GeoGuessr Reviews

Unfinished games doesn’t work. Puts you back at location 1/5 even though it says 2/5 or 3/5 in the top corner. Then if you guess the location of 1/5 it will still think you are at the one you should be at. This happened twice in one game.
1st location i got right it was new zealand. 2nd and 3rd i got right as well. 4th I knew was somewhere in washington but then I had to go do something so i took a break. I come back, hit unfinished games and there I am in new zealand again - same location as map 1 - and I can move freely around, yet it says map 4/5. I guessed new zealand but then it says im actually in washington US like I initially thought, thousands of miles away. 0 points for that one.
Next map is somewhere in Asia. I move around a bit then I have to go do something again. I come back, hit unfinished games and im in that same spot in new zealand yet again. So I guess south korea because I learned from my mistake (apparently didnt learn enough though because the same bug happened twice) and it says i was in tokyo, got like 2000 points because i had to rely on the small amount of info i gathered before i had to take a break.

I would play this game all the time if GeoGuessr version was like the browser version & let you choose maps other than the whole freaking world.

Even so, I love the game so much I paid $3/month and stuck to the browser version, until it got so gd glitchy I couldn’t take it anymore. I’ll be walking along and then suddenly it freezes, I have to refresh & the map starts over or disappears. Sometimes you can double click far ahead on the map to move quickly forward, but other times you can only use the arrows to inch forward, which is not fun when the game drops you in the middle of nowhere. If you come to an intersection of more than 2 roads, the arrows overlap & it’s impossible to go in certain directions.

The audacity to charge a subscription fee & provide paying customers with either an incredibly limited app or a clunky, glitchy browser game. I’m a huge map nerd & I adore the concept, but I just canceled my subscription because the execution is so bad. If they add all the features to GeoGuessr , I’ll give them my $3.00 again.

Elegant concept: you are placed somewhere in the world in Google Streetview, and need to figure out where you are. You set the rules and the time limit, or can play competitively. If you’re just competing against yourself, you can set the rules: for example, do you just go by the general look of your surroundings, or limit yourself to evident languages and street signs, or ask for help from old Professor Google? Your call.

There are multiple games within the game, corresponding to countries or cities. However, you need to earn your way into these by racking up points. You start out with a general “The World” game, which is fairly hard. Lots of country roads in the middle of nowhere. It’s worth it to “unlock” additional games, using the points you’ve earned.

Warning: it’s addictive!

Great game but a few glitches take the fun out. First, many times it won’t let me move around at all so it’s very hard to figure out where I am. Don’t drop us at a place where the map won’t advance us please. Also, sometimes it accidentally marks a spot as my final answer and ruins the game for me like tonight you dropped me on a bridge and it wouldn’t let me move but I was planning to guess and I opened the map and it marked a spot for me then told me I was wrong and my guess was actually right so I got mad...grrrr, lol. My only other complaint is it tends to choose the same location a lot. I’ve been dropped off at the Louvre at least 7 times now.

But I still love this game 😊

This game used to be a lot of fun that I would play for years where you could pass some time by being able to play unlimited games for free and unlocking specific geographical areas after collecting a certain amount of points. Unfortunately, I’m going to have downgrade my rating of the recent update of GeoGuessr two stars.

The main reason is because you only get three unpaid games per mode you want to play but if you want to unlock the full version of the new update, you have to pay a fixed monthly fee of three dollars per month. I would understand if the game implemented a one time fee, but I really don’t think it is worth paying a monthly fee for a simple geographical guessing game.

If you religiously play this game every day, then maybe the $3.00 per month might be worth it, but for someone just looking to pass some time every now and then, I really don’t think the payment is worth it.

This was an incredible game at first, although the options of gameplay were limited. Of course, even though it’s understandable that they’d need money to have this running without ads, it’s easy to just have microtransactions in the background for new powers or features that you can buy. Many games have been ruined when the developers decided that in order to keep it running, the players need a subscription. Subscriptions are the WORST form of purchases that can be available for a game that is free to play originally. A one-time pass is good to have in the background, but it shouldn’t be a subscription, because those are just terrible ways that developers show how greedy they are. You guys ruined this game and while I did originally have fun, it’s been ruined by your new decision. Even if you revert things it’s likely many people won’t come back, as they’re likely playing one of those free-to-play ripoffs of this that are almost identical to yours.

