Buyer's guide

How to pick a safe game cheat provider

Most of this market is anonymous sellers on throwaway Discords. The checks below are the ones that actually predict whether you'll get what you paid for — written by an operator, and yes, we hold ourselves to them.

1. A public detection status board

A provider that hides detection state is deciding for you whether it's safe to load. Look for a page that lists every product's current state and when it last changed — not a Discord message that gets deleted after the fact. Norium publishes this at /status and mirrors every transition into Discord automatically.

2. Timers that pause when a build goes down

If a product goes on update for three days, a fair provider does not bill you for those three days. Ask directly: does my licence clock keep running while the build is offline? If the answer is yes, your 30-day key is not a 30-day key.

3. Written refund terms, not vibes

Unredeemed keys should be refundable inside a stated window. Redeemed keys and post-activation bans generally are not — that is normal and honest. What is not normal is a provider with no written policy at all, because that means the answer is decided after you complain.

4. Instant, automated delivery

Manual delivery means you wait for a human to wake up. Automated delivery means the key is assigned the moment payment clears, with the same key visible in your account, your email, and a DM. If a store asks you to DM a seller for the key after paying, that is a chargeback risk for you.

5. Requirements published before you pay

Secure Boot, virtualisation, Windows build number, supported CPU vendors, whether a HWID spoofer is required — all of this should be on the product page. Discovering post-purchase that your machine is unsupported is the single most common reason people ask for refunds.

6. Real setup documentation

Screenshots, launch order, and an error index for the failures that actually happen. A provider whose entire documentation is 'run as admin' has not supported enough customers to know what breaks.

7. Support with a paper trail

Ticketed support beats staff DMs. Tickets are logged, transferable between staff, and cannot quietly disappear. Providers who only do DMs also make it easy for impersonators to scam their own customers.

8. Payment methods that leave you with recourse

Card payments through a real processor give you dispute rights. Crypto is fine as an option — it should not be the only option. A store that is card-only-if-you-ask, crypto-otherwise is usually one that cannot keep a merchant account.

9. Honest language about risk

Nobody can promise you will not be banned. Any provider that guarantees undetected forever is selling you a feeling. Undetected means current state, verified recently — it is a status, not a warranty. Treat the guarantee as the red flag.

Check us against the list

Live status board, paused timers during downtime, written refund policy, automated delivery, published requirements, per-edition guides, ticketed Discord support, card and crypto both accepted, and no undetected guarantees anywhere on this site.