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Promise Mascot Agency
Jun. 1st, 2026 02:46 pmPromise Mascot Agency (on Steam here) is a retro nostalgia third-person driving sim / visual novel / card deck builder where you play as a yakuza enforcer running a talent agency for sentient mascot characters out of a love hotel in a small rural town, and...
...and you know what, let's just end this post there. This game is like someone took the best parts of the Yakuza series and boiled them down into concentrate, and it has some of the most entertaining writing I've seen in a video game in a good long time. I don't dislike Dispatch, but I also feel like Promise Mascot Agency is what Dispatch wishes it could be. It also has strong Persona 4 vibes, but if Persona 4 had a difficult time during the pandemic and came out completely cracked on the other side. I'm legit surprised by how good this game is.
...and you know what, let's just end this post there. This game is like someone took the best parts of the Yakuza series and boiled them down into concentrate, and it has some of the most entertaining writing I've seen in a video game in a good long time. I don't dislike Dispatch, but I also feel like Promise Mascot Agency is what Dispatch wishes it could be. It also has strong Persona 4 vibes, but if Persona 4 had a difficult time during the pandemic and came out completely cracked on the other side. I'm legit surprised by how good this game is.