I used to love GeoGuessr before the update and would have given it 5 stars. I unlocked 7 different maps and it was a ton of fun. Now with this update it has removed all of the maps I have unlocked and has given you only 2 options, battle royale (or battle bull**** as I call it) and the whole world. No more major cities, or regions I was interested in getting into. I spent many hours unlocking those maps. Beyond that, now you can only had 3 games a day without pouring out money in a subscription plan. Absolutely ridiculous. At least if you want to make money, just show an add every 3 rounds if you want. This is greed by the developers trying to railroad you into paying for their dumb subscription. If there was a way to revert to the old version I would. Until something changes I am going to tell everyone I know to stay away. Disappointing this app, very disappointing.

this app is a fun and addicting game that makes you want to learn. I have learned more than any other game with this app. It’s simplistic design makes it easy to navigate. It’s easy to learn but hard to master, making it a game that’s you’ll never get tired of. You can unlock more maps over time and having higher skill gives you higher reward to get the new maps. The only problem is that some of the maps are very low quality. That happens a very low portion of the time because the maps are constantly being updated with Google Streetview. I recommend this to anyone and everyone because its a fun and engaging game.

More variety in locations is needed. When playing the "World" map, you end up in a Scandinavian country (often Sweden), Brazil, or Russia with disproportionate frequency. I have lost count of the number of times I have been in Brazil. The same is true for the "Major Cities" map, just add Tokyo and some city in Mexico to the mix. I have not played the other maps, so I do not know how they compare. Location issues aside, I really enjoy the game. It is fun to see different places around the world and decipher where you are from clues such as road signs, website addresses, languages on signs. Overall I recommend getting this game. It is even worth spending a few dollars to play additional maps.

When I first discovered this game I was intrigued. Once I played it I was hooked! It is so fun to see the various parts of the world and it’s crazy how you notice things that you never would if you were just casually walking around in the given place - that’s the truly amazing thing about this game.
However, despite how fantastic and amazing this game is, I frequently run into a problem (almost every time I play now) where the Street View just freezes on me and I have to abandon all the progress I’d made during that round. If it only happened occasionally, I probably wouldn’t be even writing this review and I’d be playing this app instead. Sadly it happens far too often.

hi uh i loved this game so much i played it with family everyday but then after the update you only got 2 free games to play and that is horrible and i’m not going to pay money because i loved it and wanted to play it for fun and FREE. To play the pass and play where you can play with people you know on the same platform where you each get random places and you get to choose where to play with friends and family and it was fun but now you guys removed it and made it that you had to PAY to play and i’m not going to do that all i want is for it to be free and so you don’t have to pay to play unlimited which is what you could of done before for FREE and you used to have the pass and play mode. So this update lost the love for the game.

I assume a lot more will be added in the future so I’m going to ignore the lack of features and maps in the game. But as for the BR mode, the gameplay and UI could use some changes. First of all, I like how easy the controls are, and the extended timer is nice. However, we should be able to move around while waiting for the next round. Also we should be able to see a list of players and their guesses maybe in a side bar that maybe you can toggle open and closed, especially after you’ve already made it to the next round or been knocked out. Finally I think we need a stats page. Overall it’s a good start for the BR mode, I look forward to future updates.

Me and my mom love playing this game together on our phones. We’re not very geographically savvy so this game is really just a way for us to pass the time and learn a thing or two. However, this update completely ruined that for us. The single player mode was completely replaced with battle royale mode which is something me and my mother are not interested in at all, we just want to explore and have fun, not compete against others. Additionally you have to now pay to play on a phone, which is fine with us, but not if it’s just a mode we don’t want to play. I’m not sure why they completely replaced GeoGuessr version instead of putting both modes up and letting the user lock what they want to do. We will both be deleting GeoGuessr and finding a new one that is as similar to geoguessers single player mode.

