We announced late last year that Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 Scarlet will be getting a free to play edition on the Nintendo Switch. Now that time has come where you can enjoy the volleyball shenanigans with the girls for free!

Arriving last week on the Japanese eShop, you can now download the “Basic Edition” of the game, which gives you full reign of the 14 day holiday, but only with Kasumi. You can purchase more characters through the eShop much like the Dead or Alive Core Fighters free to play series allows.

Don’t have a Japanese Switch? Then fret not because you can access it in English on whatever region your Nintendo Switch is from. All you have to do is make sure you have a separate Nintendo profile set up and attach a My Nintendo account with the location of Japan. Then when you boot the eShop up with this profile you’ll be brought into the Japanese eShop. When there you can download the DOAX3 Scarlet Basic Edition. Once it is all downloaded you can boot the game up with your regular profile and it will auto launch with English translation (still voiced in Japanese).

So if you have been curious by the still blocked Western release of Dead or Alive Xtreme 3, you can now jump in and give it a go!

Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 Scarlet is out now on PS4 and Nintendo Switch in Japan. Only the Nintendo Switch has the Basic Edition, and is also uncensored compared to the PS4 version. The title will take up 4.4GB of your SD card.

What are your thoughts on Dead or Alive Xtreme 3 Scarlet getting a free-to-play edition on Switch? Have you given it a go? Let us know in those comments!

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