I'm waiting to see if Ace Combat 8 will have Denuvo. With how Bandai Namco has been acting, it's a safe bet.

I think it's pretty much a given with SEGA. All the other Total War Warhammer titles still have Denuvo but thanks for bringing that title to our attention.

I think Total War: WARHAMMER 40,000 it's just a matter of time to see the DENUVO tag pop in.. It's SEGA ! But, will see.

Pragmata has Denuvo… of course it does, it’s from Capcom

Thanks for the heads up. Thread is up there - feel free to contribute, there's always a chance all the company needs to give up on using Denuvo is a little push: https://steamcommunity.com/app/4115450/discussions/0/691995483855428955/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4115450/Phantom_Blade_Zero/

Phantom Blade Zero Steam page is up, Denuvo confirmed cuz of course

Total War Three Kingdoms and Pharaoh Dynasties are coming to GOG DRM Free, and Sega being Sega they aren't going to remove Denuvo from the Steam versions, just like Yakuza Like a Dragon did.

Well that's disappointing. It's a game that I've wanted to purchase, but had written off due to Denuvo. With its new publisher removing it, I thought I'd finally be able to.

But I won't support any 3rd party DRM, and a mystery custom one makes me even more uncomfortable. Because I don't know what it's doing, how it might restrict me, or if it may simply stop working altogether one day in the future.

Oh well. My backlog is big enough as it is. I'll live.

The "Solution" being a custom DRM wrapped in VMProtect, found when searching through the game executable.

Thanks for keeping an eye out.
That Krafton announcement is clear as mud and implies that they believe DRM helps.
A few posters have already confirmed that they replaced Denuvo with their own in-house solution. It remains to be seen whether it will have any adverse effects.

Denuvo support for the PC version of Hi-Fi RUSH is scheduled to end at 00:00(KST) on January 16, 2026. Please note that even after Denuvo is removed, the game’s own anti-tampering features will remain active and will not affect normal gameplay.

This adjustment is intended to provide a more stable and efficient service environment. We sincerely appreciate all players who continue to support the game through legitimate use.

https://steamcommunity.com/games/1817230/announcements/detail/542250073650626841

I now see that while I was checking SteamDB and posting this comment, they themselves posted a news item confirming its removal XD

An update was just pushed out for Hi-Fi Rush to reflect Krafton as its new publisher. SteamDB reports the executable decreasing in size by 316.93 MiB. I believe Denuvo has finally been removed.

@GORDAO: Yes. And like every EA sports title, the whole point is planned obsolescence: they have no intention to ever remove it and will delist those games in order to push you towards the more recent, more expensive versions they release every year.

F1 2025 still have Denuvo??

Denuvo has been removed from Onimusha 2: Samurai's Destiny,replaced with Enigma

That's an issue with every place where I posted a link to the group unfortunately, and while I'll try to fix them, I'll definitely be missing some. I'll do the Funcom ones today at least.

Should probably update the Full Review links for Funcom games like Conan Exiles. Because it still appears to use the old "DenuvoGames" Group Name

They can't keep half-assing it like that, though - they'll have to choose whether they want to be more like SEGA or more like CDPR at some point. The current way, they'll get none of the usual goodwill benefit from publishing DRM-free games which is supposed to make people pirate your games less due to offering a good service - not while they keep using the controversial Denuvo at the other end of their supply chain.

CAPCOM has reached that "schizophernic corporation" stage a while ago. When a company gets larger, you're bound to have some internal disagreements between managers sooner or later. While it keeps growing by about a hundred employees every year, their CEO isn't really invested into the day to day and is more interested in managing their huge wine estate, which means the company has no clear direction on the issue of DRM/preservation. And it shows:
On one hand they claim that mods are like piracy: damaging for their reputation, but on the other hand they release their games on GOG which has embraced mods, ownership, and the DRM-free model.

