Short answer: if what you love is street view detective work, stay where you are. GeoGuessr is better at that, and we are not trying to be it. Here is what we do instead.
You get dropped into a street somewhere on Earth and you read the clues: the road markings, the plants, the language on a shop sign, which side of the road the cars are on. It is deduction, and it is brilliant at it.
We give you a name and a blank map with a handful of dots on it. Click the right one. There is nothing to deduce, you either know roughly where Banholt is or you do not. It is the thing school actually tested you on.
So the honest test is simple. Do you want to feel clever by piecing something together, or do you want to get better at knowing your way around a map? The first one is a puzzle, the second one is practice.
| GeoGuessr | GuessTheDot | |
|---|---|---|
| What you get | A street view | A place name |
| What you do | Point at the world map | Click the right dot |
| Skill it builds | Reading visual clues | Knowing where places are |
| Price | Free tier, then paid | Free, and the whole game is in the free version |
| Account needed | Yes | No, not to play |
| Scope | The whole planet | 192 countries, each its own game |
| How deep | Anywhere with street imagery | 134,182 places, down to hamlets of about 40 people |
| Works offline | No | Yes, once you have installed it |
| On school devices | Needs accounts and a subscription | A room code, no pupil accounts |
Every country is a separate game with its own daily puzzle, its own streak and its own leaderboard, and place names stay in the local language. A player in Portugal plays Portugal, against other people who grew up with that map. Guessing the country from a lamppost is a different hobby from knowing your own region properly.
Not just cities. 134,182 places, including villages of a few dozen people that Wikipedia has never written about. If you grew up somewhere small, it is almost certainly in here. Look it up.
You can play without making an account. The daily puzzle, practice, multiplayer with friends and the ranked ladder are all free. There is a Pro tier for a couple of extra challenges, and it exists to pay the hosting, not to hold the game hostage.
Round times are measured on the server, not in your browser, so a fiddled client cannot shave milliseconds off a leaderboard time. A shared duel is generated from a seed, so both players get exactly the same rounds in the same order. And if you leave the tab mid-round to look an answer up, the game notices.
No pupil accounts, no install, no subscription, and it runs on locked-down school laptops. The whole class joins one room with a code. There is a page for teachers.
That last one is honestly a reason to try us right now rather than later. Most of our 192 countries have no ranked record set by anybody, so the top spot is sitting there unclaimed.
No account, no download. Pick your country and see how many you get.