Denuvo removed from Dead by Daylight and FINAL FANTASY TACTICS – The Ivalice Chronicles

Behaviour Interactive and Square Enix have removed Denuvo from Dead by Daylight and FINAL FANTASY TACTICS – The Ivalice Chronicles.

Dead by Daylight was released on PC in 2016. And now, almost a decade later, its developer has decided to remove Denuvo. On the other hand, FINAL FANTASY TACTICS – The Ivalice Chronicles came out in September 2025. This means that it took Square Enix almost a year to remove it.

Square Enix has removed Devuvo from a lot of its latest PC releases. For instance, the publisher has removed it from DRAGON QUEST I & II HD-2D Remake. In December 2025, it also removed it from Just Cause 3. Not only that, but it has 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.

Another publisher that has removed Denuvo from its PC games is 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.

Those are the two publishers that have removed Denuvo from a lot of their PC games. However, this does not mean that other publishers have not removed it from some 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.

Then we have Bandai Namco that has removed it from CODE VEIN 2, Tekken 7, and NARUTO TO BORUTO: SHINOBI STRIKER. IO Interactive has removed Denuvo from 007 First Light. Bethesda’s Wolfenstein Youngblood, Ghostwire: Tokyo, Doom Eternal, and Doom: The Dark Ages no longer have it. And finally, Warner Bros has removed it from Mortal Kombat 11, Gotham Knights, and Back 4 Blood.

As I’ve already said, I don’t mind publishers using Denuvo if they plan to remove it later. Square Enix and Capcom have been doing exactly that. The other publishers I mentioned above have only removed Denuvo from some of their games. So, I hope they all follow Capcom’s and Square Enix’s example.

Stay tuned for more!

John Papadopoulos

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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