No specific threat detected
Official site of established UK game studio Toxic Games with 16-year-old domain and clean security record.
Is toxicgames.co.uk legit or a scam?
Official site of established UK game studio Toxic Games with 16-year-old domain and clean security record.
This is the official website of Toxic Games, a legitimate UK video game studio. The domain is 16 years old, the company is registered with Companies House, and no antivirus engines or scam reports flag the site.
Analysis Summary
Website Preview
Automated page render — captured in a safe sandbox. What an ordinary visitor would see when loading the site.
Visual 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 legitimate-looking product page for a video game, with no visual indicators of scam activity.
What our vision model saw
3 signalsThe page displays a professional, branded website for a known game developer.
Navigation menu and call-to-action buttons appear standard for a legitimate software product page.
No deceptive urgency, fake security indicators, or suspicious pop-ups are present.
Intelligence
The domain toxicgames.co.uk was registered in 2010 and belongs to TOXIC GAMES LIMITED, a company listed as active on the UK Companies House register. Zero of 92 antivirus engines flagged the page, browser blocklists show it as clean, and the visual scan confirms a professional product site for the Q.U.B.E. game series. The page loads external links to legitimate storefronts such as Steam and the Nintendo eShop, and the evidence package contains no scam reports or complaints. These signals together indicate a genuine developer site rather than any fraudulent operation.
Web Research Findings
Independent findings for toxicgames.co.uk, 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.
- Toxic Games is a legitimate, award-winning independent video game development studio based in the UK.
- The studio is well-known for developing the 'Q.U.B.E.' series of first-person puzzle games.
- The company was founded in 2010 by Daniel Da Rocha, Dave Hall, and Jonathan Savery.
- The domain toxicgames.co.uk is the official website for the studio and its projects.
- The business is officially registered with the UK Companies House (Company number 07382475) and maintains an active status.
Registered as TOXIC GAMES LIMITED (Company number 07382475) in England & Wales.
We searched scam-report databases, consumer-review sites, and general web sources for toxicgames.co.uk and didn't find scam reports or complaints. The evidence package confirms the site belongs to TOXIC GAMES LIMITED, an active company registered in England & Wales (company number 07382475) since 2010.
Domain Timeline
- Jul 17, 2010Domain registered
First appeared in WHOIS records — 16 years old today.
- Jul 24, 2026Latest security review — Reviewed as safe
This scan re-ran every check and found no active threat signals.
toxicgames.co.uk has operated for years with no threat signals in this review — a long, stable track record, though it is never a guarantee on its own.
Threat Detection
Antivirus Engines
Security Scans
Checked against the major public blocklists used by browsers and security tools — no hits.
Reputation Sources
How this domain rates across independent threat-intelligence and blocklist providers.
Technical Details
domain · encryption · redirects · server reputation · referencedThe 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.
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 email uses the site's own domain — legitimate shops usually do.
- Contact address uses a free-mail provider (gmail.com) — unusual for a real business.
- No phone number listed on the page.
- No postal address visible on the page.
- Links to 20 social profiles.
Domain & Encryption
Redirect Chain
- 1301http://toxicgames.co.uk/
- 2200https://www.toxicgames.co.uk/
Server Reputation
Referenced Domains
Outbound domains this page links to or loads resources from. Each links to its own security scan.
What to do
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 toxicgames.co.uk and not a lookalike like t-oxicgames.co.uk.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
If you have first-hand experience with this site — good or bad — share it with the MalwareTips community.
Final Verdict
This is the official website of Toxic Games, a legitimate UK video game studio. The domain is 16 years old, the company is registered with Companies House, and no antivirus engines or scam reports flag the site.
Safety FAQ
Common questions, 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 toxicgames.co.uk, so it appears legitimate. All 92 antivirus engines we queried report it clean, and the domain is 16 years old, registered on July 17, 2010 — established domains are far less likely to be scams. Even so, always double-check the exact address in your browser, because phishing emails routinely spoof real, trusted domains like this one.
- toxicgames.co.uk passed our automated checks with a trust score of 93/100. No antivirus engines or major blacklists flagged it at the time of the last scan, and its signals line up with an established, legitimate site. Treat any unexpected login prompt or payment request on it with the same caution you would anywhere.
- Yes — and this is worth understanding. Even trustworthy domains get spoofed in phishing emails (a fake message that only looks like it's from toxicgames.co.uk), and legitimate sites are occasionally compromised on specific pages. A clean verdict means the site itself checks out today; it does not mean every email or link claiming to be from toxicgames.co.uk is genuine. Always reach the site by typing the address yourself rather than clicking links in unexpected messages.
- No — all 92 antivirus and blocklist engines in our malware network currently report toxicgames.co.uk as clean. That's a good sign, though antivirus coverage is only one of the many signals we weigh, and brand-new scam sites can appear clean before vendors catch up.
- No — toxicgames.co.uk is not currently on the major browser blocklist feeds that Chrome, Safari, Firefox, and Edge rely on. Note that blocklists can lag behind brand-new scam domains, so "not listed" is reassuring but not a guarantee on its own.
- toxicgames.co.uk is 16 years old, registered on July 17, 2010 through Fasthosts Internet Ltd. A multi-year registration history is one of the stronger signals against a scam, though it's never a guarantee on its own — established domains can still be misused.
- Yes — toxicgames.co.uk presents a valid TLSv1.3 certificate issued by Let's Encrypt · YR1, valid for another 61 days. Important caveat: SSL only encrypts the connection between you and the site — it does not verify who runs it. Almost all scam sites now have valid SSL too, so a padlock alone never means "safe".
- toxicgames.co.uk resolves to an IP operated by Squarespace, Inc. in US (Content Delivery Network). Hosting location alone doesn't make a site good or bad — but hosting that doesn't match a brand's claimed country, or that sits on networks known for abuse, is one of the many signals we weigh alongside the verdict above.
- This report is a record of the scan run on July 24, 2026, and the verdict reflects that point in time. Scam sites change fast — they can go live, get flagged, or vanish within days — so if you believe something about toxicgames.co.uk has changed, MalwareTips staff can run a fresh scan that re-checks every signal from scratch and republishes an updated verdict.
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