My 5 favorite 'cozy' games that don't actually look like cozy games Give your eyes a little break from aesthetically-mandated adorableness while still having chilled out experiences. PC Gamer · Jan 21
Why I love driving around oddball Japan in Promise Mascot Agency Bring me that horizon. PC Gamer · Nov 9, 2025
Absurd Japan-themed delivery sim Promise Mascot Agency just added a whole bunch of grinding, but don't worry, it's the good, Tony Hawk kind of grinding The Prepare to Grind update also adds time trial challenges and difficulty modes. PC Gamer · Aug 9, 2025
I pride myself on keeping up with Steam's under-the-radar gems, but April was packed with enough new games to keep me busy for the rest of 2025 One of the busiest months in years meant that not every studio could be a winner. PC Gamer · May 7, 2025
There are dozens of us: Paradise Killer's new open-world management sim aimed straight at Yakuza sickos is off to a great start on Steam with 98% positive reviews Promise Mascot Agency is as weird as it gets, and it turns out there are weirdos everywhere GamesRadar · Apr 19, 2025
'Promise Mascot Agency' Is A Deliriously Absurd, Must-Play Management Sim This offbeat title about a disgraced yakuza recruiting a ragtag band of bizarre mascots is already one of the best of the year. Inverse · Apr 16, 2025
Promise Mascot Agency review: Showa-era Japanese retro vibes, modern game design chores What if one of Yakuza's wild mini-games broke free? Creative Bloq · Apr 7, 2025
Promise Mascot Agency review: "Yakuza management mechanics are messy, but I'm won over by its truly immaculate bizarre vibes" Promise Mascot Agency review: "Yakuza management mechanics are messy, but I'm won over by its truly immaculate bizarre vibes" GamesRadar · Apr 7, 2025
Promise Mascot Agency review Oversee living mascots in a cursed Japanese town. PC Gamer · Apr 7, 2025
How Ikumi Nakamura's 'art bible' helped create Promise Mascot Agency's grotesque mascots, and why collaboration in indie game development is vital Kaizen Game Works' developers discusses working with the former Tango Gameworks artist. Creative Bloq · Mar 15, 2025
Yakuza and living, breathing mascots collide in this adventure that has you battling a "normal sized door", faulty cash registers, and a playful dog Promise Mascot Agency is the Paradise Killer dev's latest, and another cult classic in the making: a yakuza love letter that might be one of the strangest games I've ever played GamesRadar · Feb 10, 2025
30 Years Later, PlayStation Giant Departs, But it May Not Be the Last We've Seen of Him After 30 years, Shuhei Yoshida celebrated his last day at PlayStation today, but also revealed an unexpected new job. Inverse · Jan 15, 2025
Promise Mascot Agency, the 'world's first open world mascot management crime drama,' is all that and somehow more Hands-on with what we can only hope is the strangest management sim of 2025. PC Gamer · Aug 13, 2024
PC Gamer · Aug 1, 2024 Promise Mascot Agency is a game where you can entice a big, sobbing tofu guy with employee benefits, and I think that's beautiful The next game from the studio behind Paradise Killer just got a new gameplay overview, and it's spectacularly odd.