Welcome back to Cheater.Net.
If you’ve been here before, it’s good to see you again. If this is your first time, welcome. You’ve arrived early, and this post explains what that means.
The short version: the site is back, but it’s being rebuilt. There isn’t much in the library yet, and some sections are empty. That’s deliberate. Below is where Cheater.Net came from, what it is now, and how it will grow.
A little history
We should start with the name, because it causes confusion. The cheater.net domain is old. It was first registered in 1996 and has changed hands since then. Whatever was done with it before us isn’t our history, and we won’t claim it. This community has not been around since the nineties, and we’re not going to pretend otherwise.
Our story starts in the early 2020s, with a simple idea: put community-made cheats and tools in one place, instead of scattered across a dozen download sites of questionable quality.
By 2022, that place was a forum. People posted releases, asked for help and argued about what actually worked, across boards for Fortnite, Apex Legends, Valorant, PUBG, GTA V and more. The loader download sat right beside the threads.
Alongside the forum came MadUI which then renamed to CheatCenter, a desktop app that put every game and tool in one window. You signed in with your Cheater.Net account, so your profile and rank followed you from the site into the app.
Not all of it went well, and a history post that skipped that part would be dishonest.
Most of what went wrong comes down to one thing: we trusted the wrong people. As Cheater.Net grew, we brought in staff, developers, partners and co-admins faster than we got to know them. Some of them didn’t deserve the access they were given.
The results were about what you’d expect. Projects failed or were abandoned halfway through. Staff left without warning, so support was good one week and missing the next. Partners walked away. Some of our projects Source code was leaked. Some co-admins used their position to scam members even us the founders. Some projects that went out under the Cheater.Net name had malware embedded in them. And a lot of smaller problems were misunderstandings that turned into fights because nobody was communicating properly.
We’re not going to name names, and we’re not going to pretend none of it was on us. We let those people in and gave them the keys. Whoever did the damage, it happened on our watch, and members paid for it. If you were one of them, we’re sorry.
If you ran software from Cheater.Net during that period and you’re not sure about it, treat it as untrusted. Remove it, run a full scan, and change any passwords you used on that machine, starting with your email, Discord and game accounts.
That history shaped almost every decision in the new site. New publishers go through moderator review, anyone can report a file, and ban risk is rated by the members who ran something, not by whoever uploaded it.
Where the site has been
Eventually it caught up with us. Projects shut down, most of the people who were left moved on, discord server and the old site came down. For a while, typing cheater.net into your browser got you little more than a holding page.
A rebuild, not a restoration
We could have thrown something back up quickly: a forum theme, a few hundred copied threads, a download button. We didn’t want to. Alot has changed. Recreating the old site exactly would mean rebuilding something designed for a world that doesn’t exist anymore.
So we kept the idea and rebuilt everything else. The new Cheater.Net isn’t a forum. It’s a library: a place to find mods, trainers and cheats for the games you already play, with enough information on each one to decide whether it’s worth running.
How the new site works
- Browse by game or by type. Every game has its own page under Games, and Discover sorts everything into free cheats, injectors, trainers, scripts, tools, mods and data packs.
- Free to download. Anyone can browse. Downloading only needs a free account.
- Every release is dated. Each mod keeps its releases version by version, with the date of each one and a changelog of what changed. You can always see how old a download is.
- Ban risk is rated by players, not by us. The old forum had “Undetected, Unsafe, Outdated and Updating” labels, and a label is only as honest as whoever set it. Now, members who have run a mod vote on whether it got them banned. The result only shows once enough people have voted, so one vote can’t make something look safe.
- Anything can be reported. A broken download, a reupload of someone else’s work, or a file your antivirus flags: use Report on the mod and a moderator will look at it.
- Members can publish. If you make something, share it from Publish. Until your role is trusted to publish directly, a moderator checks each submission before it goes live. Read the Rules first.
Why it looks empty
Let’s be direct about this. There isn’t much in the library yet. Not even close.
Some categories have one or two entries. Some have none. You’ll probably find a rough edge or two along the way. If you do, tell us. It genuinely helps.
We’re not going to fill the site with hundreds of low-quality uploads just to make it look active.
Making a site look busy is easy. Copy posts from elsewhere, reupload old files and slap an “updated” label on everything. You’ve seen those sites. Half the links are dead, the dates are fake, and nothing tells you what still works.
We’d rather list twenty things worth downloading than two thousand that waste your time. Everything on the site is either checked by a moderator or published by someone we trust, and anything that slips through can be reported. The library will fill in gradually, as each piece is ready.
For the people who remember
If you were around for the forum days, MadUI, or the busy Discord era, thank you. The community built Cheater.Net as much as anyone who ran it.
This is a new chapter, not a replay. Some things will feel familiar and some will feel very different. If you’re wondering what happened to something specific from the old days, whether it’s a tool, a thread or a person, ask us on Discord. We’ll answer as honestly as we can.
For new visitors
If you’ve never heard of Cheater.Net before, here’s what we are: a library of community-made mods, trainers and cheats, kept version by version and rated by the members who ran them first. You’re showing up at the start of a rebuild, which means you’ll see it grow from here and have a say in what it becomes.
One piece of honesty up front, because we’ll always give it to you straight: using third-party tools in online games breaks most games’ terms of service and can get accounts banned. No tool is risk-free, and we won’t pretend otherwise. Check a mod’s ban votes and release dates, understand what you’re running, and make your own decisions.
The best way to get involved right now is to join the Discord, make an account, and tell us what you’d like to see next.
What’s coming next
Over the coming weeks and months, the library will fill out. Here’s roughly what’s on the way:
- More games, and more mods, trainers and tools for each one, added as they’re checked.
- Site updates and news on the blog.
Some plans will change along the way. The goal isn’t to freeze Cheater.Net in time. It’s to build something useful for the community today.
The founders
@3nv0y is the very founder of Cheater.Net followed by the co-founder @zerobytez.
Welcome back
To everyone who was here before: welcome back.
To everyone discovering Cheater.Net for the first time: welcome.
The site isn’t finished, and there’s a lot of work still to do. But the doors are open again, and this is only the beginning. Keep checking back.
Cheater.Net is back.
Written by @zerobytez & @npmdev