This is a list of geolocation-based video games, also known as location-based video games. The games on this list typically run on a mobile phone using GPS for geolocation. Some games on this list also have augmented reality features.

Title Platform Developer/Publisher Release date Notes
BotFighters[1][2] Java ME It's Alive Mobile Games AB! 2001-03-14 One of the first location-based games[3]
Sidewalk Squirrel[4][5] Windows Mobile Sneaker Entertainment 2005 Discontinued
SpecTrek[6][7] Android Games4All 2009
Shadow Cities[8][9] iOS Grey Area 2010 Discontinued
Turf (video game)[10][11] iOS, Android Andrimon 2010-07-10
Ingress & Ingress Prime[12] iOS, Android Niantic 2013-12-14
Colors[13] Gizmondo, iOS, Android[14] Indie Studios N/A Game was cancelled and later released separately
Pokémon Go[15] iOS, Android Niantic 2016-07-06 Also has augmented reality functionality
Draconius GO [16] iOS, Android Elyland 2017
Maguss[17][18] iOS, Android Mawa 2018-02 Discontinued
Jurassic World Alive[19][20][21] iOS, Android Ludia 2018
Ghostbusters World[22] iOS, Android NextAge 2018
The Walking Dead: Our World[23] iOS, Android Next Games 2018
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite[24][25] iOS, Android Niantic, WB Games San Francisco 2019 Discontinued
Dragon Quest Walk[26][27] iOS, Android COLOPL, Square Enix 2019
Let's Hunt Monsters[28][29][30] iOS, Android TiMi Studio Group, Tencent Games 2019
Minecraft Earth[31][32] iOS, Android Mojang Studios 2019 Discontinued
Catan: World Explorers[33][34] iOS, Android Niantic, Catan GmbH 2020 Discontinued
Pikmin Bloom[35][36] iOS, Android Niantic 2021 Collaboration with Nintendo
Magic Streets[37] iOS, Android Build it Games 2020 Guilds, Multiplayer fights

See also

References

  1. ↑ "BotFighters for Mobile - GameFAQs". GameFAQs. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
  2. ↑ "It's Alive!". Archived from the original on 2005-02-07. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
  3. ↑ "Can You See Me Now? | Location Based Game". Blast Theory. Retrieved 2022-10-09.
  4. ↑ "Location Based Games Patent Application".
  5. ↑ "Sidewalk Squirrel Site Archive". Archived from the original on 2006-11-04.
  6. ↑ "SpecTrek - Android app on AppBrain". AppBrain. 2009-12-17. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
  7. ↑ "SpecTrek - Apps on Google Play". play.google.com. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
  8. ↑ Hill, David J. (2011-07-08). "Players Rule Their Real Neighborhoods with Shadow Cities, a Location-Based MMORPG for the iPhone (VIDEO)". Singularity Hub. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
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  10. ↑ Lundgren, Erik (2015-07-21). "Mobilspelet som håller dig aktiv". norran.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 2022-10-10.
  11. ↑ "Hundratals deltagare väntas till "Turf-VM"". Barometern. 2016-05-17. Archived from the original on 2016-05-17. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
  12. ↑ "Ingress Prime". Ingress Prime. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
  13. ↑ Graham-Rowe, Duncan (2005-06-12). "Gamers turn cities into a battleground". New Scientist. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
  14. ↑ Freer, Carl (2015-11-30). "Carl Freer to Launch Colors for iOS and Google Play, the World's First GPS-Based, Open-World Shooter". Marketwire. Archived from the original on 2015-12-06. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
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  16. ↑ "Welcome to Draconius GO!".
  17. ↑ Conditt, Jessica (12 August 2016). "'Maguss,' the game that definitely isn't 'Harry Potter Go'". Engadget. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
  18. ↑ "Maguss - Wizarding MMORPG - app store revenue, download estimates, usage estimates and SDK data | Apptopia". apptopia.com. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
  19. ↑ Bell, Karissa (2018-03-06). "Augmented reality dinosaurs are here thanks to 'Jurassic World Alive'". Mashable. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
  20. ↑ Reilly, Luke (2018-03-07). "Universal Announces Pokémon Go-Style Jurassic World Mobile Game". IGN. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
  21. ↑ Takahashi, Dean (2018-03-07). "Ludia unveils Jurassic World Alive mobile game". VentureBeat. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
  22. ↑ "IGN: Ghostbusters World Announced". 23 February 2018.
  23. ↑ "THE WALKING DEAD: OUR WORLD COMING JULY 12TH FROM NEXT GAMES AND AMC".
  24. ↑ "NIANTIC, INC. AND WARNER BROS. INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT ANNOUNCE PARTNERSHIP FOR HARRY POTTER: WIZARDS UNITE, AN AUGMENTED REALITY MOBILE GAME INSPIRED BY J.K. ROWLING'S WIZARDING WORLD". Niantic. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
  25. ↑ Colby, Clifford (2021-08-08). "Harry Potter: Wizards Unite is Pokemon Go with magic wands - CNET". CNET. Archived from the original on 2021-08-08. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
  26. ↑ Inc, Aetas. "「ドラゴンクエストウォーク」，ゲーム要素を紹介する企画「おさらい冒険記」がスタート。第1回は「スマホをもって、ぼうけんにでかけよう編」". 4Gamer.net (in Japanese). Retrieved 2022-10-10. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  27. ↑ "『ドラゴンクエストウォーク』クエスト形式で進むゲームの流れを紹介。目的地を決めて歩んでいくのは、自分自身！ | ゲーム・エンタメ最新情報のファミ通.com". ファミ通.com (in Japanese). Retrieved 2022-10-10.
  28. ↑ Ye, Josh (2019-04-24). "There's a Pokémon Go clone from Tencent that copies almost everything". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
  29. ↑ Huang, Zheping (2019-04-13). "China now has game that merges Pokémon Go and CryptoKitties into one". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
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  31. ↑ Hardawar, Devindra (17 May 2019). "'Minecraft Earth' makes the world your augmented reality playground". Engadget. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
  32. ↑ Campbell, Colin (2019-05-17). "Minecraft Earth is Microsoft's wild shot at the next Pokemon Go-style AR blockbuster". Polygon. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
  33. ↑ Forde, Matthew (2019-11-20). "Location-based Catan: World Explorers mobile game using Niantic's Real World Platform". Pocket Gamer. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
  34. ↑ Kumparak, Greg (2019-11-19). "Is this Niantic's next game?". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
  35. ↑ Stein, Scott. "Pikmin Bloom: How Niantic and Nintendo's new game mixes walking, memory and AR". CNET. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
  36. ↑ "Nintendo teams with Pokemon Go studio Niantic on AR apps". The Business Times. 2021-03-23. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
  37. ↑ BuildItGames. "Magic Streets: The location based medieval RPG". MagicStreets. Retrieved 2023-10-10.
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