RIME released across a number of platforms, including PC, last week with a built-in anti-tampering digital rights management (DRM) protection from Denuvo. This was meant to keep the game out of the hands of pirates and to "ensure the best gaming experience for Rime players."

The developers were quite confident in Denuvo's DRM that they issued a challenge to hackers saying that if someone cracked the game they would remove the DRM. Dariuas, the RIME community manager, issued the challenge on the Steam forums:

"We are very committed to this, but also to the simple fact that nothing is infallible. That being said, if RIME is cracked we will release a Denuvo free version of RiME and update existing platforms."

Unfortunately for the developers, the game has been cracked. Baldman has officially cracked the game and suggests that players should buy the game when they have the chance, as it's a "super nice" game. However, Baldman did warn that Denuvo's DRM slows the game's loading abilities down by quite a bit.