Lords of the Fallen Does Not Use Denuvo DRM for PC Version

Hexworks’ Lords of the Fallen had a long period of development hell, but it’s since been released to strong critical praise and commercial success, with over one million units sold. As the company continues to update the Souls-like action RPG, CI Games CFO David Broderick has revealed the development costs.

Action RPG Lords of the Fallen sold over one million copies in its first 10 days of release, publisher CI Games and developer Hexworks announced.

Despite ongoing technical issues, Lords of the Fallen is a hit for Hexworks and CI Games. According to a new tweet, the Souls-like action RPG has sold one million units since launching on October 13th.

When it comes to complex souls-like RPGs such as , it's no secret that some beginner tips will come in handy. Especially considering CI Games brings even more confusing concepts into the mix by allowing players to venture between Axiom, the realm of the living, and Umbral, the realm of the dead. As a result, it doesn't hurt to wrap your head around a couple of the game's concepts before you throw yourself in the fire that is .

Hexworks continues to release updates for its Soulslike action RPG Lords of the Fallen, with the latest offering improvements to performance. Its main goal is freeing up VRAM to provide “additional headroom” for GPUs that “are operating at the limit of their capabilities.”

The new soulslike Lords of the Fallen got hammered pretty hard in its first few days on Steam, primarily over complaints about its dodgy performance. For some players it's been fine, but others encountered issues with low frame rates, stuttering, and crashes. Some people on Steam said they weren't even able to access the main menu.

Hexworks has a new patch available for Lords of the Fallen, focusing on balance and other changes based on feedback. However, the developer noted significant improvements to stability and optimizations, though more are coming in future updates.

Paradox has revealed that Cities: Skylines 2, while featuring support for mods, will not be making use of the Steam Workshop to distribute its mods. Instead, the studio is opting to use its own Paradox Mods platform, which is a cross-platform library.

Lords of the Fallen publisher CI Games says that it is “well positioned” for two games in the pipeline, after the release of the soulslike reboot last week. We can also expect key data regarding sales for Lords of the Fallen soon too, but we already know it’s been more of a success than the 2014 original.

Action-packed thrills and spooky chills await this month’s selection of games joining the PlayStation Game Catalog. All titles playable from Tuesday, October 17. Let’s get into it.

Lords Of The Fallen has issued a major performance patch for the technically troubled Soulslike, helping its Steam reviews to escape their early ‘Mostly Negative’ rating as developers Hexworks resolve a number of the biggest problems on PC.

The makers of fresh Soulslike Lords Of The Fallen have taken a strong position against the use of digital rights management software Denuvo, promising players that the game will never dabble with the controversial anti-piracy tech.