Digital Rights Management
- Our latest software titles distrubuted on STEAM are protected with our 'soft' DRM solution. Please read below for our charter on what this software does to combat piracy and unauthorised software modification.
What it does
- -Upon every launch of the game, it checks with Steam that the game is authorised and owned by the player. If authenticated successfully, the game will launch as usual. This takes a second or two, but it’s usually instant. As soon as the game launches, the DRM exits.
- Notify the user if the check fails, and will not launch the game if the check fails.
- Provides executable level tampering protection, modification and prevents cracking the software and introducing potential security threats.
What it does NOT do
- Collect any player information
- Report back or ‘phone home’
- Cause any bugs or performance issues.
- Modify anything on your PC. -Use any kind of Anti-Cheat, device driver or kernel level space.
- Impose any kind of time restriction or require a constant connection to the internet to continue playing.
Our commitment to DRM free
Our ethos is if you buy our software, it’s your’s forever. Therefore we offer the option to purchase our games from GOG.com, which contains no DRM features. If you prefer this, you can check GOG for our DRM free version of our games. For our console versions e.g Nintendo Switch, PS5 and XBOX, all these stores have thier own implementation of DRM checks, of which we do not control. In line with this ethos, even with the Steam DRM protected versions, a ‘soft’ check is performed only. This is to perform a basic verification with Steam that the game has been purchased and is part of your Steam library. This is pretty much standard practice with most Steam games, but our DRM adds an extra layer of security to the game that prevents cracking and stopping Steam’s owernship check from being carried out. You still own the game.
Technical Support for DRM protected titles
No DRM is fail-safe or perfect, and like any software product, it can go wrong. If it prevents you from launching the game on Steam for any reason, please send us a support ticket and we will resolve this for you.
