Is asciilands.io safe?
http://asciilands.io/
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How we checked
Coverage: strong · 5 of 6 applicable core capabilities
- Antivirus (57 of 93 engines answered) · saved result: did not fully complete
- Google Safe Browsing: completed
- page reading: completed
- page capture: completed
- domain records: completed
- web research: completed
Asciilands is a brand-new free browser game with no detected threats, but its own pages could not be fully reviewed and its operator is anonymous.
Asciilands presents itself as a free-to-play, text-drawn multiplayer sandbox game that runs in the browser and is supported by voluntary donations. The saved technical checks found a valid encrypted connection and no threat warnings, and the visible page copy is transparent about the game being free and about the developer's use of AI in its creation. However, the domain is only 36 days old, no direct contact email was found on the captured page, and the operator is not disclosed, so the site's own pages could not be fully reviewed. That combination keeps it out of the Safe and Low Risk bands.
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Where this site sits
- Dangerous1–20
- High Risk21–44
- Moderate Risk45–69
- Low Risk70–84
- Safe85–100
The score combines saved evidence strength and analysis quality. Coverage is reported separately.
Why 78/100
Low Risk covers scores 70–84. 1 finding pulled the score down; 2 pushed it up.
What pulled the score down
- MinorNo direct contact email was found on the captured page.
What pushed the score up
- SupportsThe browser threat feed returned no threat warning.
- SupportsThe saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection.
No points per finding are stored for this report: our analysis weighed all findings together to set the score. Each finding shows its saved severity instead (Decisive, Strong, Moderate or Minor). Community reviews never change the Safety Score.
01 · Investigation Brief
Investigation Brief
Asciilands presents itself as a free-to-play, text-drawn multiplayer sandbox game that runs in the browser and is supported by voluntary donations. The saved technical checks found a valid encrypted connection and no threat warnings, and the visible page copy is transparent about the game being free and about the developer's use of AI in its creation. However, the domain is only 36 days old, no direct contact email was found on the captured page, and the operator is not disclosed, so the site's own pages could not be fully reviewed. That combination keeps it out of the Safe and Low Risk bands.
A free browser game funded by voluntary donations
The site describes itself as completely free to play, with optional donations for those who want to help keep the servers up. Logging in with Discord is offered as a way to continue progress across multiple devices and to use social features like Friends, Parties, and Towns.
The only commercial call to action visible on the page is a link to a third-party donation platform, and the site states that all support is voluntary, with donations first going toward server hosting and then toward replacing AI-generated assets with human-made ones.
The developer is candid that AI was used extensively to write the game's code and that AI-generated assets are placeholders intended to be replaced with commissioned artwork as funding allows.
Clean technical checks, but a very new and opaque operation
The saved TLS check found a valid encrypted connection, and the browser threat feed returned no threat warning. Those results mean no detections were recorded; they do not by themselves establish that the site is safe.
The registrable domain is only 36 days old, and no direct contact email was found on the captured page. The site directs users to Discord for support and bug reporting, but the operator is not disclosed and no registration details are present.
Because the site's own pages could not be fully reviewed and there is no established reputation, the site cannot be rated Safe or Low Risk despite the clean technical results.
Why the score is 78
The saved checks found no material threat, but the evidence was not strong enough for the highest Safe tier. Coverage remains separate so missing sources cannot be mistaken for clean results.
02 · Security Evidence
Security evidence
Antivirus Engines
0/ 93
No detectionsSaved analysis from October 20, 2026 - stale
No detections across 57 engines that rated this URL
No antivirus engine that answered raised an adverse result; 36 had no rating for this URL. This is one signal, not a guarantee.
