About SV.GAMES

SV.GAMES is a search engine for multiplayer game servers. Right now it is watching 138 180 servers with 157 360 people playing on them.

What makes it different

Every server directory has the same weakness: it asks servers to describe themselves. Server owners want to look busy, so a lot of them are not honest about it, and a list built on self-reported numbers slowly becomes fiction.

We ask the servers directly, using the query protocols they already expose to game clients, and we publish what they answer. When a server reports a number we have reason to doubt — a full server with nobody in the player list, a count that never changes — we say so instead of repeating it. One game in our index claimed 1.16 million players across its servers; the number we could actually verify was 745. Both figures are interesting. Only one of them is true.

How pages get made

Most of this site is built by software, and the rule it follows is simple: a page exists only where there is real inventory to fill it and real evidence that people search for it. No page is generated on the chance that someone might arrive. When a page stops being useful, the same system takes it out of the index.

What we do not do

• We do not host or operate game servers.
• We do not use publisher artwork. Every illustration here is our own.
• We do not sell rankings. Position is computed from measured activity and reliability.
• We do not invent statistics, and the text on our pages is checked against our own data before it is published.

Who runs it

SV.GAMES is operated by Ivory Software LLC, 30 N Gould St, STE R, Sheridan, WY 82801, United States. It is an independent project and is not affiliated with any game publisher.

Run a server that should be listed? Add it — we will query it and list it once it answers. Anything else: get in touch.