GeoGuessr is great. It’s also a subscription now, and the free version has been shrinking for years — fair enough, Street View licensing is expensive, but it left a lot of us looking for the next tab to open at lunch. These eight run in a browser, cost nothing, and cover every flavour of the itch.
Full disclosure before we start: the last entry is ours. We’ve tried to be honest about all eight, including our own.
Worldle
One country silhouette a day; you get six guesses, and after each one the game tells you the distance and direction to the answer. Simple shape, brutal in practice — a rotated island with no coastline context can humble anyone. It’s the most popular daily geo game in the world for a reason, and the same site has grown a little family of bonus rounds (flags, capitals, borders) once you finish. worldle.teuteuf.fr
Globle
A mystery country, unlimited guesses, and only one signal: warmer or colder, painted on a 3D globe. Where Worldle gives you geometry, Globle gives you geography — you triangulate your way across the planet guess by guess. The good runs feel like detective work; the bad runs teach you, in public, that you don’t actually know where anything in Central Asia is. globle-game.com
Travle
Get from country A to country B in the fewest steps, naming each country you pass through. It quietly tests something none of the others do: whether you know how places connect. Knowing where Austria is turns out to be different from knowing what it touches. There’s a US states version when the world map stops hurting. travle.earth
OpenGuessr
The closest thing to classic GeoGuessr without the bill — you’re dropped into street-level imagery and have to pin the location. Free, no account, and a surprising amount of content. The imagery quality varies more than GeoGuessr’s curated maps, but for the core “where on Earth am I?” experience, this is the one. openguessr.com
City Guesser (Virtual Vacation)
Instead of frozen street view, you watch real walking-tour video — crowds, traffic, street sounds — and guess the city. Hearing a language and reading storefronts mid-stride is a genuinely different skill from reading road signs in a still image. Good on a TV with the family shouting wrong answers. virtualvacation.us
Geotastic
The multiplayer one. Free, donation-supported, with lobby support so you can run proper competitions against friends — street view rounds, flag rounds, landmark rounds. Setup takes a few minutes longer than the dailies, and it’s the only one on this list we’d call a “game night” rather than a coffee break. geotastic.net
Seterra
The flashcards of geography games — click every country in Africa, every US state, every river in Europe, against the clock. It’s drill, not adventure, and weirdly satisfying for it. This is where you go to fix the gaps the other games expose. (It’s owned by GeoGuessr these days, but the classic quizzes remain free.)
GeoRiddler (ours)
Our angle: no street view at all. You get a riddle — a few lines about somewhere on Earth — and a world map. Work out the place from the clue, drop your pin, and the map tells you how far off you were. There’s one free riddle every day, plus multi-part missions where five or six riddles chain into a story: ghost towns, split cities, places with hidden numbers. If Worldle is about shapes and GeoGuessr is about clues in the scenery, GeoRiddler is about the stories places carry.
Which one should you actually open?
Five spare minutes and a coffee: Worldle or Globle. Missing the street-view feeling: OpenGuessr. Friends on a call: Geotastic. Trying to finally learn where things are: Seterra, no shortcuts. And if you’d rather decode where you’re going than be told — well, you know where we stand. We wrote a whole set of riddles about places if you want to try the flavour first. If it’s specifically the one-a-day ritual you’re after, the full guide to daily geography games goes deeper — Timeguessr, Countryle, Flagle, and the rest of the family.