ThinkOfGames.com Guides Review: Legit, or 70 Self-Reviews?

ThinkOfGames.com is a real gaming blog that has been online since 2021, but it is not the trusted guide hub its pages claim. It has published 70 articles about itself, named after the exact phrases people search, and its homepage carries casino links. For game guides you can rely on, go to PC Gamer, Polygon or a game's official wiki instead.

What is ThinkOfGames.com?

A WordPress blog about video games, with sections for Minecraft, gaming news and guides. Its About page calls it "your best resource for all kinds of gaming-related content", says "Joesph is our main writer", and ends: "The information is curated from the internet and thus the copyright belongs to respective owners." The domain was registered on 10 January 2021, according to the public domain record, which hides the owner's name.

Its sitemap lists 2,585 posts, the oldest dated November 2021. About half have gaming words in their addresses, among them Minecraft farming guides, Counter-Strike skins and FC 27. A fifth, 525 posts, are about casinos, betting or lotteries. The site's categories include casino, bitcoin, ethereum, ripple and "regulation" alongside Minecraft and Call of Duty. Author pages include handles such as "pm_author_k15nd2" and names such as "Thalyrith Qylandrisp" and "Qyntharilx Vexandryth".

Are ThinkOfGames.com guides any good?

Some are ordinary, readable game guides, such as a long Minecraft kelp-farming walkthrough by "Steven Emmons" on the homepage. But the page at thinkofgames.com/guides, where you would expect an index of guides, is instead an article called "How To Use ThinkOfGames Guides: The 2026 Quick-Start Guide To Finding Reliable Game Walkthroughs". It is a guide to the site's own guides, written to match the search "thinkofgames com guides". The page at thinkofgames.com/reviews does the same for reviews. It is titled "Reviews of Thinkofgames.com: Unveiling the Gaming Experience", is written by the "ThinkOfGames Crew", and calls the site "a trusted resource in the gaming community".

thinkofgames.com/reviews on October 17, 2026: a review of ThinkOfGames.com, by the "ThinkOfGames Crew".

The About page names one writer, "Joesph", with no surname or profile, so the expertise behind a guide is hard to judge. Treat a ThinkOfGames walkthrough as you would any anonymous one. Check it against the game's own patch notes or wiki before spending in-game currency on its advice.

Why would a site write 70 reviews of itself?

Because of how the searches for it look. In Ahrefs' data on 17 October 2026, the plain name "thinkofgames" is searched 20 times a month in the US and almost nowhere else. Yet "guides thinkofgames .com", with a space before ".com", shows 11,000 searches a month in France, 3,800 in Germany, 3,200 in the US, 2,000 in the UK and 1,700 in Canada. Real readers type a site's name. They don't type the same oddly spaced English phrase twenty thousand times across five countries.

The site's own post sitemap shows the other half. We found 70 posts whose addresses contain the site's own name, and they are the search phrases word for word: guides-thinkofgames-com, guide-thinkofgames-com, review-thinkofgames-com, thinkofgames-com-reviews, www-thinkofgames and www-thinkofgames-com. They arrive in bursts: 7 on 31 October 2024, 10 on 3 July 2026, 6 on 11 September 2026 and 21 the next day. Some are about other domains altogether: thinkofgames.org and thinkofgames.net.

thinkofgames.com's post sitemap on October 17, 2026: on July 3, 2026, between 22:27 and 22:50, the site published ten posts named after searches for itself.

Google Trends, which samples real searches and filters out repeats, shows the result. In the US, interest in "thinkofgames" read zero in every week of the past year. Worldwide it averaged under 1 on Trends' 100-point scale, against 49 for "gimkit", a classroom quiz game, over the same year. Only France registers anything. There, interest rose from the week of 15 March 2026, peaked in the week of 2 August, and fell to 1 and then 0 in the two weeks before we checked.

Put together, the pattern is a site manufacturing interest in its own name. Searches for its name are generated in bulk, and it publishes pages that rank for those exact searches. Other "review" blogs then write about it, because a name with 20,000 monthly searches looks worth writing about. We have documented the same pattern at Techsslaash.com and Lapzoo.com.

