Yakuza Online is a free-to-play multiplayer action role-playing game with a third-person view in the Yakuza universe. The events of the game take place immediately after the completion of Yakuza 6: The Song of Life. The protagonist is Ishiban Kasuga, a man released from prison after 17 years of imprisonment, who goes against the Omi alliance and seeks to find the traitors who ruined his life.