Denuvo Was Cracked in Crimson Desert and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora in One Day
Aleksandr Manin
The cracker voices38 hit two Denuvo-protected games on the same day: Crimson Desert and Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora. In Crimson Desert, the bypass makes Denuvo think the player has a valid license, but it does not fully remove the protection.
That means the crack still leaves Denuvo running in the background, so this is a bypass rather than a complete removal. In practice, the game can be launched without the protection acting as a full barrier, but the system itself remains in place.
Crimson Desert was released on PC in March 2026 and took less than five months to crack. Pearl Abyss added Denuvo just one week before release, which made the timing of the protection's fall especially notable.
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora took much longer to fall. The game arrived on PC in December 2023 and held up for about two and a half years before being cracked. It was also one of the best-looking PC games of 2023, ran on the Snowdrop Engine, and Ubisoft added official support for NVIDIA DLSS 4 and AMD FSR 4.0 in December 2025.
So is a Denuvo bypass that still leaves the protection in the background meaningfully different from a full crack?
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