What kind of lame excuse is that 'lack of muscle force' spiel? Is Steam also 'forcing them' to not release a DRM-free version of their game or what?

Because... Valve don't do exclusives with no devs/pubs, do they?

Didn't think they'd have the money for Denuvo.

Whatever. Rave reviews from RPS and Polygon etc for being arty. An arty game of trial and error. No real gameplay. No real story. Just bad puzzles that make no intelligent sense and are only solved by dying for no reason.

It received most of it's public reviews because it was basically a free game. A free game which plays like a Flash game...

Riiight cherry pick review sites to support your point,say a bunch of meaningless ad hominems(no real gameplay? hmm I didn't knew platforming and puzzles were the equivalent of visual novels)and continue to enjoy the fantasy that people give great reviews for free products. I guess all those free games on steam or ios/android stores with negative reviews are just because RPS didn't wrote about them.

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Blindly support some free game and yell and scream at GoG for not carrying a game that was available for a penny before GoG really sold Indies. You have zero business sense. GoG is still a business. It's claim to fame is its different. it isn't very good, it's just different. Whatever. That and the developers using Denuvo talking about how they might consider a DRM-free release to keep the pressure off...

Best its not on GoG.

Not sure if true, but according to a Reddit user who claimed to be a developer, Denuvo's price was something like the following:

Lump sum model:

-AAA title (bigger 500k units on PC): 100.000 EUR
-AA title (smaller 500k units on PC): 50.000 EUR
-Indie title (less than 100k units on PC): 10.000 EUR

Per unit pricing:

-2.500 EUR setup fee.
-0,15 EUR per unit reported monthly based on Steam,… owners.
(optional) cost covering for on-site visit if requested.

Ah, makes more sense now, I thought everybody had to pay the same 'fee'.

Still I think they'd be better off without Denuvo, there's been some backlash over at the Steam forum.

Denuvo should just cease to exist. But looking at its pricing, it seems it is better off profit-wise to ditch it than to implement support for it. People will buy INSIDE on the fact that it's made by the same guys who made LIMBO and sales will be hot for it. But that's just my theory. Do they really need Denuvo at all?

I'm one of those people who thought that Limbo was a good game with some few flaws, and even though I've heard and even seen nothing but good things about the game I won't buy it precisely because it uses the Denuvo protection. I've heard nothing but bad things about that protection and after I've seen some games that uses the protection experiencing the same problems I tend to stay away from it.
If they will release the game later on Humble Bundle without its protection then I will gladly pay 20 bucks for it, but until then it's a no for me no matter how good the game is.
There are other great games out there that requires my money without all of this non-sense.