Is steamcharts.com legit or a scam?
Steam Charts is a highly reputable gaming analytics platform that has provided reliable player-count data for over a decade with zero security flags.
Analysis Summary
No threats detected
All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site. See full visual analysis →
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.
No scam visual patterns detected
The screenshot shows a fully-rendered, professional data analytics site for Steam games with no visible scam indicators or deceptive patterns.
What our vision model saw
5 signalsProfessional layout displaying Steam player statistics and trending games
Clean data visualization with line graphs and bar charts for player counts
Functional search bar and organized data tables
No deceptive urgency tactics or fake trust badges visible
Consistent branding and typography throughout the page
MT Intelligence
This domain has been active for over 14 years and is widely recognized as a standard reference for gaming industry statistics. Our antivirus network shows a perfect clean record with zero detections across 92 different engines. The site uses the official Steam Web API to pull data and clearly discloses its non-affiliation with Valve. Global traffic rankings place it among the top websites worldwide, which is a strong indicator of sustained legitimacy. There are no deceptive patterns, login forms, or payment requests that would suggest a risk to users.
Web Research Findings
Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for steamcharts.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.
- Domain active for over 14 years (5189 days); data collection began July 2012 via Steam Web API, updated hourly.
- Owned and operated by individual James Gray (james4k / @james4k on X/Twitter); contact via email or Twitter @steamcharts.
- Site disclaimer on every page and about page: "All data is powered by Steam. Not affiliated with Valve in any way." Hosted by Digital Ocean in New York.
- Widely referenced on Reddit, Steam forums, YouTube, and gaming sites as a standard source for concurrent player counts and trends.
- Some user criticism that concurrent player data can be misleading for games with heavy crossplay, queues, or non-Steam platforms (e.g., fighting games, certain MMOs).
- No scam reports, malware complaints, or fraud allegations found across searches for scam, review, complaint.
- Competitor to official Steam charts and SteamDB; frequently cited in discussions of player numbers without legitimacy concerns.
Owned and operated by James Gray (james4k.com); no formal company/LLC mentioned. Hosted on Digital Ocean in New York. Data collection since July 2012.
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 (1573727).
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://steamcharts.com/
- 2200https://steamcharts.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 steamcharts.com and not a lookalike like s-teamcharts.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
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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 steamcharts.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
- steamcharts.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 97/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
- Yes. steamcharts.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Google Trust Services · WE1, expiring in 84 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
- steamcharts.com is 14.2 years old, registered on 4/12/2012 through Gandi SAS. 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 steamcharts.com as clean.
- No. steamcharts.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
- steamcharts.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.
- Yes. steamcharts.com sits in the global top-100k on Cloudflare Radar, which means it has substantial real-world traffic. That does not automatically make it safe, but established brands almost always rank here and throwaway scam domains almost never do.
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