Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight Quietly Adds Denuvo DRM Weeks Before Launch

Developer TT Games and steadfast Warner Bros. Games person softly added arguable DRM bundle Denuvo to Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight up of its motorboat aboriginal this month.

PC players were speedy to rise the alarms aft Reddit idiosyncratic luffy_3155 shared that the Lego Batman game's Steam leafage present features a 3rd-party DRM tag. The last-minute summation sees the anti-piracy measurement baked into the crippled conscionable weeks up of its motorboat for PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X | S May 22, 2026.

Game developers often see Denuvo to combat backmost against piracy, but the tech has faced backlash from PC players due, much than anything, to its antagonistic effects connected each idiosyncratic game's performance. Now that Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight is confirmed to usage it, too, immoderate players are saying they're acceptable to constitute disconnected buying a PC transcript altogether.

"Oh good if they ever hole show and region Denuvo, I'll bargain it connected a steep sale," 1 subordinate said.

"Bruh, the crippled already has INSANE strategy requirements," different added. "Now, Denuvo is gonna TANK show adjacent more."

Adding insult to wounded are the precocious revealed PC requirements for Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight. The Unreal Engine 5 rubric demands 16 GB of RAM and requires framework procreation to beryllium turned connected conscionable to execute 30 fps. With Denuvo thrown into the mix, the fearfulness is that astir hardware volition conflict to tally astatine all, overmuch little tally well.

Batman doesn't person the champion past connected PC, with galore Lego Batman fans disquieted they could beryllium facing different catastrophe akin to the motorboat of Batman: Arkham Knight successful 2015. It's hard to accidental what authorities Legacy of the Dark Knight volition get successful until its merchandise day arrives successful a fewer weeks.

"Performance was already an contented with this game. This volition surely help," idiosyncratic other commented.

Reddit idiosyncratic voices38 became the archetypal to ace Denuvo DRM successful 2026 erstwhile they reported uncovering a workaround for Resident Evil Requiem past month. It seems players were capable to bypass the exertion for each single-player, non-VR Denuvo games lone a fewer weeks later.

Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight launches for PC and consoles aboriginal this month. TT and Warner Bros. published a motorboat trailer for the tongue-in-cheek spinoff featuring Seal's Kiss from a Rose conscionable a fewer days ago. You tin cheque retired our last preview for the Arkham-like Lego crippled here.

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