{"id":1013660,"date":"2026-08-20T22:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T22:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1013660\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T22:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T22:29:13","slug":"the-new-rat-horror-game-is-being-pirated-a-week-before-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1013660\/","title":{"rendered":"The New Rat Horror Game Is Being Pirated A Week Before Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy<\/a> is a prequel to the previous two critically acclaimed, rat-filled horror adventures, and it\u2019s not supposed to be out for another seven days. But that hasn\u2019t stopped the PC version from somehow leaking early. It\u2019s hardly the first time pirates have gotten early access to a game this year.<\/p>\n

Reports that any DRM the game had was cracked<\/a> and that copies were being circulated online hit the game\u2019s subreddit earlier today. There have since been images shared<\/a> of the game\u2019s loading screen, with several players claiming to have begun playing Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy early, while others log off in order to avoid spoilers. Images from the game have been spreading on piracy subreddits as well.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not clear how the PC version broke containment a week ahead of release, but it\u2019s far from the only major game to leak early in 2026. Some players went hands-on with Forza Horizon 6<\/a> before launch back in May, while Xbox players got access to Lego Batman<\/a> ahead of schedule as well. And then there are the rest of the early leaks plaguing big games, including the opening of 007 First Light<\/a>, which spread online before launch, and the current flood of unauthorized Grand Theft Auto 6 gameplay clips<\/a> making the rounds.<\/p>\n

A Plague Tale Legacy doesn\u2019t have any paid early access option and won\u2019t unlock for fans until August 27. It\u2019s expected to be roughly 20 hours long, and like the previous two adventure games by Asobo Studio, it is expected to be heavily narrative-driven. Unlike those first two stealth games, however, this one is an action game complete with a parry system. It\u2019ll be available day-one on Game Pass Ultimate<\/a> on console and PC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy is a prequel to the previous two critically acclaimed, rat-filled horror adventures, and…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1013661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7],"tags":[51967,44297,405567,158,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-1013660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-leaks","tag-piracy","tag-resonance-a-plague-tale-legacy","tag-technology","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117130204081775938","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1013661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}