Are any left? Or just list of game infected with denuvo?

Why crimson desert on list 5 time?

Edit: also NBA 2K26 and SHINOBI: Art of Vengeance 2 time.

I look at this list without seeing a title I care about, I am not disapointed, infact I am happy.

It is kinda of great that games that are worth playing don't have denuvo, to me it almost feels like a nothing burger that denuvo got cracked

Sorry my bad..It was a bit of a manual job and I did not check it properly.

I'm still not basically disabling most of my PC's security to play pirated games though.

switch to Linux or dual boot?

How effectively does that work? Can you spoof the Ring -1 permissions? Maybe I should set up single-GPU passthrough.

Hypervisor bypass doesn't work on Linux. Gotta be on Windows if you want to use it.

Putting anti cheats in single player games should be illegal.

But Denuvo is DRM software to prevent privacy, is not an anti-cheat :?

“Only the games I care about are good”

I dont know what i was suggesting. Bypass (as others have said) only works in W

DRM should be illegal. If we have devices that can copy information instantly, it’s not our fault that it’s incompatible with capitalism - seems like capitalism is incompatible with nature. Find a new business model.

Anyone have luck running these on linux? I tried the Crimson Desert one but Bottles couldn't handle the install and I didn't bother to try harder

Edit: nevermind, saw another comment saying these cracks are a no go on linux

Bypasses are not “cracks” 🤦‍♀️

More like "AAA games are a big pile of shit, and only AAA games bother trying to fuck over the customer with Denuvo".

Find a new business model

They did, running everything on their machines and charging us monthly to use it.

there are a lot of games on here that are neither AAA or big piles of shit... you're just not interested in them.

The new business model is cloud subscription gaming. You sure you want to argue for that?

Oh goodie I can't wait to play Redfall

They have more than one product. They provide anti-cheat as well as anti-tamper

Is this actually true? I didn't hear anyone talking about this until now.

"I choose to only care about the games without shitty DRM"

Wine is user space, hypervisor is at least kernel level. Cannot install windows hypervisor in wine.

Bean Soup Theory in full swing. I fully believe that algorithmic feeds have heavily contributed to the rapid decline in reading comprehension. One of the biggest parts of reading comprehension is being able to identify the target audience for a piece of work. And most of the time, the answer is not “me”. In previous decades, if you saw something that didn’t pertain to you, you would move the fuck on.

But algorithms changed that. People got used to having feeds that are laser-focused on their personal interests. And this has led to a decline in reading comprehension, as people simply aren’t using that part of the skill anymore. So now when they encounter something that isn’t meant for them, they have a tendency to try to make it about them.

The phrase “bean soup theory” comes from a recipe for bean soup, which was full of angry commenters asking things like “but what if I don’t like beans” and “what would you replace the beans with if you don’t like eating them?” The obvious answer is that if you don’t like beans, don’t make bean soup. This recipe is clearly not meant for you. You should move the fuck on to find a recipe you’ll like. But those commenters are so used to algorithmic feeds that they have lost the ability to recognize when something is not aimed at them. So instead of going “oh, this isn’t about me” they got angry and tried to make it about them.

To bring it back to the main post, there are several incredible games on this list. Many of them are absolutely worth playing. But the above commenter had to make it about them, instead of going “eh, not interested” and just moving on.

yup. Does not work on Linux.

Me when I don't buy any games sold through any launcher DRMs, I only have DRM-free thingies. Bliss.

still sounds like capitalism to me

I am also considering tbe price of the minimum requirement hardware

It may have other nefarious uses but it is primarily anti-cheat software.

... No, Denuvo is "anti-tamper" software, meaning DRM primarily with anti-cheat as a bonus.

According to their own site it is both apparently. Either way it is used for both purposes, and for single player that makes no sense.

Well, I can wait for those games' developers to stop losing their mind and remove the cancer from their game. They aren't getting one cent from me, otherwise.

But one of the 2 uses does make sense for single player games.

Really? It constrains or prevents modding, which is a core part of PC gaming.

Copy protection for single player games is essentially pointless. Even GTA V let's you do what you want in single player mode because it is offline.

The only reason they might want anti tamper is to support in game purchases, which is equally senseless for single player games.

It's an antipiracy measure, not anti modding. Have you never heard of denuvo before?

Do these hypervisor bypasses work if I were to say, run the cracks under WINE or Proton? I have been waiting a long time for X Shadow Generations to either be actually playable on switch emulator without major bugs/glitches that kill it or an actual PC crack!

Edit:

Looks like I gotta wait until I get a more powerful desktop so that way I can plug in my old win10 hard drive to run this bypass. Sad days! Windows is why Linux can't have nice things! Screw you macrohard!

It also prevents modding/chesting in singleplayer games with microtransactions

To repeat myself . . . Anti piracy is pointless for single player games. Without the need for anything online game cracks don't have to work hard to bypass such copy protection. Also it is anti social, often requiring to be online just to play a purely offline game.

Do you WANT this stuff?

How is anti piracy pointless for single player games? Why does the number of players matter? Online vs offline again doesn't matter when the whole point is that the company wants to sell games rather than have people pirate them.
And don't think I'm pro denuvo or something, you just don't seem to be making sense with your criticism.

True, but i doubt any game devs are using it for that reason, it's just a side effect of the anti piracy.

If you want to prevent piracy don't make games ridiculously expensive, or block modding, or force users to be online when they shouldn't need to be.

Its the same problem TV streaming service are having. Their model worked when they priced it well and you didn't have to get 5 different services. Now that's happened privacy is well on the rise again.

It is nuts to think that copy protection for single player games makes financial sense when all it does is piss people off and encourage more piracy.

This is a list of games from which Denuvo was removed. That makes them potentially worth playing. You’re outright dismissing the entire list of games because they had Denuvo at one time.

I’m not even suggesting you support the developers, pirate away. Some of these games are good now that Denuvo was removed.

It's even in the FAQs of piracy forums. It's awesome how far Linux gaming has come!

Sonic Origins had Denuvo? Brother, they are fucking Genesis games. Anyone can play them on some Genesis emulator right now, or get the Christian Whitehead's remasters in case of 1, 2 and CD. What the were they thinking?

I've seen people implying it works. I tried Forza Horizon 6 yesterday and have not been able to get it to launch. I don't know if it actually works on Linux or if I misunderstood what they said.