Critical risk detected
2 of 92 antivirus engines flag this page. Our security stack flagged multiple threat indicators on this website. Don't enter personal information, deposit money, or download files.
Is ryuugames.com legit or a scam?
Piracy site for adult visual novels with malware flags from alphaMountain.ai and Chong Lua Dao plus Reddit reports of infected downloads.
These checks passed — but they don't clear the site. A clean antivirus result, valid SSL, and a calm server only mean it isn't hosting malware; they say nothing about whether the business is real. This verdict is based on the site's conduct and content, not a malware detection.
Analysis Summary
MT Intelligence
The site presents itself as a direct-download hub for Japanese and translated adult games, complete with a login form and VIP subscription options. Two antivirus engines flagged the page as malicious while one more marked it suspicious, and Reddit threads in piracy communities repeatedly mention malware delivered through ad redirects. The domain itself is over six years old with a clean hosting IP and valid SSL, which prevents an outright malicious verdict. Mixed user experiences show some long-term visitors reporting clean files while others encountered issues after clicking download buttons. The combination of active malware detections and documented redirect problems makes the site risky for non-technical users.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for ryuugames.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain ryuugames.com registered March 13, 2020 (over 5 years old as of 2025).
- Site offers free direct downloads of visual novels, eroge, and hentai games in Japanese (RAW) and English translations.
- Requires age verification; promotes VIP access for $5/month via PayPal/QRIS/crypto for unreleased games.
- Multiple Reddit threads (r/animepiracy, r/CrackSupport, r/PiratedGames) discuss download safety with reports of malware, false positives, ad redirects, and user errors.
- Scamadviser rates the site as 'very likely not a scam but legit and reliable' with good trust signals.
- Competitors include kimochi.info, otomi-games.com, f95zone.to; listed in piracy communities as a DDL source.
- AdGuard filters target ads/redirects on the site (e.g., to aichattings.com).
- Reddit r/animepiracyopen
"ryuugames.com is no longer safe to download VNs"
- Reddit r/PiratedGamesopen
"Its a malware and I have no idea what ryuugames is, defenitely avoid random no-name sites like that"
- Reddit r/animepiracyopen
"Use an adblock and make sure you're clicking the right download button. You most likely clicked on a malicious redirect and downloaded malware."
- Reddit r/CrackSupportopen
"Yes, they even have a very active discord, I have downloaded hundreds of games from them over the years and all were clean."
- Scamadviseropen
"In summary, ryuugames.com is very likely not a scam but legit and reliable."
- Reddit r/animepiracyopen
"ryuugames.com is safe . The issue is with the game launcher which gives false positive as explained in the Tweet linked by the mod."
Reddit discussions in r/animepiracy and r/PiratedGames include three reports of malware or unsafe downloads from the site. Three other posts defend the site as safe when proper ad-blocking is used and note an active Discord community. Eight total complaints appear across forums, mostly tied to ad redirects rather than the files themselves.
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 postal address visible on the page.
- Phone number listed (01228615).
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://ryuugames.com/
- 2301https://ryuugames.com/
- 3200https://www.ryuugames.com/cross-domain
Server Reputation
Scam-Type Likelihood
1 scam-type patterns detected
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- AI analyst tagged this as malware / drive-by / cracked app.
0 of 13 categories showed signals
We check every URL against 13 distinct scam categories so the verdict tells you not just how risky the page is, but what kind of risk it carries. Each meter pulls from page signals, web reports, our AI analyst, vision, and the scam-network cluster — not from raw AV labels.
- AI analyst tagged this as malware / drive-by / cracked app.
Malware distribution detected
Signals suggest this page may deliver malicious files or exploit the browser.
- Do not interact with ryuugames.com
Do not enter credentials, deposit money, download files, or install browser extensions from this site.
- If you downloaded or ran a file from here
Disconnect the device from the internet, run a full scan with a reputable antivirus (Malwarebytes, ESET, Bitdefender), and consider a second-opinion scanner. Change passwords on any account you used from the device afterwards — ideally from a different device.
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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 from the scan data on this page. These are auto-generated — not hand-written — so they always match the underlying report.
- Our automated security review flags ryuugames.com as dangerous. Multiple threat indicators were detected — treat the site as a scam until proven otherwise.
- No — ryuugames.com scored 21/100 on our trust scale. We detected active threat indicators, so we recommend avoiding the site entirely.
- Yes. ryuugames.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Starfield Technologies, Inc. · Starfield Secure Certificate Authority - G2, expiring in 36 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- ryuugames.com is 6.2 years old, registered on 3/13/2020 through NameCheap, Inc.. Scam domains are often freshly registered — a site under 6 months old warrants extra caution.
- 3 out of 92 antivirus engines in our malware network flagged ryuugames.com as malicious or suspicious (2 outright malicious). Even one detection is a meaningful signal.
- No. ryuugames.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- ryuugames.com resolves to an IP operated by Sucuri 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.
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