Hackers From Skidrow Claim First-Ever Full Removal of Denuvo From a Non-Unity Game
Eduard Zamikhovsky
The hacker group Skidrow has announced what it calls the first complete removal of Denuvo protection from a game not built on the Unity engine. The team managed to crack Tourist Bus Simulator.
According to Skidrow, previous attempts only bypassed the DRM rather than stripping it entirely. “We cannot overstate how fiendishly difficult is to achieve this task!” the group wrote.
The hackers say they took on the challenge at the request of a member of the piracy community. They’ve now issued a counter-challenge: take a game running the latest version of Denuvo and wipe it clean.
Still, Reddit users aren’t rushing to declare Denuvo dead. Since Tourist Bus Simulator was released back in 2018, it may be running on an older build of the DRM, making it unclear how significant this breakthrough really is.
It's a 2018 game, so tough to say how more complex Denuvo has gotten since then, but one thing has to be emphasised — it must have been an absurdly difficult and time consuming task to completely remove Denuvo from the game. Can't imagine how difficult it will be to remove it from a newer game, as their challenge states (and if it's even doable).
Now do it for a real game.
I get why people assume it's an old version of denuvo but do we know that for certain? Could be 6 or 2 years old. The latest game update was 6 months ago (not saying every update means new D)
It’s worth noting that recent September releases — Hollow Knight: Silksong, Dying Light: The Beast, and Silent Hill f — all launched without Denuvo support, which led to them being dumped online immediately.
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