Security Review

Is stonemachia.com legit or a scam?

Our verdict:Safe· 84/100

Official website for Stonemachia, a well-reviewed indie soulslike game by Italian developer Crossfall Games with 96% positive Steam reviews.

stonemachia.comScanned 2d ago
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Trust score
SAFE
Heuristics 87·MT 82
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Analysis Summary

Threat Intelligence
0/92
All engines report clean
Domain Age
1.7 years old
Registered Sep 26, 2024
MT Intelligence
Safe
Low likelihood · 95% confidence
SAFE

No threats detected

All checks passed. This site appears legitimate — but always stay alert for phishing even on trusted domains.

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MT Intelligence

Advanced threat intelligence
MT Security Analyst
Low scam likelihoodengineMT · Guardiantrust82/100
MT AgentLive web researchVisual inspection
0%
Confidence
Stonemachia.com is the official website for a real indie game published by Crossfall Games, a small Italian studio founded in 2022. The game launched in May 2026 and has accumulated strong player and critic approval: Steam shows 96% positive reviews from 720+ players, Metacritic rates it Generally Favorable (75 critic score), and independent reviewers like GamingTrend gave it 85/100. Our antivirus network flagged nothing malicious, the domain is 624 days old (consistent with pre-release development), and the hosting infrastructure is clean. The site links directly to the legitimate Steam store page and includes social links to Discord, YouTube, and Patreon — all standard for indie game studios. No scam reports, complaints, or malware associations exist in any search results.
Full dossier
Analysis complete

Page Content

The site presents as a professional game landing page with a dark fantasy aesthetic matching the game's theme. It includes sections for game atmosphere, story, and gameplay mechanics (parry-and-dodge combat, boss encounters, stat progression). The page loads external resources from legitimate CDNs and platforms: Google Fonts, Steam store, YouTube, Discord, TikTok, and Patreon — all standard for indie game marketing. No login forms, countdown timers, or push-notification spam detected.

Infrastructure

Domain registered 624 days ago via NameCheap with valid Let's Encrypt SSL (72 days to expiry). Hosting IP 134.255.176.89 has zero abuse reports and a clean reputation score. No redirects, homoglyphs, or internationalized domain tricks. The site does not appear in global traffic indexes, which is typical for niche indie game websites.

Domain History

The 624-day registration age aligns with the studio's development timeline — Crossfall Games was formed in 2022, and a playable demo was available since approximately 2024. The domain predates the May 2026 official release, consistent with pre-launch marketing and community building.

Web Reputation

Our antivirus network reports zero malicious or suspicious detections across 92 engines. Browser blocklists are clean. Independent review aggregators do not flag the site. The game itself has strong third-party validation: GamingTrend (85/100), Steam community (96% positive from 720+ reviews), Metacritic (Generally Favorable), and Reddit users praising it as an excellent budget soulslike. No scam reports, complaints, or malware associations found in any search.

Risk Factors
3
  • No direct contact email, phone, or postal address on the site — typical for small indie studios but limits direct communication.
  • Not indexed in global traffic rankings — expected for a niche indie game site with limited marketing budget.
  • Some mixed player feedback on Reddit and Steam regarding technical roughness, camera issues, and uneven level design — common for zero-budget indie projects but not a scam indicator.
Positive Signals
5
  • Strong Steam community validation: 96% positive reviews from 720+ players.
  • Professional third-party coverage: GamingTrend (85/100), Metacritic (Generally Favorable), and positive Reddit discussion.
  • Legitimate business registration confirmed: Crossfall Games, active Italian studio founded 2022, developer and publisher of record.
  • Clean antivirus and hosting reputation: zero malware detections, zero abuse reports on hosting IP, valid SSL certificate.
  • Direct links to official Steam store page (App ID 2982610) and established social presence (Discord, YouTube, Patreon, itch.io).
AI Recommendation
This is a safe, legitimate indie game website. You can visit it to learn about Stonemachia, join the community, or purchase the game via the official Steam link. No security or fraud concerns.
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Web Research Findings

Our live research agent queries scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, news coverage, and general web search for stonemachia.com, then cross-checks business-registration records and look-alike domain patterns. Everything below is pulled from what it actually found.

Domain age
1.7 yrs
Registered Sep 2024
Business registration
Active · Italy
Site traces back to an actively registered business.
Clone check
Not a clone
No well-known site's layout or branding detected here.
Typosquat check
No look-alike match
The domain doesn't resemble any well-known brand's spelling.
Web mentions
4 positive
Key findings
7 headline facts from open-web research
  • stonemachia.com is the official website for Stonemachia, a dark fantasy soulslike action-adventure game developed by Crossfall Games (small Italian indie studio led by Ivan Maestri).
  • Game released May 26, 2026 on PC; Steam page shows Overwhelmingly Positive reviews (96% of 720+ reviews); Metacritic Generally Favorable (75 critic score).
  • Gameplay involves playing as Zefiro (a chess pawn that transforms into other pieces), parry-focused combat, exploration of a world inspired by Italian folklore, art, and Dante's Inferno themes (Plague of Angels, Medhelan).
  • Positive coverage in reviews from GamingTrend (85/100, praises chess mechanic, art direction, combat), Checkpoint Gaming, and Reddit users calling it excellent for its budget.
  • Some mixed Steam/Reddit feedback on jankiness, camera issues, uneven level design, and technical roughness typical of a small zero-budget team.
  • No scam reports, complaints, malware associations, or negative trust signals found across searches for scam/review/complaint.
  • Domain age of 624 days aligns with pre-release development (demo available since ~2024); studio has LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube, itch.io presence since 2022.
Positive reviews (4)
Quotes indicating the site is legitimate.
  • GamingTrendopen

    "Stonemachia is the kind of debut that makes me still believe in indie gaming. The chess transformation mechanic is peak design... 85 score."

