Sorry for a couple announcements in a row, but there's been some good news regarding third-party DRM being removed lately. Square Enix has recently removed Denuvo from the following three titles:

• The DioField Chronicle[steamdb.info] as of last month.
  
• Valkyrie Elysium[steamdb.info] as of around two weeks ago.
  
• Triangle Strategy[steamdb.info] as of a week and two days ago.

Now someone just needs to remind them they made Left Alive and are bizarrely still paying for Denuvo on it and we could add a fourth to the list, lol

Hope these last couple announcements find you well!

Good news this past week, as Capcom has removed Denuvo[steamdb.info] from Resident Evil Village!

However, this is coupled with the bad news that Capcom's recent release of the Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection Volumes 1 & 2 inexplicably have Denuvo included. It's possible, and maybe even likely, this will be removed at a later date in a similar fashion, but we will have to keep an eye on this until then.

In the meantime, if you would like a DRM free alternative to the Mega Man Battle Network games, I'd highly recommend the indie title One Step From Eden, which is conveniently half-off as part of GOG's current indie spring sale.

You might also consider EndCycle VS, though I can't vouch for whether it is DRM free or not (i.e. it may use Steamworks at a minimum).

We have now hit the 1,000 games curated mark! While the Steam group page says we may only have 1,000 games curated, I decided to test whether this was still true, and it appears it no longer is!

We now have 1,002 games curated, and so far as I can tell, no older reviews have been removed. What the upper limit is now, it's hard to say, but thanks so much to everyone that's contributed!

That said, to play it safe, I would also recommend adding the tags DRM Free to games that can be played without the Steam client (while still adding lines to reviews as already requested). I've already begun doing so with those games I've found to be Steam DRM-Free, and have begun adding them to the list DRM Free on Steam to help folks out that visit the curator page.

Thanks again everyone!

Moving forward, if you are curating games and own them on Steam, please consider checking if they can be played without running Steam at all and add this to your review.

There are hidden DRM Free games on Steam that don't use Steam DRM whatsoever, and where possible, we should strive to highlight this. For those interested in adding this to their reviews, here is the method for testing:

1. Go to your library, right click whichever game you wish to review, highlight manage, then click browse local files.
2. In the opened window, locate the game's executable file, typically this will be [gamename].exe and location will vary game by game, e.g. [gamename]\bin\[gamename].exe.
3. Exit Steam completely, do not simply switch to Offline Mode.
4. Try to run the game's executable file. If it attempts to launch Steam and refuses to launch otherwise, there's a good chance it requires Steam DRM or some component of Steamworks.

In your reviews, if the game can run without Steam, you may simply add a line like:
"This game can be played entirely without the Steam client."

See the Umurangi Generation review for an example.

Thanks so much for your contributions, and I hope you've all been well!

As PC Gamer reports...Devil May Cry 5 is finally as radical as it was meant to be, unleashed from awful DRM!