How to uncensor the Steam version of Sakura Swim Club

Sakura Spirit developer Winged Cloud has unleashed their first full-blown erogame on Steam, Sakura Swim Club.  Read on to learn how to patch the ero in for the full experience.

WARNING: The Sakura series is terrible.  If you're looking for sexy anime games, School Days and Shiny Days from JAST USA are fully-animated interactive anime with better story AND sex than Sakura Swim Club.  You have been warned!

Two digital versions of Sakura Swim Club are available: the full game on Nutaku and a cut version on Steam without the adult content.  A free official patch released by Winged Cloud is available to add the adult content from the adult version to the Steam version.

Step-by-step guide to install the adult content patch for the Steam version of Sakura Swim Club (remember, you can skip all this and just buy the Nutaku version instead!):

1. Buy Sakura Swim Club from Steam and install it.
2. Download the free official patch from Winged Cloud's Patreon page.  Here's the direct link (valid as of 11/11/15).  Use this slower temporary mirror if the official link is down.
3. Extract the compressed archive Sakura_swim_Club_patch.rar (108 MB).  You'll need to install an extraction program that can handle .rar archives.  I recommend 7-Zip (if you're confused and don't know which version to download, Windows users click here).
4. Once extracted, you'll see two files: assets.rpa (30.9 MB) and archive.rpa (80.2 MB).  Copy these two files to your game folder.  By default this will be either:
1. C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Sakura Swim Club\game
2. C:\Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common\Sakura Swim Club\game
5. There will be an assets.rpa and archive.rpa file already in this directory.  Overwrite these old files with the new ones.
6. Congratulations, the sex scenes in Sakura Swim Club are now unlocked.  Play through the game normally to see them.  The scenes occur late in the game.  You may want to start a new game (rather than load a save file) to make sure the scenes appear.

Those interested in this game should also check out the dungeon-crawling ero-game Sakura Dungeon.  Unlike Sakura Swim Club, it's actually decent!

Those interested in cute RPG battles and animated ero should check out free-to-play Kamihime Project.

If you liked this guide, check out other adult visual novels on J-List, browse my other articles in the Popular Posts section, and follow me on Twitter.

Other relevant articles:

• [In-Depth Review] Sakura Dungeon: Explains how to install the uncensor patch and provides a wealth of other information about that game and related titles.
• Eroge with a censored official English release: A comprehensive list of English-language eroge that have had adult content altered or removed, with links to uncensor patches when available.

Mirrors

I created a temporary mirror of the adult content patch since the official link went down for a few days.  I repacked the files as a ZIP archive so users wouldn't have to install 7-Zip to decompress it.  Note that the mirror(s) will eventually break.  I won't be maintaining them unless the official link goes down again.

MediaFire (11/8/15)