The site also hides from one of the tools that would show its links. Its robots.txt lets every crawler in except two, AhrefsBot and AhrefsSiteAudit, so Ahrefs cannot map which sites it links to or who links to it.

What are the casino links on ThinkOfGames.com?

The homepage links to 58 other sites, 54 of them through image badges, and none of the links is marked nofollow or sponsored. Most go to casino and betting sites. A box on the homepage asks for readers' favourite game and answers it: "Our favorite games are the ones at casinos not on GamStop that we can't stop playing", with the casino part linked to a casino directory.

thinkofgames.com on October 17, 2026: Minecraft guides beside a link to "casinos not on GamStop".

GAMSTOP is the free British scheme that lets people with a gambling problem block "access to accounts on gambling websites and apps". A casino "not on GamStop" is one that this block does not reach, which is the selling point to the people the scheme is meant to protect. On a site whose guides are read by Minecraft players, that link is worth knowing about.

Inside the casino posts, the pattern holds. A post about the betting brand 1Win and another about online casino "RTP" link to the operators with only rel="noopener", and neither says it is sponsored. Google's spam policies list "Buying or selling links for ranking purposes" as link spam unless the links carry rel="nofollow" or rel="sponsored".

Is ThinkOfGames.com safe?

Reading it is safe enough; it is an ordinary WordPress site, and we loaded dozens of its pages without anything unusual happening. Two things deserve care. The casino links, on the homepage and inside posts, lead to gambling sites, some of which sell themselves on being outside self-exclusion. Keep them away from children who use the Minecraft guides. And the "reviews" calling the site trustworthy are written by the site itself, so they are no evidence either way.

Where to find real game guides instead

Google itself answers the search "guides thinkofgames .com" with other sites, and they are the better choice:

• PC Gamer guides and Polygon guides: walkthroughs and explainers by named staff writers.

• GamePressure: long walkthroughs and FAQs for large games.

• Official wikis: for Minecraft, the community-run Minecraft Wiki records exactly how each block and mob behaves in each version, which is what a kelp-farm or door guide needs to get right.

How we checked

Everything was done on 17 October 2026. Pages were loaded in a clean headless Chromium browser, and links and their rel attributes were listed. The three post sitemaps were downloaded with curl, and their 2,585 addresses were sorted by the words in them, with the same script used for our Techsslaash and Lapzoo reviews. Counting from addresses is coarse, so counts can be off by a few. Posts "about the site" are those whose address contains "thinkofgames".

Search volumes come from the Ahrefs API, and the US results page for "guides thinkofgames .com" from the same day. Google Trends figures cover the past twelve months for the US, France and the world. The domain date comes from whois.com and the RDAP record. Screenshots are unedited crops of the live pages. We did not create an account, buy anything, or contact the site.

Frequently asked questions

Is ThinkOfGames.com legit?

It is a real website with real gaming posts, online since 2021. But much of what makes it look popular is manufactured: 70 posts review or describe the site itself, the searches for its name do not behave like real readers, and its homepage carries casino links. Use it with caution, and check its advice elsewhere.

What is thinkofgames.com?

A WordPress blog with Minecraft and other game guides, gaming news, and a fifth of its posts about casinos, betting and crypto. Its About page says its content is "curated from the internet".

Are thinkofgames.com guides good?

Some are readable walkthroughs, but the authors are hard to verify, and the page at thinkofgames.com/guides is a promotional guide to the site's own guides. For anything that costs in-game currency or time, cross-check with PC Gamer, Polygon or the game's wiki.

Why are there so many reviews of thinkofgames.com?

Many are written by the site itself: we counted 70 posts about thinkofgames.com on thinkofgames.com. Others are review blogs drawn by the search volume, which Google Trends suggests is largely not human.

Is thinkofgames.com safe for kids?

The game guides themselves are harmless, but the homepage links to casinos, including ones that advertise being outside Britain's GAMSTOP self-exclusion scheme. A guide site without gambling links is a better choice for children.