Naraka: Bladepoint

Naraka: Bladepoint is a melee-focused battle royale from 24 Entertainment, a NetEasePublisherNetEase GamesNetEase Games is the video-game division of NetEase, Inc., a Chinese internet company. It developed and publishes Marvel Rivals in collaboration with Marvel Games. NetEase ships its own in-house anti-cheat, a separate product from Tencent's ACE.3 games in this family → studio, built on UnityEngineUnityUnity Technologies' engine powers a wide range of PC titles, from indie projects to large multiplayer games. In the competitive-shooter space, Escape from Tarkov is the notable Unity-based title.8 games in this family → with a custom render pipeline (and notably the first Unity game to ship NVIDIA DLSS). It launched on PC in August 2021, reached consoles in 2022, and went free-to-play alongside its PlayStation 5 release in July 2023. NetEase is a Chinese company.

Installing Naraka means accepting NetEase's kernel-level anti-cheat (NeacSafe64.sys). If you run Windows memory-integrity (HVCI) and the game will not start, that conflict is the likely cause. Keep the game updated so the anti-cheat driver is past the CVE-2025-45737 fix (version 1.0.0.8 or later). If you uninstall, check Windows services and drivers for residual NetEase entries, the same housekeeping the Marvel Rivals and Delta Force plates recommend.

Naraka installs NetEase's in-house anti-cheat, Neac, whose Windows kernel driver is NeacSafe64.sys. This is the same NetEase anti-cheat family that backs Marvel Rivals, and a different product from Tencent's ACE despite frequent confusion. The driver runs at the kernel level and historically conflicted with Windows memory-integrity (HVCI), so some players had to disable HVCI for it to load, which is the technical root of the 'too intrusive' complaints. As with the rest of NetEase's anti-cheat, the vendor has not published the kind of internals that would let you verify its behavior independently.

The clearest trust incident here is documented and specific. In 2025, a privilege-escalation vulnerability, CVE-2025-45737, was disclosed in NeacSafe64.sys: by sending crafted commands to the driver, an attacker could escalate to SYSTEM and run code in kernel space. NetEase fixed it in driver version 1.0.0.8. It is the same lesson as the Genshin driver, one level newer: a shipped kernel anti-cheat is a kernel-level attack surface, and a flaw in it becomes a local privilege-escalation primitive for the whole machine, not just the game. A commercial cheat market for Naraka exists, which NetEase counters with reporting and hardware-ID bans.