This week, publisher Square Enix and developer Deck Nine Games announced the next title in the Life is Strange franchise, Life is Strange: True Colors. This new entry of the beloved narrative-driven adventure series will feature a new story, characters, powers, and in a series first it will not be episodic. It has now been revealed that the game will also utilize the controversial Denuvo Anti-Tamper software.
Denuvo is an anti-piracy software that developers and publishers pay to utilize to save time and money on developing other measures. Anti-piracy software is common for PC games, but Denuvo draws the ire of many because Denuvo has been shown to negatively affect game performance. Performance is important to many PC gamers, but a story-driven game like Life is Strange: True Colors shouldn’t be especially taxing on PC.
On the official pre-order listing for Life is Strange: True Colors on Steam, Denuvo Anti-Tamper is listed under the details about the game. This news shouldn’t come as a surprise, as previous games in the franchise utilize Denuvo, as do many of publisher Square Enix’s other western-developed titles like Just Cause 4 and Shadow of the Tomb Raider.
Denuvo is apparently costly to continually keep in games, so it is not uncommon for developers to patch out Denuvo once a game is no longer new. The 2015 original Life is Strange and its prequel Before the Storm do not currently have Denuvo, but Life is Strange 2, which released in 2019, still has it, which paints the picture that Life is Strange: True Colors will likely have it for some time.
Denuvo was recently confirmed to be coming to the PlayStation 5 as well, which is one of the consoles True Colors will be releasing on. It is unknown if the PS5 release of the game will utilize Denuvo as of this writing.
Life is Strange: True Colors launches September 10 for PC, PS4, PS5, Stadia, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X.
Source: Steam
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