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Free GeoGuessr Alternatives: 9 Browser Geography Games

The best free GeoGuessr alternative in a browser is WorldGuessr, which offers exactly what GeoGuessr's metered free tier withholds: unlimited street-view rounds plus multiplayer duels, no account required. Geotastic adds donation-funded party lobbies, TimeGuessr makes you date historical photos as well as place them, and City Guesser swaps panoramas for real walking-tour video. Daily bites Worldle, Globle, Travle and WhereTaken round out the list. Eight of the nine were confirmed loading by our automated check on July 8, 2026, with hand-replays in progress; OpenGuessr sits behind a bot wall our scripts cannot pass, so it carries a flaky flag until a human replay. Stale or dead entries drop off automatically.

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At a glance

Quick comparison of every game on this list
GameScoreHow it differsFree?Load timeChecked
WorldGuessrUnscoredUnlimited free street-view rounds plus duels, where GeoGuessr meters free play.Free0.2 sAuto-checkedJul 8, 2026
GeotasticUnscoredDonation-funded lobby play — host a room and quiz friends, not just solo rounds.Free0.1 sAuto-checkedJul 8, 2026
TimeGuessrUnscoredAdds a time axis — you guess the year of a historical photo as well as the place.Free0.1 sAuto-checkedJul 8, 2026
City Guesser (Virtual Vacation)UnscoredGuesses from walking-tour video, not static panoramas.Free0.1 sAuto-checkedJul 8, 2026
WorldleUnscoredGuesses are countries; feedback is distance and bearing instead of letter colors.Free0.1 sAuto-checkedJul 8, 2026
GlobleUnscoredDeduces a mystery country by proximity heat on a globe, not by letters or borders.Free0.2 sAuto-checkedJul 8, 2026
TravleUnscoredConnects two countries through their land borders instead of locating a single spot.Free0.3 sAuto-checkedJul 8, 2026
WhereTakenUnscoredPhoto-based daily with distance-arrow feedback instead of free map pinning.Free0.3 sAuto-checkedJul 8, 2026
OpenGuessrUnscoredFree unlimited rounds where GeoGuessr meters its free play.FreeAuto-checkedcurrent status: flakyJul 4, 2026

The picks, ranked

  1. WorldGuessr

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    Unlimited free street-view rounds plus duels, where GeoGuessr meters free play.

    WorldGuessr is a free, open-source GeoGuessr-style game: you are dropped into a street panorama and score points by pinning the spot on a world map. Unlike GeoGuessr's metered free tier it offers unlimited rounds without an account, plus multiplayer duels and party lobbies for playing against friends. The project's source code is public on GitHub, and its own pitch is exactly what players search for: play GeoGuessr for free.

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  2. Geotastic

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    Donation-funded lobby play — host a room and quiz friends, not just solo rounds.

    Geotastic describes itself as a free, crowdfunded multiplayer geo quiz: classic street-view location guessing plus quiz-style modes such as flag and country challenges, playable solo or in hosted lobbies with friends. It is financed by donations rather than a subscription, which is how the core game stays free. The lobby system is the draw here — one person hosts, everyone else joins in the browser, closer to a party quiz night than GeoGuessr's solo grind.

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  3. TimeGuessr

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    Adds a time axis — you guess the year of a historical photo as well as the place.

    TimeGuessr crosses GeoGuessr with history trivia: each round shows a real historical photograph and you guess both where it was taken (pin on a map) and when (pick a year), with points for closeness on each axis. The daily mode serves five photos and a shareable score, Wordle-style, and there is an unlimited free-play mode when the daily is done. Free in the browser with no account, it became one of the breakout daily guessing games of the post-Wordle wave.

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  4. City Guesser (Virtual Vacation)

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    Guesses from walking-tour video, not static panoramas.

    Virtual Vacation's guessing mode drops you into real walking-tour video footage instead of static street view — watch the streets go by, then pin which city you are in.

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  5. Worldle

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    Guesses are countries; feedback is distance and bearing instead of letter colors.

    Guess the country or territory from its silhouette in six tries; wrong guesses return distance, direction and a proximity percentage. Part of the Teuteuf family of daily geography games.

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  6. Globle

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    Deduces a mystery country by proximity heat on a globe, not by letters or borders.

    Globle is a daily geography deduction game from Trainwreck Labs: there is one mystery country per day, and every country you guess is shaded on a 3D globe from cool to hot depending on how close it is to the answer. No letter clues, no distance numbers — just heat colors and your mental map of the world. It is free in the browser with no signup, and its share-grid results made it a fixture of the daily-game rotation alongside Wordle and Worldle.

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  7. Travle

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    Connects two countries through their land borders instead of locating a single spot.

    Travle is a daily border-hopping puzzle: the game names a start and end country, and you type the chain of bordering countries that connects them in as few guesses as possible. Wrong or wasteful guesses eat into a small buffer above the optimal path length, so it rewards actually knowing which countries touch. Free in the browser with no account, with a shareable result grid and hint options for when your mental map of Central Asia lets you down.

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  8. WhereTaken

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    Photo-based daily with distance-arrow feedback instead of free map pinning.

    WhereTaken shows a real photograph each day and gives six guesses to name the country where it was taken, with Worldle-style distance and direction arrows after every wrong answer. Bonus rounds after a correct guess add extra geography questions for the day. It sits between Worldle's silhouette puzzle and TimeGuessr's photo rounds: real imagery, but a guided guess-feedback loop rather than free map pinning. Free in the browser, no account, shareable results.

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  9. OpenGuessr

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    Free unlimited rounds where GeoGuessr meters its free play.

    A free GeoGuessr-style game: get dropped into a street panorama and pin the location on a world map. No account required, unlike GeoGuessr's limited free tier.

    Auto-checked Jul 4, 2026current status: flaky

Frequently asked questions

Is GeoGuessr itself free?

GeoGuessr limits free accounts heavily and keeps its full experience behind a subscription, which is why this list exists. Every game here is free to start in the browser; some accept donations or sell extras, but none locked their core mode behind a paywall at our last check.

Which of these are daily puzzles rather than unlimited play?

Worldle, Globle, Travle and WhereTaken publish one shared puzzle per day, Wordle-style. WorldGuessr, Geotastic, City Guesser and OpenGuessr offer unlimited rounds whenever you want them, and TimeGuessr runs a five-photo daily plus an unlimited mode.

Why does OpenGuessr show a weaker verification note?

Its host answers our automated checker with a Cloudflare challenge (HTTP 403), which proves nothing either way about the game. It stays listed on its July 4, 2026 verification, flagged flaky, until a hand replay confirms it — we only claim what we actually observed.

Do these games use Google Street View?

WorldGuessr, Geotastic and OpenGuessr build rounds from street-level panorama imagery; City Guesser uses real walking-tour video instead; TimeGuessr and WhereTaken work from photographs, and Worldle, Globle and Travle test your mental map with no imagery at all.

How is this list verified?

Every entry passes an automated HTTP check that records status code and response time — the 'auto' tier shown per game. Hand replays upgrade entries to 'replayed'. Anything that fails checks or goes 120 days without re-verification is removed from this page automatically.