I'm really hoping SEGA will ditch denuvo for Yakuza & Sonic titles, they did ditch it when it came with Sonic Mania Plus

fingers crossed less games with drms in future is a continuing trend :)
and happy christmas too :)

It seems to be going that way.
In 2023, 53 new games launched with Denuvo.
In 2024, that dropped to 43.
In 2025, it’s down to 30.

At the same time, Denuvo was removed from 15 games in 2024 and 22 games in 2025. You have an explosive growth of the video game market (19k games released on Steam this year) and online DRM solutions such as Denuvo keep shrinking.

Hopefully the new year will have less games with Denuvo and more removals haha 😁

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone!

Merry Christmas & A Happy New Year!

I'm wishing everyone an excellent end of year!

In any case, thanks for the heads up! @JetPackAndButlers

They added it back? Would you look at that... the Astragon wannabe also imitates their inane DRM practices.

https://steamdb.info/depot/2604481/ City Transport Simulator added Denuvo back

@Pillman I still ignore their games even when they remove Denuvo because they replace it with Enigma. They're still treating me like a criminal even though I'm a paying customer and pirates have a better experience. I won't pirate their games but there's no way I'm supporting them. Capcom is run by fools.

@Pillman I stopped purchasing any games from crapcom after they started introducing enigma even in older releases which didn't have it in the beginning. It's up to you how much you entrust your machine to a company (crapcom) that resorted to put actual rootkits in their past releases.

Speaking of Capcom,do you guys buy their games if/when they remove Denuvo,even though it's replaced by Enigma ? Or just ignore them still ?

https://eo.steamhost.cc/app/3500390/Mega_Man_Star_Force_Legacy_Collection/

Here it is. Has Denuvo. Oh well, shame. These are some pretty good games.

Speaking of Denuvo, Mega Man Star Force Collection will use it. Stated on the store page, Classic Capcom, Classic...

After 10 years, better late than never i suppose.
Mention of Denuvo was removed from the store page so thats confirmation

A surprise for sure, although a welcome one. I would love to know who cared enough to come back and hit the switch so I know where to send the chocolates.

Just Cause 3 removed Denuvo!

Just Cause 3 just removed Denuvo, better late than ever i suppose

Hahaha, you got that right

City Transport Simulator just removed Denuvo in its latest update. and i’m sure nobody noticed

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://eo.steamhost.cc/steamcommunity_com/app/4115450/discussions/0/691995483855428955/

https://eo.steamhost.cc/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://eo.steamhost.cc/steamcommunity_com/games/1817230/announcements/detail/542250073650626841

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://eo.steamhost.cc/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://eo.steamhost.cc/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.