- Malicious
- 0
- Suspicious
- 0
- Total
- 93
All 93 engine results
- 0xSI_f33d - Unrated
- Abusix - Clean
- Acronis - Clean
- ADMINUSLabs - Clean
- AILabs (MONITORAPP) - Clean
- AlienVault - Clean
- alphaMountain.ai - Unrated
- AlphaSOC - Unrated
- Antiy-AVL - Clean
- ArcSight Threat Intelligence - Unrated
- AutoShun - Unrated
- Bfore.Ai PreCrime - Unrated
- BitDefender - Clean
- Bkav - Unrated
- BlockList - Clean
- Blueliv - Clean
- Certego - Clean
- ChainPatrol - Unrated
- Chong Lua Dao - Clean
- CINS Army - Clean
- CRDF - Clean
- Criminal IP - Unrated
- CSIS Security Group - Unrated
- CTX AI - Clean
- Cyan - Unrated
- Cyble - Clean
- CyRadar - Clean
- desenmascara.me - Clean
- DNS8 - Unrated
- Dr.Web - Clean
- EmergingThreats - Clean
- Emsisoft - Clean
- Ermes - Unrated
- ESET - Clean
- ESTsecurity - Clean
- Forcepoint ThreatSeeker - Unrated
- Fortinet - Clean
- Fortra - Unrated
- G-Data - Clean
- GCP Abuse Intelligence - Unrated
- Google Safe Browsing - Clean
- GreenSnow - Clean
- GreyNoise - Unrated
- Gridinsoft - Unrated
- Guardpot - Unrated
- Heimdal Security - Clean
- Hunt.io Intelligence - Unrated
- IPsum - Clean
- Juniper Networks - Clean
- K7AntiVirus - Unrated
- Kaspersky - Clean
- LevelBlue - Clean
- Lionic - Clean
- Lumu - Unrated
- Malwared - Clean
- MalwarePatrol - Clean
- MalwareURL - Unrated
- Mimecast - Unrated
- Netcraft - Unrated
- OpenPhish - Clean
- Orcapot - Unrated
- PhishFort - Unrated
- Phishing Database - Clean
- Phishtank - Clean
- PREBYTES - Clean
- PrecisionSec - Unrated
- Quick Heal - Clean
- Quttera - Clean
- Rising - Clean
- SafeToOpen - Unrated
- Sangfor - Clean
- Sansec eComscan - Unrated
- Scantitan - Clean
- SCUMWARE.org - Clean
- Seclookup - Clean
- Snort IP sample list - Unrated
- SOCRadar - Unrated
- Sophos - Clean
- StopForumSpam - Clean
- Sucuri SiteCheck - Clean
- Synthient - Unrated
- ThreatHive - Clean
- URLhaus - Clean
- URLQuery - Unrated
- Viettel Threat Intelligence - Clean
- VIPRE - Unrated
- ViriBack - Clean
- VX Vault - Clean
- Webroot - Clean
- Xcitium Verdict Cloud - Clean
- Yandex Safebrowsing - Clean
- ZeroCERT - Clean
- ZeroFox - Unrated
How security vendors categorise this site
- Googlegaming
Each vendor’s own label for the site, saved with the antivirus result. Labels are separate from the engine verdicts above and can disagree with each other.
Security Scans
Checked against the browser threat feeds available to this scan — no hit.
What we observed
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Visual context from the captured page
Asciilands: a whole world, drawn in text
What the captured page showed
1 observation- 01
Asciilands: a whole world, drawn in text
What the page says about itself
What the site says about itself, quoted from the pages we read. The site wrote these words; they are not our findings.
- Page title
Asciilands: a whole world, drawn in text
- Meta description
Asciilands is a towny multiplayer sandbox you play in your browser. Explore one shared world, gather and craft, and build a home other players can find.
Pages we read
- Main page/Read
03 · Investigation Story
Investigation story
What the site claims
Asciilands: a whole world, drawn in text
What we observed
The page content was captured and checked alongside 57 antivirus results.
What independent research found
The search completed without a material external warning or corroborating report.
What remains unverified
1 of the 6 applicable core capabilities did not complete, so those gaps remain visible in the coverage ledger.
What kind of site and risk is this?
Threat category
No threat category confirmed
Service and business model
Gaming
Observed behavior
Evidence behind this classification
- 01The registrable domain is 36 days old.
- 02No direct contact email was found on the captured page.
- 03The browser threat feed returned no threat warning.
Web research findings
Independent findings for asciilands.io, including public complaints, named review sources, registration records, and look-alike-domain evidence. A missing result is shown as unverified, never converted into a clean bill of health.
