Is love-maniac.com legit or a scam?
A functional fan-made gaming portal for the 'LoveManiac' parody RPG that provides browser-based play and clear links to the original developers.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
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Visual Screenshot Analysis
We capture a fresh screenshot of the live page and ask a vision model to look for scam visual patterns — fake trust badges, countdown timers, overlay pop-ups, and visual clones of legitimate brands.
Visual red flags detected in the screenshot
The page appears to be a legitimate niche browser-gaming site for adult parody RPGs with consistent UI design and no obvious visual scam indicators.
What our vision model saw
6 signalsPage presents a functional browser-based gaming portal layout
Consistent branding for 'LoveManiac' and 'Team Nebula' throughout the interface
Presence of standard navigation elements, search bar, and game categorization tags
Sidebar featuring 'Play next' recommendations with consistent artwork and descriptions
Designated advertisement placeholders that appear integrated into the layout
No visible fake urgency, trust badges, or deceptive pop-ups
MT Intelligence
The site functions as a legitimate content aggregator for a specific niche of browser-based games. Our analysis shows no malicious detections across 92 antivirus engines, and the hosting infrastructure has a clean reputation. Although the domain was registered only 25 days ago, the page content is transparent about its status as an unofficial fan site. It explicitly credits the original creators and includes necessary age warnings for adult content. The lack of data-harvesting forms or deceptive 'download' buttons further supports its legitimacy.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for love-maniac.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain registered approximately 25 days ago (very young site); WHOIS owner information is hidden.
- love-maniac.com is an unofficial fan site that hosts a browser-playable version of LoveManiac (Undertale NSFW parody RPG by Team Nebula) and lists similar romance/yandere/dark comedy browser games with source notes and warnings.
- Official game page is https://team-nebula.itch.io/lovemaniac (4.7/5 rating from 452 users, downloads for Windows/Linux/Mac/Android via Patreon early access; no official browser version mentioned).
- The site emphasizes checking official sources, 18+ warnings, and directs downloadable builds to Team Nebula's itch.io page.
- Scamadviser concludes "probably not a scam but legit" despite low trust factors (young age, hidden owner, low traffic); Gridinsoft gives 45/100 trust score with no confirmed scam or malware detections.
- No user complaints, scam reports, malware flags, or negative Reddit/Trustpilot mentions found; game itself has active community on itch.io, YouTube gameplay, and Reddit.
- Site includes a privacy policy stating it does not require accounts or personal data submission.
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Contact Verification
We fetched the page and looked for real-world contact details. Legitimate businesses almost always publish an email on their own domain, a phone number, and a postal address. Scam shops usually don't.
- No contact email found anywhere on the page.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://love-maniac.com/
- 2200https://love-maniac.com/
Server Reputation
Still, stay alert
No major threat indicators — but a clean scan does not guarantee every page is safe, and phishing emails routinely spoof real domains.
- Double-check the exact URL in your address bar
Confirm you are actually on love-maniac.com and not a lookalike like l-ove-maniac.com.com or an IDN homoglyph.
- Use a password manager
Password managers only auto-fill on the exact domain they were saved for — they refuse to fill lookalike domains, which is the single best phishing defence.
- OpenDiscuss this site on the forum
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Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
Safety FAQ
Common questions about this site, answered directly from the scan data above — so the answers always reflect the latest verdict on this page.
- Our automated security review found no threat indicators on love-maniac.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- love-maniac.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 75/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. love-maniac.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 67 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- love-maniac.com is 25 days old, registered on 6/4/2026 through Squarespace Domains II LLC. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- No. All 92 antivirus engines in our malware network report love-maniac.com as clean.
- No. love-maniac.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- love-maniac.com resolves to an IP operated by Cloudflare, Inc. in US (usage type: Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad, but unusual geography for a brand's claimed country is one of many signals we weigh.
- This is a permanent record of the scan run on June 30, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around love-maniac.com have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.
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