Games Like GeoGuessr: 7 Worth Playing in 2026

GeoGuessr took a small, almost primal instinct, working out where you are from the look of a place, and turned it into a worldwide hobby. Once you have played enough of it, the obvious question is what to play next. The good news is that "where am I?" has grown into a whole genre, and several of the offshoots are excellent. Here are seven worth your time, grouped by what they actually ask of you.

Pure geography deduction

GeoGuessr is still the benchmark. You are dropped into a street-level view somewhere on Earth and you pin your guess on a map. The skill is in reading clues: the script on a road sign, the species of roadside tree, which side of the road cars drive on, the angle of the sun. It rewards patient observation, and competitive play has produced genuinely expert players.

City Guesser works from short video clips instead of static panoramas, which changes the feel. Motion gives away things a still frame hides: traffic patterns, how people move, the rhythm of a place. It is a good palate cleanser if street-view static images have started to feel samey.

Daily, Wordle-style map puzzles

Worldle shows you the silhouette of a country and gives you six guesses, with each wrong answer reporting the distance and direction to the target. It is the most direct fusion of Wordle's once-a-day format with geography, and it is genuinely hard if your mental map of national outlines is shaky.

Globle hides a mystery country and colours each guess by how close it is on the globe. There is no distance readout, just hotter and colder, so you triangulate by region. Like Worldle, it is one puzzle a day, which keeps it from eating your evening.

Guessing when, not just where

This is where the genre gets interesting, because it adds a second axis: time.

Timeguessr shows you a historical photograph and asks you to place it both on the map and on a timeline. You score on how close you land in space and in years. It is the clearest example of the "where and when" puzzle, and the photographs themselves are often striking.

timemachina takes the same instinct and pushes it past the photographic era. Instead of a found photo, each scene is a reconstructed 360 panorama you can look around, built from historical research about a specific place and year. You guess where on the map and how far back in time, then step inside the moment and read what was really there. Because the scenes are rendered rather than photographed, the catalogue reaches into antiquity, far beyond the roughly 180 years that photography can cover. You can try the daily challenge or browse the atlas of reconstructed places.

Travle rounds out the list with a different idea: you are given a start and end country and have to connect them through a chain of neighbours, like a geography crossword. It rewards knowing which countries actually border each other, which turns out to be harder than it sounds.

How to pick

If you want raw visual deduction, stay with GeoGuessr or try City Guesser. If you want a quick daily ritual, Worldle and Globle are built for exactly that. And if the part of GeoGuessr you love is the detective work of reading a place, the time-based games will scratch a deeper itch, because you are reading not just a location but an era. That is the whole premise of timemachina: the clues in a scene tell you not only where you are standing, but how long ago.