Capcom celebrates the primary anniversary of Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess by ripping out its Denuvo DRM
Birthdays may be tough. They could be a celebration of our continued existence, or a grim reminder of our regular ahead march in direction of an inevitable mortality—or, within the case of Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess, a birthday can mark the event that Capcom removes the Denuvo DRM software program that is been a headache for its clients all through the final decade, in keeping with its SteamDB replace historical past (by way of DSOGaming).
Mercifully, Kunitsu-Gami’s Denuvo implementation would not appear to have been the supply of many participant complaints since its launch final July. Different Capcom video games in recent times have not been so fortunate. In 2020, Capcom pulled Denuvo from DMC5, the place informal testing discovered it had been reducing efficiency by as a lot as 25%.
In 2021, Digital Foundry examined to verify that Denuvo was answerable for comparable efficiency points in Resident Evil Village, although it wasn’t faraway from the sport till 2023. It is price noting that Monster Hunter Wilds, which continues to draw destructive Steam evaluations over ongoing efficiency points, is strapped down with each Denuvo and Capcom’s internally developed rights administration software program.
Denuvo appears to linger longer in video games from Capcom’s most well-known franchises like Monster Hunter and Resident Evil, presumably to guard gross sales numbers from piracy whereas demand stays excessive. Its elimination from Kunitsu-Gami a yr after launch may be an indicator that its broadly constructive important reception—we gave it a really favorable 86 in our personal Kunitsu-Gami evaluate—did not translate into sturdy gross sales curiosity.
Kunitsu-Gami has been noticeably absent from Capcom’s quarterly and yearly monetary experiences since its launch. Capcom’s dealing with of the sport appears to have generated some criticism from its buyers: In a shareholder assembly earlier this month, the corporate was requested why Exoprimal obtained promotional help after a middling demo response, whereas Kunitsu-Gami “obtained constructive suggestions from its demo” however “didn’t seem to obtain sturdy promotional help to drive gross sales.”
“For Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess, we’ve got been maximizing promotions for it as a brand new IP. Within the fiscal yr ending March 2026, we launched this title for Nintendo Change 2 together with extra downloadable content material,” Capcom stated. “We stay dedicated to rising consciousness and speaking the enchantment of each titles.”
As for what that dedication may appear to be, Capcom can be celebrating Kunitsu-Gami’s launch anniversary with a brand new in-game talisman that can change the sport’s background music “to an 8-bit retro fashion in sure conditions.”
Kunitsu-Gami: Path of the Goddess is obtainable now on Steam.