Yuki Enterprise

Yuki Enterprise at a Glance

If you are browsing PlayPile to find out more about Yuki Enterprise, you will see a Japanese developer that operated under this name from 2000 through 2020. This studio released eighteen games as a developer but never acted as a publisher for the titles listed on our site. Their work spans many years, with seventeen of their projects appearing in the 2000s and only one release in the 2020s. The company is now known as Team Arcana, though it operated under different names like Examu Inc. during its active years. Their portfolio shows a clear focus on specific genres rather than trying to cover every market. Card and board games make up the largest portion of their output with ten titles. They also have four fighting games and three arcade entries. Other genres like simulators, RPGs, and turn-based strategy games appear only once or twice in their catalog. This narrow focus is evident when looking at their platform distribution. The PlayStation 2 holds nine of their releases, while the original PlayStation accounts for five. Arcade cabinets and the PlayStation 3 each have four titles listed. They also made several moves to PC, PlayStation 4, and PSP platforms, but their presence there was much smaller compared to Sony systems. When you look at their quality ratings on IGDB, the numbers suggest a mixed bag of reception. The average score across the three rated titles they have is 68.2 out of 100. None of their games reached the great tier with scores above 80. All three rated entries fall into the good range between 60 and 79. Their highest-rated work includes Samurai Shodown V Special from 2004, which scored 73. They followed this up with Samurai Shodown VI in 2005 at a score of 66.4 and the original Samurai Shodown V in 2003 at 65.2. Recent activity has been minimal compared to their peak years. Their most recent listed release is a version of Samurai Shodown V from June 2020, which aligns with their rebranding to Team Arcana that same year. Most of their other recent titles date back to the mid-2000s, such as Tsuushin Taisen Mahjong: Touryuumon in January 2006.

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