Valeroa’s Anti-Temper Tech has been Cracked

Valeroa markets itself as a consumer-friendly alternative to Denuvo, a software anti-tamper technology that promised to work with offline games, provide no frame drops when used with gaming applications and incur no unnecessary wear on HDDs or SSDs.   

While the performance impact of Denuvo is a hotly debated topic, Valeroa promises to mitigate the perceived issue entirely, promising game developers to protect their games around launch while presenting no downsides to gamers. Perhaps the most noteworthy change is that Valeroa doesn’t limit the number of hardware changes PC, preventing the “Denuvo Lockout” issue that plagues benchmarkers, reviewers and other hardware testers. 

Valeroa doesn’t promise that their protection will never be cracked, which is perhaps a good thing given today’s news. Valeroa’s anti-tamper tech/protection has been broken, a mere three days after the launch of its first protected game, City Patrol: Police. 

At this time it is unknown whether or not Valeroa has plans to improve their protection for future game releases, or if any other games plan to utilise the technology at this time. City Patrol: Police isn’t exactly a well-known release, with the majority of the game’s Steam reviews being of free copies of the game. At this time most of the game’s reviews are negative. 

The first crack for Valeroa was created by a group called Steam006, who stated that “This “DRM” must be a joke, I hope the devs didn’t pay for this” in a recent forum post, which doesn’t inspire confidence in Valeroa’s long-term success. That being said, it is possible that City Patrol: Police’s implementation of Valeroa could be at fault.