Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Battle.net
The 20 closest video game distribution alternatives to Battle.net, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 5 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Battle.net? The closest matches are Blizzard North, wargaming.net and Gaijin. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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01 · Entity
About Battle.net
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Wikidata: online gaming platform
Summary by Claude
Battle.net is Blizzard Entertainment's desktop launcher and online service for buying, downloading and playing Blizzard and Activision games, with multiplayer matchmaking, friends lists, chat and account management.
- Who it’s for
- PC and console gamers playing Blizzard and Activision titles
- Business model
- Game sales and in-game purchases
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Battle.net’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Battle.net
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Battle.net, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read battle.net’s homepage (too many redirects), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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Blizzard Entertainment
Creators of the Warcraft, Diablo, StarCraft, and Overwatch series, Blizzard Entertainment is an industry-leading developer responsible for the most epic entertainment experiences, ever.
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Wargaming.net games — the full list of games available for players on the official website
A catalogue of games produced by an award-winning online game developer and publisher. Legendary and new games from Wargaming for PC, iOS, Android, Xbox and Playstation.
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Gaijin Entertainment
Gaijin.Net — Online Games Distribution Service
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Chess.com - Play Chess Online - Free Games
Play chess online for free on Chess.com with over 250 million members from around the world. Have fun playing with friends or challenging the computer!
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War Thunder — Realistic Military Vehicles Online Combat Game for PC, Xbox and PlayStation. Play for Free
Play for free with friends in the most realistic online game
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League of Legends Homepage
League of Legends is a team-based game with over 140 champions to make epic plays with. Play now for free.
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Irish software development company
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Electronic Arts Home Page - Official EA Site
We exist to inspire the world through Play. Electronic Arts is a leading publisher of games on Console, PC and Mobile.
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일시적으로 페이지를 불러올 수 없습니다.
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Media.net | The Sell Side Platform for Greater Outcomes
We help brands and publishers leverage the best of programmatic, to achieve their goals across every screen.
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巴哈姆特電玩資訊站 - 系統異常回報
Taiwanese ACG Internet forum
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Free Online Games on CrazyGames | Play Now!
Play free online games at CrazyGames, the best place to play high-quality browser games. We add new games every day. Have fun!
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Nexon Home
2014 video game
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PlayGround.ru - Компьютерные игры, патчи, моды, прохождение игр, коды, читы, трейнеры, скачать игры
PlayGround.ru - Компьютерные игры, патчи, моды, прохождение игр, коды, читы, трейнеры, скачать игры
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LoL Stats Tracker, Rankings & Match History | OP.GG
LoL stats, match history, live games, and rankings for every League of Legends player. Search Summoner's Rift, ARAM, Arena, and every game mode on OP.GG.
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video game website
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Riot Games. Developer of League of Legends, VALORANT, Teamfight Tactics, Legends of Runeterra, and Wild Rift. Creators of Arcane. Home of LOL and VALORANT Esports. | Riot Games
Riot Games. Developer of League of Legends, VALORANT, Teamfight Tactics, Legends of Runeterra, and Wild Rift. Creators of Arcane. Home of LOL and VALORANT Esports.
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Welcome to Steam
Steam is the ultimate destination for playing, discussing, and creating games.
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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to battle.net’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Battle.net uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Battle.net is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms91053870
- Proofpoint MX mxa-00381101.gslb.pphosted.com
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1467.awsdns-55.org
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=5BDURW3z5Ld2Mi_LkCm21d23wHRx9_hqokrh1C68duo
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=wr9qqtrkyp1jejv1xr8blfn6dpowbt
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Battle.net adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Microsoft 365 11/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on battle.net 10/20
- Atlassian · not on battle.net 9/20
- OpenAI · not on battle.net 9/20
- Meta Business Suite 8/20
- Google Workspace · not on battle.net 8/20
- OneTrust · not on battle.net 7/20
- Adobe · not on battle.net 6/20
- Apple Business · not on battle.net 6/20
- nginx · not on battle.net 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 6/20
- Cloudflare · not on battle.net 6/20
- Akamai Edge DNS · not on battle.net 5/20
- Amazon SES · not on battle.net 5/20
- Next.js · not on battle.net 4/20