  • Steamopen

    "Overwhelmingly Positive (720) - 96% of the 720 user reviews for this game are positive."

  • Metacriticopen

    "Generally Favorable (75 Metascore based on 5 critic reviews; user score also Generally Favorable)."

  • Reddit r/soulslikesopen

    "Great game for it's budget, very parry-heavy, I would say it's one of the best $20 soulslike you can find."

Business registration
Status: active · Italy

Crossfall Games, small independent studio formed in 2022 by Ivan Maestri in Milan; developer and publisher of Stonemachia (zero-budget Italian indie project)

Research summary
Narrative write-up from our AI analyst, grounded on the facts above

We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for stonemachia.com and found zero scam reports or complaints. Instead, we found strong positive validation: the game has 96% positive reviews on Steam (720+ players), a Generally Favorable Metacritic score (75), and praise from independent reviewers and Reddit communities. The developer, Crossfall Games, is a registered active Italian studio founded in 2022 by Ivan Maestri. No malware, phishing, or fraud associations exist in any search result.

Antivirus Engines

Clean pass · verified
Clean across 92 engines

We cross-check every URL against our antivirus network of 92 malware and blacklist engines. None of them flagged this URL in the last scan.

0Malicious0Suspicious58Harmless92Engines
Clean
Kaspersky
Clean
Bitdefender
Clean
Microsoft
Not in pass
ESET-NOD32
Not in pass
Avira
Not in pass
Sophos
Clean
Fortinet
Clean
Google Safebrowsing
Clean
Emsisoft
Clean

No engine detections. The URL passed every antivirus and blacklist engine we queried in this scan. Stay vigilant — AV coverage is only one signal among many.

Security Scans

Blacklist Check
Not flagged on major threat lists

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.

What We Found
No clear contact details on the page
Emails on site's domainNone
Phone numbersNone
Postal addressNot listed
Linked social profiles2
Signal Summary
Several contact red flags
  • No contact email found anywhere on the page.
  • No phone number listed on the page.
  • No postal address visible on the page.
  • Links to 2 social profiles.

Domain & Encryption

Domain History
Age1.7 years old
RegistrarNameCheap, Inc.
RegisteredSep 26, 2024
ExpiresSep 26, 2026
Owner privacyVisible
Encryption Certificate
StatusValid
ProtocolTLSv1.3
IssuerLet's Encrypt · E7
ExpiresAug 24, 2026 (72d)
Self-signedNo
Hosting & Technology
HostingContabo GmbH
Server locationDE
Web servernginx/1.22.1

Redirect Chain

Hops
1
Cross-domain
No
Lookalike
No
Punycode
No
  • 1301http://stonemachia.com/
  • 2200https://stonemachia.com/

Server Reputation

Abuse Intelligence
Confidence score0%
Reports on file0
ISPContabo GmbH
Usage typeData Center/Web Hosting/Transit

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 stonemachia.com and not a lookalike like s-tonemachia.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.

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Reputation Sources

How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.

Google Safe Browsing
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VirusTotal
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AbuseIPDB
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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 stonemachia.com. The site appears legitimate based on the signals we checked, but always stay alert for phishing emails that spoof real domains.
  • stonemachia.com passed our automated security checks with a trust score of 84/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged the site at the time of the last scan.
  • Yes. stonemachia.com presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · E7, expiring in 72 days. Note that SSL only encrypts the connection — it does not guarantee that the site itself is trustworthy.
  • stonemachia.com is 1.7 years old, registered on 9/26/2024 through NameCheap, Inc.. 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 stonemachia.com as clean.
  • No. stonemachia.com is not currently listed on the major browser blocklist feeds that modern browsers use.
  • stonemachia.com resolves to an IP operated by Contabo GmbH in DE (usage type: Data Center/Web Hosting/Transit). 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 13, 2026. The verdict and evidence above reflect that scan and do not change on their own. If circumstances around stonemachia.com have changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan, which re-runs every check from scratch and publishes an updated report.

Final Verdict

0
Trust / 100
Final Verdict·stonemachia.com
SAFE

Stonemachia is the official website for a legitimate indie dark-fantasy soulslike game developed by Crossfall Games, an Italian studio. The game has strong positive reviews on Steam (96% positive, 720+ reviews) and Metacritic, with no scam reports or malware detections.

This is a safe, legitimate indie game website. You can visit it to learn about Stonemachia, join the community, or purchase the game via the official Steam link. No security or fraud concerns.

AV engines
92
MT passes
2
Net signals
0
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