7 Games Like GeoGuessr That Are Actually Free (2026)

There is a very specific joy in being dropped somewhere on Earth with nothing but your eyes and having to work out where. A road sign in the wrong alphabet, driving on the left, a eucalyptus tree where no eucalyptus should be: suddenly you are a detective, and the world is the case. GeoGuessr (or "geo guesser", as half the internet spells it) built an entire game on that feeling, and then put most of it behind a subscription.

The good news is that the itch has never been cheaper to scratch. A whole ecosystem of games like GeoGuessr has grown up around it: some clone the classic street-view formula outright, some swap panoramas for satellite photos or country shapes, and one, which we will admit upfront is ours, hides an entire city under fog and dares you to name it. Here are seven that are genuinely free, what each does best, and the honest trade-off that comes with it.

Why city-guessing games are so addictive

Every game on this list runs on the same loop: you get incomplete information, you form a hunch, and you decide whether to commit now or pay for more certainty. That last part is the secret. A good city-guessing game is really a betting game. Guess early on thin evidence and a correct answer feels like genius; hedge with every hint available and a correct answer feels like homework. The tension between those two is what keeps you pressing "play again" at midnight.

With that lens on, here is the list.

1. Fog Guesser

Full disclosure: this one is ours, and it is the reason we went down this rabbit hole in the first place. Fog Guesser is a city-guessing minigame built into Fogbreaker, our walking app, and it flips the GeoGuessr formula on its head. Instead of standing inside a street view, you look down at a real city map that is completely hidden under fog. Your job: name the city.

You start each round with 10,000 points on the line. Tap the fog and a small peephole opens in the map, showing you a scrap of coastline, a highway knot, a street grid. Hints reveal the country, the population, and eventually the famous landmarks, but peeks and hints both eat into your score, so every one is a small bet against your own pride. Run the round all the way down and the final hint narrows it to a four-city pick. You get three guesses, typed in free-form, and whatever score survives is what you bank.

Rounds are rated from easy to expert, and the toughest cities stay out of the pool until you switch them on. Rounds are unlimited, the minigame is free with the app, and it runs on both iOS and Android. Fogbreaker also hands you a daily quest to bank a certain number of Fog Guesser points, so there is always a reason to squeeze in one more round.

Best for: map nerds who recognize cities by their shape, and anyone who wants a GeoGuessr-style game on their phone rather than in a desktop browser. The trade-off: it is one mode inside a walking app, not a standalone geography platform. We think that is a feature; more on that at the end.

2. OpenGuessr

The closest thing to classic GeoGuessr that costs nothing. OpenGuessr drops you into a street view somewhere on the planet, you look around for clues, and you pin your guess on a world map. No login, no round limits, straight from the browser.

Best for: people who want the original street-view experience without the paywall. The trade-off: it lives in the browser and is happiest with a mouse and a big screen, so it is more of a desk game than a pocket game.

3. WorldGuessr

Another free street-view guesser, with unlimited rounds and solid multiplayer. It runs in the browser on desktop, tablet, or phone, and its duel modes are the closest free approximation of GeoGuessr's competitive play.

Best for: playing against friends without anyone needing an account. The trade-off: like most free street-view games, imagery quality varies by region, and the mobile browser experience is serviceable rather than slick.

4. Geotastic

A donation-funded platform rather than a single game: classic drops, flag quizzes, and even a battle-royale mode where the last guesser standing wins. It is the most feature-rich free option on this list.

Best for: game night. Geotastic is built for lobbies of friends shouting at a shared screen. The trade-off: the breadth comes with setup. It wants a host, a lobby, and ideally a group, so it is less suited to a solitary five-minute fix.

5. City Guesser

Instead of a frozen panorama, City Guesser plays you a video: you are walking through a city, watching traffic, signage, and street life until you are ready to guess where you are. It is the most atmospheric game on the list, and the human pace of it is oddly calming.

Best for: people who care more about the vibe of places than the puzzle. The trade-off: video only streams what someone filmed, so you cannot explore freely, and the clues come to you in whatever order the footage decides.

6. Worldle

One puzzle a day: the silhouette of a country, six guesses, and after each wrong answer you get the distance and direction to the target. It takes two minutes, and those two minutes will teach you more about where Kiribati is than school ever did.

Best for: a daily ritual alongside your morning coffee. The trade-off: it is deliberately tiny. When the day's puzzle is done, it is done, and country shapes are the whole game.

7. Satle

Worldle's city-sized sibling: a satellite photo of a city, six guesses, and a new puzzle every day. If Fog Guesser trains you to read street grids through peepholes, Satle trains the same muscle from orbit.

Best for: satellite-imagery fans and anyone who wants exactly one hard city puzzle per day. The trade-off: one round a day, and if the city is outside your continent of confidence, that round can be over quickly.

Which one should you play?

The short version: if you want the classic street-view formula, start with OpenGuessr solo or WorldGuessr with friends, and save Geotastic for game night. If you want a tiny daily ritual, Worldle and Satle are perfect. And if you want a city-guessing game that lives on your phone and fits in a queue, an elevator, or a rest day, that is exactly why we built Fog Guesser.

Why we put a city-guessing game inside a walking app

Fogbreaker's whole idea is fog: your real-world map starts hidden, and every walk clears a little more of it, street by street. But even the most devoted walker spends most of the day not walking, and a walking app that only matters mid-walk gets forgotten on the couch days.

Fog Guesser is our answer: the same fog, pointed at every other city in the world. Your legs lift the fog at home; your brain lifts it everywhere else, from the sofa, the train, or the waiting room. It sits alongside the XP, streaks, and leaderboards that make Fogbreaker one of the walking apps that turn steps into a game, and if guessing San Francisco from a foggy street grid makes you want to finally explore your own city's streets, well, that is not an accident.