Self-Guided City Games Worth Playing

Looking for a self-guided city game that offers more than just a walk between pins on a map? That's what we collect here.

There are thousands of classic city quests built around the same formula: follow a route on Google Maps, answer some trivia and call it a scavenger hunt, count a few windows and call it an outdoor escape game.

That's not what this catalogue is about

We look for interactive walking experiences, mysteries and city games where someone has actually created something of their own.

There is no checklist for what makes a game interesting. Maybe a clever use of technology turns the whole city into a narrator. Maybe you get to live through a story that could only happen here. Or maybe it's something completely different — something you simply won't find anywhere else.

Our rule of thumb is simple:

Could this game be moved from Lisbon to Barcelona by changing a few place names and coordinates?

If the answer is yes, it probably doesn't belong here. If the city is genuinely part of the game, we're interested.