This game feels like a game I will be playing the rest of my life. It’s super addictive, but only because you start to get good at recognizing different places. It has even caused me to start analyzing roadsides in movies and TV shows!

My only reason for 4 stars is that sometimes there is a block of blurred images or blackness which persists in the same part of the field of view and never resolves, even when I move to different places on the map or . I’m not talking about the google maps blurring, which stay with the objects. You can’t force quit GeoGuessr and then resume a game, so I don’t know how to get rid of it.

An interesting idea, this is a moderately addictive game. It’s only marred by user interface problems, and the fact that it will occasionally crash when running in the background and cause me to lose hours of work. It desperately needs either a rework of the user interface, or pop-up confirmation dialogs for the return to initial location button and the green button in the lower right. Also, It would be nice to have it save games so that you could at least to recover a little of what you’ve done after it crashes. It would also be nice if you could control movement with a single tap instead of a double tap.

Edit: deleted game after the third time I got to picking the location on the last round and it exited the game and I lost all my progress. It seriously needs an “Are you sure?” function.

I am a high school student who made it a tradition to play with one of my better friends after school, right before practice. It was a way for us to laugh and enjoy being together while having fun. Unfortunately, yesterday I went to play with him and had to update GeoGuessr . Now that the game is pay to play we can’t play anymore and it is just depressing. There’s a reason the phone app had a better review than the game on the computer. I know you guys will probably make more money now but the image of your company has been stained. I hope that this was a necessary addition for the company because if it was optional, you guys missed completely. (btw these guys don’t respond to criticism comments about the subscription because they don’t care. It’s saddening)

I have been playing this game for YEARS I loved it! But now you can only play 3 games!!!!??? The. You have to pay to play the game? That’s just plain wrong at least let the game be playable without a premium membership! Not just 3 games and leave! That is just ridiculous! 30$ a year and 3$ a month? Really? Maybe if it was lower I would not complain but that is just unnecessary for a game that’s been free for years i would not mind paying for the better version but monthly or yearly fees is just dumbfounding me I will pay a one time payment like maybe $20 for full game forever but 30$ a year is just astonishing for a game that’s been free for years now you have to pay just to play?

I love the hell out of GeoGuessr! I just have a few suggestions. First, can we have the option of "anywhere but Russia?" It's just such a huge area, and unless you're really comfortable with the Cyrillic alphabet, you have to just guess. Second, because you have to constantly tap the screen to move, can you hide the little flag that sends you back to where you started? I've been very frustrated after 10 minutes following a road and accidentally bumping the flag while shifting my hands. Besides that (and the occasional crash), I love the game and I play it every day!

What seems to be an interesting app with one BIG caveat: unless you only want to play once a day, ONCE, this is an app that you have to pay $2.99 per month to play. A bit less if you pay for a year. C’mon developers just be honest UP FRONT. Why make us download THEN hit us with the pay-to-play crud? You can play 1 game (5 parts in each) per day! Had no idea after reading GeoGuessr description.
Also please note: YOU NEED TO BE VERY VERSED IN FOREIGN LANGUAGES TO DO WELL WHEN PLAYING. If not many of the games will be very difficult and take much too long to get even a remote clue as to where you’re at. Interesting app but not well advertised or described in GeoGuessr Store.

I loved this game but don’t play often. I haven’t played in a while so was very disappointed when I opened it to kill some time and maybe open a new map and encountered the update. I really liked being able to sit with a friend of mine for hours and wander through the maps. I liked being able to pick smaller regions than the whole freaking world. If they wanted to switch to a paid version they should have made a new one with some extra fun features that you couldn’t get in the original version and let the original alone for those of us who are more casual users. I wouldn’t even mind paying a 1 time fee of a few bucks but this whole subscription crap for everything is getting out of hand.

