Games Like GeoGuessr: 7 Free Browser Picks Compared

Checked: October 29, 2026. Each site loaded in a desktop browser; prices and limits from the developers' own pricing, FAQ and about pages, App Store data from Apple's lookup API. We read and loaded these games; we did not play long sessions, so nothing below rates how a 50-round streak feels.

The comparison table

If the plan is a game night rather than a solo streak, the browser games to play with friends list covers the drawing and word games that handle bigger groups. This page stays with geography.

What GeoGuessr gives you for free, and what $47.88 a year buys

GeoGuessr's free page is honest about the deal. The Daily Challenge is "5 locations, refreshed daily". Explore mode with "1000+ official and community maps", Duels and party games are all marked "Included in subscription". The pricing grid, which we loaded on October 29, puts Ad-free, Private parties, Creator mode, Unlimited play, Community play and Play on Steam in the Unlimited column, and leaves the free Limited column with one checkmark.

Screenshot: GeoGuessr pricing page (geoguessr.com/pricing), captured by GameBrief on October 29, 2026. Price row cropped because it showed our local currency.

The January price change is what sends people looking. GeoGuessr's support page says the US price for a yearly Pro Unlimited plan moved from $2.99 a month ($35.88 a year) to $3.99 a month ($47.88 a year), and the monthly plan from $4.99 to $6.99. On the r/geoguessr thread about it, user Pummpy1 wrote on January 27, 2026: "I just want the game, 5 rounds in random places." Another subscriber in the same thread, Mobile_Bad_577, kept paying: "I think I get more than my money's worth."

Both are right, and that is the whole decision. If you want ranked Duels against strong players and the community map library, nothing free replaces GeoGuessr. If you want "5 rounds in random places", read on. For scale: $47.88 covers any two of the seven Steam games in our indie games under $20 list, and those you keep.

GODEEPER: Daily puzzle people tend to collect several. Our games like Wordle list sorts eleven free daily games by what you guess, with Worldle and Globle cross-listed there for word fans.

WorldGuessr: the closest free match

WorldGuessr is the one to try first. Its home page describes the same loop as GeoGuessr (Street View, look for clues, pin the map) and states "There's no round limit and nothing to subscribe to." You do not need an account for singleplayer; a free account keeps stats and an ELO rating. The modes cover what GeoGuessr charges for: ranked 1v1 duels, 2v2 team duels, private parties, a daily challenge and a Country Guesser mode for beginners.

The numbers on its own page, read October 29: 93 official country maps, 79,401 maps made by players, up to 5,000 points a round, and a Google Play rating of 4.9 from 1,703 ratings. The live counter showed about 5,600 players online when we loaded it. The code is public on GitHub, where the last commit was dated October 27, 2026, and it is built by one developer, codergautam.

Our call: WorldGuessr wins on "GeoGuessr but free". The catch is the one you would expect from a one-person project: no company stands behind it, and the Street View coverage comes from Google like everyone else's. If it disappears, you lose your ELO, not money.

Geotastic: crowdfunded, and it shows

Geotastic is a free Street View quiz run by a developer called Edu, who streams on Twitch. It needs a free account (email and password only, per its privacy page), and its home page lists quick play with up to two friends, highscore hunts, challenges, a custom local game and online GeoBingo. Two features are locked behind "Supporter Level 1", a one-time €3 payment, or until "this month's api costs are financed by other players". On October 29 the monthly coverage bar read minus €84.18, so those locks were on.

In the same price thread, Mallakar's replies were just a link to geotastic.net, once with the word "free". We get why: €3 once beats $47.88 a year. But the account wall and the cost meter make it the second pick, not the first.

City Guesser: video instead of panoramas

City Guesser plays first-person city videos hosted on YouTube and asks where you are. Its about page dates the launch to August 13, 2020, and says it was made during the pandemic "in hopes of allowing users to see the world in a different way." Modes on the home page include Worldwide, USA, Europe, Monuments and single countries such as Japan and India, plus a newer Streaks mode. A private room for friends is free, and the site asks for Ko-fi donations to stay that way.

