Assassin’s Creed Shadows is the latest victim of voices38, who has managed to crack its Denuvo anti-tamper protection. The game was released in March 2025. From what I know, it was never cracked by EMPRESS. Thus, it took over a year to crack.
The previous Denuvo-protected game that was cracked was Atomic Heart. As such, the gap between these two Denuvo cracks was just 5-6 days.
Now, I know there was a HYPERVISOR bypass for AC: Shadows. However, I’m not a big fan of those bypasses.
To use the HYPERVISOR bypass, you have to disable some security features in Windows. As I’ve said numerous times, that is a no-no for me, no matter how much you wanted to play Assassin’s Creed Shadows. With the voices38 crack, you don’t have to do anything like that.
And yes, the voices38 crack is also a bypass. It does not completely remove Denuvo. All the Denuvo cracks we’ve gotten so far, from both EMPRESS and voices38, are bypasses. In other words, Denuvo will still run in the background.
What really matters here is how safe these cracks are. These work like your typical cracks. You just drop the crack in the game folder, and that’s it. You don’t have to mess with your operating system in any way.
As always, we won’t allow any links to the crack. So, if you share any download links in the Comment section, your comment will be removed. So, don’t bother doing it. I’m pretty sure that you will be able to find the cracked version quite easily via a simple Google search. Still, this doesn’t mean we can’t talk about it. In my opinion, it is quite fascinating witnessing the cracking scene, or should I say voices38, cracking Denuvo games.
It’s a shame Ubisoft is not one of those publishers who have removed Denuvo from their older games. Take, for example, Square Enix. Square Enix has removed it from DRAGON QUEST I & II HD-2D Remake. In December 2025, they also removed it from Just Cause 3. Not only that, but they have removed it from The Diofield Chronicle, VALKYRIE ELYSIUM, TRIANGLE STRATEGY, LIVE A LIVE, and Forspoken. Moreover, both Octopath Traveler and its sequel no longer use it. And that’s not all. In May 2024, SE removed it from Star Ocean The Second Story R. Finally, in March 2025, the publisher removed it from Final Fantasy 16.
Capcom is another publisher that has removed Denuvo from a lot of its games. In November 2025, they removed it from Onimusha 2: Samurai’s Destiny. Monster Hunter Rise, Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin, and Resident Evil Village are also Denuvo-free as we speak. Similarly, Resident Evil 2 Remake and Resident Evil 3 Remake no longer use it. In July 2025, the Japanese team also removed it from Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess. Plus, Capcom has recently removed it from Resident Evil 4 Remake.
In March 2023, KRAFTON removed Denuvo from The Callisto Protocol. NEOWIZ has also removed it from its Souls-like game, Lies of P. In October 2024, Gearbox removed it from Homeworld 3, too.
And that’s not all. Bethesda’s Wolfenstein Youngblood, Ghostwire: Tokyo, and Doom Eternal no longer have it. Then we have Bandai Namco, which has removed it from Tekken 7 and NARUTO TO BORUTO: SHINOBI STRIKER. Plus, Warner Bros has removed it from Gotham Knights, Back 4 Blood, and Mortal Kombat 11.
Stay tuned for more!
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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