While Capcom still continues to release Denuvo infested games on Steam, they released RE1 HD Remaster & RE0 on GOG on the 30th October

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2852190/Monster_Hunter_Stories_3_Twisted_Reflection/ Another for the list boss, Denuvo Anti-Tamper 5 machine limit. Listed right there on the page.

Anti-Cheat? It's single player 🤦‍♂️ Are they filling out the boxes at random again?
Thanks for the info!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3764200/Resident_Evil_Requiem/ Denuvo Anti Cheat + Denuvo Anti Tamper, Capcom is on a roll once more :P

There's usually no official indication, unless the publisher feels like disclosing it. Some countries have rules in place to force disclosure but do not enforce it very strictly.

New here. When the Denuvo Removed is added is there any indications provided that a new DRM has replaced it such as with Capcom and Enigma? My apologies in advance if this has been discussed before.

the eula is very sneaky too: (if its the one i looked at)

Not surprising coming from Ubisoft but I'm not sure why we didn't have it in the curator already. Thanks for keeping an eye out!

Ubisoft Uno has Denuvo.

It's located inside the "GameAssembly.dll" in the game folder along with dbdata.dll, can be viewed on SteamDB.

@lucifer WPF Send me links or screenshots of the offending material and I'll take a look.

The user QuantumX is a scammer in the community messaging individuals in this group.
Running the old "you bought this rust item but didnt pay" scheme. I dont even play rust, I have like 2 minutes in the game so that was funny.

Probably should ban him.

nice work !

The review will be updated shortly. Thanks for keeping an eye out

Here's 2 I found aside from this group if it helps
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/NoToEAC


https://steamcommunity.com/groups/fckdrm

As I said before, I'm only one person and I can't create a group for everything, especially since I'm doing all this for free and I work long days and weeks, so I don't have more time. Even on this I don't spend a lot of time right now, since I'm quite happy with what we have so far, though I do have more plans for the future.
I'm still working on the logistics side of the website though, website which will include a lot of anti consumer practices, not only Denuvo and not only gaming related.

But if anyone creates any group, I'll be more than happy to advertise it to give them a boost at the start.

There are other groups that cover DRM, what happen to them?

I would suggest to create a group "DRM-Watch" after Denuvo Watch. Maybe this will be attension to put the Games that uses Steam-DRM. maybe this helps :)

So I discovered disappointingly that contrary to the original, Hades 2 has a DRM on Steam and so far, the developers have completely ignored my requests for comment. They probably think it's a minor issue but feel free to hammer that thread to prove them wrong: https://steamcommunity.com/app/1145350/discussions/1/601916423125826841/?tscn=1758972603

Great find. That would exactly fall into what I wrote.
It makes sense Irdeto approached the new top executives, and showed them how they "can" earn more.

Looks like Bamco just had a big change at the top level. Former CEO and few key posts retired in April 2025. Also, the board made the top executives salary more dependent on results, like 30% fixed 70% based on sales, which could explain the sudden change in politics.

Yea, I don't get it why Bamco started to use them after 5+ years...

I can think only that somebody at Irdeto gave them offer too good to refuse like really big discount, plus showed them how they are "losing" sales as Denuvo games can't be bypassed for many years.

Bandai has really become trash... now it's a game with Denuvo drm? As Julius says, if I don't buy it, the discount is bigger.

I've contacted Bamco for comment. Let's hope they can offer a bit of transparency, at least.

That's a shame. Looks like Bamco is going back to the ignore list.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2362060/CODE_VEIN_II/

Mentioned on the store page. Even if I have no interest in the Code Vein games, I'm really not liking the resurgence of Denuvo in Bamco's titles.

yeah theres a lot of honest gamers who buy games and dont like being punished for it

We just passed 6k members! Congratulations everyone! Let's push anti-preservation tools back into the darkness where they belong.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2499860/DRAGON_QUEST_VII_Reimagined/

Mentioned on the store page.

Oh well, the price will be lower 6 months after release.