Team Ninja has done it again and released thefourth season passfor its fighting gameDead or Alive 6in less than a year, making it potentially one of the most expensive current gen games on the market.
The latest season pass forDead or Alive 6was released on January 21 and dedicated fans will need to dish out $89.99 to get their hands on it. That price might seem a little high, but it isn’t even the most expensive season pass available for the game. The release of the first season pass coincided with the game’s launch on July 03, 2025, and cost $92.99. Four months laterTeam Ninjaunveiled a second pass with a price tag of $79.99, and three months after that yet another pass was made available also for $79.99.
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Each season pass does offer a large amount of content that undoubtedly required a decent amount of work to put together. The fourth pass, for example, gives players a newDead or Alive 6character and 52 new costumes, some of which were created by fans of the series in a design competition held by Team Ninja in 2019.
It’s also not mandatory to invest huge sums of money to play the game.Some costumes can be unlocked through regular gameplay and there is even afree-to-play version ofDead or Alive 6that allows players to try out some of the different gameplay modes and participate in online matches. However, only four playable characters are accessible in the Core Fighters edition and the story mode is locked.
So gamers who tire of using only Kasumi, Hitomi, Diego, and Bass in their online battles will need to purchase the game’s standard edition to gain access to additionalDead or Alive 6characters, and that will cost the usual $59.99. If they also want to enjoy some of the premium costumes and purchase all four season passes, that will bring the price of the game to a whopping $402.95.
It’s also important to note that purchasing the season passes does not give players all of the content available for the game up to that point, contrary to how season passes tend to work with other games. AdditionalDead or Alive 6content is released simultaneously to the season passes and must be purchased separately, such as the Revival Maid set that also launched on January 21, costs $19.99, and features the samemaid costumesfromDead or Alive 5.
This plethora of downloadable content might seem like a blatant money grab by Team Ninja, but the season pass offerings seem to be precisely what some fans of theDead or Alivegamesare looking for. While there are player complaints on various message boards and review sites about the amount of DLC content and the high price tag, most negative comments are about lag, connection issues, and lack of depth in other areas of the game. And in general, with or without hundreds of extra costumes, the game has received mostly positive reviews since its release.
Dead or Alive 6was released in March 2019 for PC, PS4, and Xbox One.
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