Video changes the skill. You are reading shop signs and number plates as they pass rather than zooming into one frozen frame, which suits people who find GeoGuessr's panorama-dragging tedious. The minus: you cannot walk down the road to look for a clue the video does not show. If half your group would rather draw than guess, skribbl.io (up to 20 per room) and Gartic Phone (up to 50) from our friends list are the drawing alternatives.

TimeGuessr: place and year

TimeGuessr is the one with a different question. Its App Store listing says you get "real historical photographs from around the world" and must "guess when and where each photo was taken". The site's home page offers a random game, multiplayer and a daily challenge, and there are iOS and Android apps. The iOS app holds a 4.86 average from 2,747 ratings, last updated October 21, 2026.

Screenshot: TimeGuessr home page (timeguessr.com), captured by GameBrief on October 29, 2026

Our call: the best pick on this page for a history fan, and a decent one for a family that will argue over the App Store listing's own question: "Think you know your 1960s from your 1980s?" We did not find a pricing page on the site, so we have not listed what, if anything, it charges for.

Worldle, Globle and Seterra: for the two-minute version

These three are not GeoGuessr clones. They are quick daily geography puzzles, and they suit people who liked the knowledge part more than the exploring part.

Worldle shows a country or territory outline and gives you six guesses, with distance and direction hints after each miss. Antoine Teuf started it in early January 2022; its about page says it hit 10,000 players within its first 10 days. It also has a practice mode and an archive, and a paid "Passport" removes ads. The same studio, Teuteuf Games, makes Travle, which on October 29 asked for a route from Somalia to Mauritania. Worldle also sits in our Wordle-style list, next to the word games it was named after.

Globle hides a mystery country and colors each wrong guess by how close it is: hotter means nearer. The FAQ explains that distance is the minimum distance between land borders, and that the puzzle resets at midnight in your time zone. Our test browser could not draw its 3D globe, so check it on a normal laptop or phone before you decide it is broken.

Seterra is the study tool of the group: GeoGuessr's site describes "over 400 customizable quizzes" on countries, capitals, flags, oceans and lakes, "available in more than 40 different languages", first introduced in 1997. It is free, and it lives on GeoGuessr's own site.

GODEEPER: If the friend group wants something faster and louder than geography, the best io games by genre list checked which classic .io servers still have players this autumn.

Winner by what you want

For the bigger picture on browser games, including where Poki, CrazyGames and itch.io fit, start at our browser games hub.

What we left off, and why

OpenGuessr is a popular free Street View game, but its own home page bills it as "unblocked", a pitch aimed at getting around school filters. We do not cover that category, so it is not listed; the browser games hub explains the rule. Several pages that rank for games like GeoGuessr are blogs run by competing guessing games; we used none of them as a source. We also skipped AI tools that tell you where a photo was taken: that is a different hobby from guessing it yourself.

One note on prices: GeoGuessr shows prices in local currency, and from our test location the grid showed Vietnamese dong, so the US dollar figures above come from GeoGuessr's own support article, not the pricing page.

If you want a word game to sit next to your daily geography puzzle, the games like Wordle list is the companion piece, and for party games where nobody needs an account, our friends list has player caps for nine of them. The full set of our browser game pages lives on the browser games hub.

References

• GeoGuessr Free, what the free tier includes (October 29, 2026)
• GeoGuessr pricing, tier grid (October 29, 2026)
• GeoGuessr Price Changes 2026, support article with the US prices
• GeoGuessr on the App Store
• r/geoguessr: Pro subscription price increase thread, January 27, 2026
• WorldGuessr, official site, and source code on GitHub
• Geotastic, official site and supporter and privacy page
• City Guesser and its about page
• TimeGuessr and TimeGuessr on the App Store
• Worldle, about page and Travle by Teuteuf Games
• Globle and its FAQ
• Seterra, map quizzes by GeoGuessr
• Gartic Phone and skribbl.io, room sizes from our October 28 lobby check