Seriously I never realized how much of the world is bare blank empty roads lined with various shades of green and brown. So yeah you can tap for a looong time before you find a clue. But once you get that little bit of information- a language, a highway number, a road sign- then it gets addicting. If you land in rural Russia and don’t read the language then yeah you’re done for. There a tendency to repeat certain places a lot... Russia, Canada, Brazil... it’s almost as if they’re enormous countries or something. But one time the game put me in a small Canadian town in front of a building with a Canadian flag and a map of the town! Ya just never know.
One thing I would like is some indication of how far you’ve traveled from your previous location. After tapping my way through Alaskan wilderness for awhile Ive likely lost track of distance and have no idea where I am in relation to the original drop point.

I’ve been a long time player of this game and it is my absolute favorite game. However when I created my account on the web browser version, I signed in using Google or Facebook (I can’t remember which lol). But recently I paid for a pro account after the free version change. It is totally worth the money but I can’t sync my maps to my phone because I can’t sign in using the alternate options. Is there a way around this? The mobile version is still amazing otherwise!

The concept is quite brilliant and simple in its scope. Look around, find clues, then guess where you are! I would love to be able to navigate better as it’s a little choppy and it’s hard to really get anywhere quickly...but I still like it! I probably won’t play this game every single day, but I’ll certainly give it a go from time to time!

Overall...well done!

Now...I will come back and give this a terrible rating IF it becomes clear that it’s virtually impossible to keep playing without making in-app purchases OR if ads start popping up too much. That’s a deal breaker for me.

This game has done wonders for my wanderlust during lockdown. Getting to see parts of the world we’d never see otherwise... we play by one of us casting the game from an iPhone to the TV while the other has the laptop who can research clues. We’ve managed to earn enough points to unlock many of the maps avaialable. It’s a shame though that some countries are not part of the world map. Would love to see more of Japan, Central America, NZ, and the Middle East/Turkey. Overall one of my favorite games though!

When you click the flag to return to the start point it doesn’t save where you were looking on the map, it resets everything. So you have to go back to the map and try to find where you were just looking. I have to remember where I’m at before I click back to the start point and then try and find it all over again on the map. Also the compass does not make any sense at all. If I’m looking straight north with the red pointer straight up and I turn to the right, which should be east it moves in the opposite direction. The compass needs to rotate in accordance with which way you are turning

This is one of the best games on GeoGuessr Store. It's addicting, but not in the way that many other games. You'll be coming back not because the game designer made the game in such a way that it purposely pulls you in to drain your cash, but because it's simply a great game. Other reviews have said the game is a little buggy and I will agree with that, but it's nothing that can't be easily patched, but if those bugs cause you not to play this game it is your loss.

I absolutely love this game!! Is it really fun to find the exact spot where you are dropped. BUT GeoGuessr needs serious programmer work. It‘s very frustrating to spend time trying to find clues, etc and then the game crashes just as you are about to place the pin. The pinch gesture is so unreliable that I’ve started taking screenshots so I can zoom in on things via iPhoto. BUT I look at the photo on my phone while playing the game on my 2020 iPad because if I open another window, the game might crash. I would definitely pay for this game. Charge a fee and fix the glitches, please.

I’ve been pretty glued to this “game” for a few days now. I’m having a blast virtually exploring new places. I feel like Sherlock Holmes.

One star lost because sometimes it’ll drop you on a random beach somewhere and the “move” function isn’t very sensitive - the double tap to move forward or back either doesn’t work or can’t get you to anywhere that you can decipher any relevant information. Would love for the movement sensitivity to be more intuitive or controllable.

Fun game initially, husband and I love games we can be competitive in and appreciate the fact we were even learning a bit! Bought 2 additional maps to enjoy what we thought would be even more fun and GeoGuessr began to crash every 5-10 minutes afterward. Gave it a chance but after almost an hour of this struggle gave up. Could not get through even 3 rounds before an error message popped up. Closed the game, made sure I had the most updated version, tried reopening- crashing continued. Very frustrating that right after putting money into it this happens. Would have just continued with the free map where we had no issues.

I’m really in love with this game! Because we can’t travel right now, I’ve been exploring random places on google earth, but finding this game made it so much more fun! I’m actually really impressed with the variety of places, although I do get put on a lot of highways, which I guess makes sense. I can’t wait until the battle royale version comes out for GeoGuessr , as I think that making it a competition will be really fun.