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!

I used to play this game many years ago when it was completely free, and have been hesitant to pay for it until now. I really want to give this app five stars, but as a paid app I see a flaw that makes it slightly frustrating for a product that is otherwise flawless. The big problem I see is that with ranked play (which I really enjoy by the way) has a tendency to pick locations that aren’t that random. For example, I have gotten Christmas Island more times that mainland United States. I also land in the US territories more often than the US and Canada combined. Central Asia can be quite rare to get, and being a populated country I’m a bit surprised Japan doesn’t show up more often… or South Korea. It has a huge tendency to pick European countries and especially Eastern European countries. I get the feeling that countries are weighted equally, which is cool because you get to see lots of small countries. However, I wish that certain regions of the US, Canada, Brazil and Japan were weighted equally against countries of a similar size. It would make the locations feel a bit more random, rather than constantly getting the numerous Baltic or Balkan countries where it has a strong tendency to choose from.

Game is great, been playing GeoGuessr since long before they had an app and even pro. The game is amazing and one of the best out there. The app, something to be desired. They constantly throw these silly “features” around that just take away from the experience. The latest “improvements” include a way to spend your coins to re-roll your map…. But you spend it and it will just “re-roll” to the same map more than half the time. There’s all these new motions such as the zoom in to the solution once you submit, but the latest update extends the time to showing the solution and half the time the map closes. These bugs are all existent for nothing, the “features” added don’t improve anything about the user experience. Geoguesser has always been strongest with simplicity. Do away with the silly app changes and over complex “rewards” etc. Monetize on time played and map availability, Google API costs can be high so that makes sense. Don’t charge for coins that are only usable for “rerolling” the map when it almost always gives you the same map again. Unplayable on iOS atm until things get back to basics.

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.