{"id":85071,"date":"2026-06-29T02:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T06:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=85071"},"modified":"2026-06-29T05:54:22","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T09:54:22","slug":"dead-or-alive-6-last-round-pummeled-by-negative-reviews-as-koei-tecmo-asks-players-to-rebuy-dlc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=85071","title":{"rendered":"Dead or Alive 6 Last Round Pummeled by Negative Reviews as Koei Tecmo Asks Players to Rebuy DLC"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Dead or Alive 6 Last Round<\/a> has fallen to “Mostly Negative” reviews on Steam as players warn of persistent bugs, lacking features, and a requirement to rebuy some previously owned DLC.<\/p>\n

At the time of this story’s publication, only a staggering 23% percent of ratings for the PC version of the 3D fighting game are positive following its June 24, 2026, launch. It all stems from a variety of criticisms being lobbed against the re-release, as veteran players and newcomers alike demand fixes.<\/p>\n

When Dead or Alive 6 Last Round arrived last week, it replaced the now-delisted original 2019 version of the game<\/a>. Koei Tecmo and Team Ninja positioned the new version as a slight upgrade that bundles in new features, with the promise that new DLC is also in development.<\/p>\n

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Priced at $40, it also includes five previously released add-on characters, as well as five new costumes. A free-to-play version, subtitled “Core Fighters,” is also available but does not include the story mode and limits the roster to Kasumi, Marie Rose, Honoka, and NiCO.<\/p>\n

In the seven years since its first launch, the game has accumulated a list of 440 DLCs, and although a portion of that includes bundle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dead or Alive 6 Last Round has fallen to “Mostly Negative” reviews on Steam as players warn of persistent bugs, lacking features, and a requirement to rebuy some previously owned DLC. At the time of this story’s publication, only a staggering 23% percent of ratings for the PC version of the 3D fighting game are…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":85073,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85071"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85075,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85071\/revisions\/85075"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/85073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}