Now here is something that really made me go “huh”? Last week, Konami released its free-to-play baseball game, eBaseball: PRO SPIRIT. And, although this is an F2P game, the company has used the Denuvo anti-tamper tech.
The reason this surprised me is because Silent Hill 2 Remake and Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater did not use it. So, why has Konami used Denuvo in a free-to-play game? It makes no sense IMO.
I’ve also checked out the Steam store page for METAL GEAR SOLID: MASTER COLLECTION Vol.2 and the good news is that Denuvo is not listed. The bad news is that since Konami has added it in one of its games, it may also add it to that a week or a month before it comes out.
Anyway, since this is an F2P game, you can at least download and try it. Right now, it has Mostly Positive reviews on Steam. I haven’t played it, so I don’t know whether this is a pay-to-win game or not.
Speaking of Denuvo, cracked voices38 has cracked Doom: The Dark Ages. and Assassin’s Creed Mirage: Valley of Memory. From what I’ve heard, the cracker has figured out a way to crack almost all of the 2025 games that used Denuvo. However, there is no word yet on whether he will be able to crack the games that will come out in 2026.
For what it’s worth, some publishers have removed Denuvo from their older titles. One of them is Square Enix, which has recently removed it from DRAGON QUEST I & II HD-2D Remake. In December 2025, they also removed it from Just Cause 3. SE has also 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.
Then we have Capcom. 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.
As I’ve reported, other companies have also removed Denuvo from several of their games. 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.
Another publisher that has removed Denuvo from some of its PC games is Warner Bros. Warner Bros has removed it from Gotham Knights, Back 4 Blood and Mortal Kombat 11. However, Mortal Kombat 1 is still using it. My guess is that the publisher will remove it once it releases the next main part in the Mortal Kombat series. Suicide Squad and Hogwarts Legacy are also still using it, even though they came out in 2023 and 2024, respectively.
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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