Resident Evil 4 remake has the Enigma Protector DRM removed

By Liam Dawe - 3 Mar 2026 at 2:08 pm UTC

Resident Evil 4 (the 2023 remake) now seemingly has no special DRM attached to it, as Capcom finally listened to fans to improve the game.

The game originally launched with Denuvo, and then a bunch of people celebrated back when that was removed in early February but it was replaced with The Enigma Protector. Now, that has also been removed as shown by SteamDB and it is no longer listed on the Steam page either.

A game actually removing DRM is always a nice thing to see. It was quite widely reported that Enigma DRM did bring down performance across all systems from Linux / SteamOS to Windows - so hopefully now everyone will see it play smoother regardless of your chosen platform.

A nice time for it to happen too with the recent release of Resident Evil Requiem.

Resident Evil 4

Release Date: 24th March 2023

Platform: ⚛ Proton / Wine

Official links:Fanatical Steam

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Tags: Proton, Action, Adventure, DRM, Horror, Steam | Apps: Resident Evil 4

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scaine 2 hours ago

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I appreciate that I'm in a minority here, but DRM has never been about performance for me. It's been about respecting your customers and not treating them like criminals. It's about giving your customers a better experience than the pirates. It's about acknowledging that even when DRM works... the pirates wouldn't be buying your game anyway. It's not a lost sale. Or at least not meaningful lost sales. Certainly not lost sales to the tune of a one-off £250K fee, and £25K a month.

So this is a maybe for me now. I've ignored all the RE games of late, because they've been encumbered. Might have to bring myself up to date and play catch up.

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Avehicle7887 2 hours ago

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Now all they have to do is release it on GOG so I can finally buy and play it.

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Linas 1 hour ago

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Most likely they realized that it did not protect anything either.

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pb 34 minutes ago

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Quoting: LinasMost likely they realized that it did not protect anything either.

It protected a lot of people's wallets, which are now exposed to impulse buying. ;-)

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Justin_S 19 minutes ago

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Good, they should remove it from the Dino Crisis games as well that they released on Steam. They're the GOG version but with Enigma lazily slapped on top 🤮

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robvv 14 minutes ago

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Good news, though - ironically - it was cracked about a month ago 😄

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