Hey everyone, Denuvo has been removed from Hi-Fi Rush. From the games affected by the studio closures, Deathloop and Redfall still have Denuvo, so we'll have to see what will happen with those, if anything.

Proof: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1817230/view/542250073650626840

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1817230/HiFi_RUSH/

Hey everyone, Denuvo has been removed from Company of Heroes 3, but it still seems to have some sort of online DRM that doesn't allow booting the game while offline.

Proof for the removal: https://steamdb.info/depot/1677281/history/?changeid=M:6570899222338065634

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1677280/Company_of_Heroes_3/

Hey everyone, Denuvo has been removed from Onimusha 2 and Enigma has been added in its place.

Proof: https://steamdb.info/depot/3046601/history/?changeid=M:146428536415178101

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3046600/Onimusha_2_Samurais_Destiny/

Hey everyone, Denuvo has been removed from Dead Island 2.

Proof: https://steamdb.info/depot/934702/history/?changeid=M:8002347731515535596

https://store.steampowered.com/app/934700/Dead_Island_2/

Hey everyone, you might remember this game and company from two previous announcements I made about them.

I have linked them both below but I also want to remind you here what happened.

This company released their first game, called Game Dev Tycoon in 2012 and uploaded a tampered with version to pirate sites, trying to use this to prove how many sales are being lost through piracy (because as we all know, every cracked copy download = one lost sale, or no we don't, because we are not stupid). I'm sorry, they were trying to prove how "stolen" copies = lost sales, because they are absolutely braindead and don't know basic law and the difference between copying and stealing.

After that, they claimed over 93% of the people that played the game pirated it. And after that fiasco, the game ended up selling millions of copies and yet, to this day they are still playing the victim.

Fast forward to their next game, Tavern Keeper. They announced this game will have Denuvo, after which they created an FAQ on their forums full of misinformation. They also created another thread supposedly for discussing their decision to include Denuvo, then they proceeded to delete almost every post made in it and banning several people. Then they even deleted the thread itself and opened a new one, then deleted posts, and so on.

The rest of the information will be in the announcements I made before, but an important point here is that Patrick, one of the heads of the studio, is the one behind all this. He actively lied, gaslighted people, deleted constructive criticism, posts providing data against Denuvo, was condescending and much more. He's done this for over a year.

Now, back to the current time, they decided to remove Denuvo before release, without making a single statement about the whole fiasco that's been going on for over a year.

As you probably know, when Denuvo is removed before release I remove the review entirely. But since this company is even worse than Funcom, the review will stay up for this game (and will continue to be Not recommended), though it will of course be edited to explain Denuvo is not in it anymore and why the review is still there.

Here are the previous announcements:
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/DenuvoWatch/announcements/detail/6946328338752818079
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/DenuvoWatch/announcements/detail/6946328338760810735

Here is the announcement for the removal: https://steamcommunity.com/app/436780/discussions/0/579397338090815512/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/436780/Tavern_Keeper/