No independently sourced scam reports or credibility records were found for asciilands.io. That is common for new or low-traffic sites and does not clear the site.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
04 · Domain & Infrastructure
Domain & infrastructure
The plumbing behind the site — who registered it, how it’s encrypted, where it’s hosted, and where it links out. A valid certificate or a calm server doesn’t mean the business is honest — scam sites pass these checks too. Use this to corroborate the verdict, not to overturn it.
Infrastructure map
How the saved page connected to the wider web.
- Domainasciilands.io
- Redirects toasciilands.io
- Hosted byCloudflare, Inc.
- Referencesdiscord.gg · tiktok.com
Domain Timeline
- Sep 23, 2026Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 36 days old when this review was saved.
- Oct 29, 2026Saved security review — Rated Low Risk
This saved scan found no material threat, but the evidence was not strong enough for the highest Safe tier.
Contact Verification
Saved contact details can help identify the operator. Their presence supports traceability; it does not prove the business is trustworthy.
- No direct contact email found on the captured page.
- Links to 2 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Cloudflare DNS is used by legitimate and scam sites alike, so it does not identify who runs the site.
Certificate issued for asciilands.io.
A shared Cloudflare address answers for many sites, so it is not the site's own server and says nothing about who runs it.
Analytics and ads
- Cloudflare Web Analytics
Payment providers the page loads
None seen among the outside domains we saved.
Read from the first 20 outside domains the page loads and the shop platform it uses; the web server and platform rows are under Hosting & Technology. A payment script on the page does not prove the shop accepts that method at checkout, or that you are protected.
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://asciilands.io/
- 2200https://asciilands.io/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
05 · Evidence Ledger
Evidence ledger
- Antiviruspartial
- Browser threat feedcomplete
- Page contentcomplete
- Analysiscomplete
- Visual evidencecomplete
The conclusion is supported by the evidence saved with this report.
Technical threat
unknownMalware, phishing, credential theft and hostile infrastructure.
No confirmed evidence in this dimension.
Operator / customer risk
unknownComplaints, withdrawals, business conduct and commercial traps.
No direct contact email was found on the captured page.
Source coverage and freshness
Status shows whether usable evidence was saved; finding shows what that evidence observed.
| Source | Result | Completion | Finding | Freshness |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antivirus | 0 of 93 engines flagged | Limited | No saved finding | stale fallback · analysed Oct 20, 2026 |
| Browser protection | No browser threat-list match | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 29, 2026 |
| Page content | Page fetched · HTTP 200 | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 29, 2026 |
| Visual evidence | 1 visible observation saved with the page capture | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 29, 2026 |
| Independent research | The search completed without a material external finding | Completed | No adverse finding | this scan · Oct 29, 2026 |
- Antivirus
- Result0 of 93 engines flagged
- CompletionLimitedFindingNo saved finding
- Freshnessstale fallback · analysed Oct 20, 2026
- Browser protection
- ResultNo browser threat-list match
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 29, 2026
- Page content
- ResultPage fetched · HTTP 200
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 29, 2026
- Visual evidence
- Result1 visible observation saved with the page capture
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 29, 2026
- Independent research
- ResultThe search completed without a material external finding
- CompletionCompletedFindingNo adverse finding
- Freshnessthis scan · Oct 29, 2026
07 · Safety FAQ
Safety FAQ
Common questions, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers reflect the saved verdict and evidence in this report.
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08 · Final Verdict
Final verdict
Asciilands is a brand-new free browser game with no detected threats, but its own pages could not be fully reviewed and its operator is anonymous.
Asciilands presents itself as a free-to-play, text-drawn multiplayer sandbox game that runs in the browser and is supported by voluntary donations. The saved technical checks found a valid encrypted connection and no threat warnings, and the visible page copy is transparent about the game being free and about the developer's use of AI in its creation. However, the domain is only 36 days old, no direct contact email was found on the captured page, and the operator is not disclosed, so the site's own pages could not be fully reviewed. That combination keeps it out of the Safe and Low Risk bands.
09 · Community
Community
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