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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.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.
Title Platform Developer/Publisher Release date Notes
BotFighters[1][2][unreliable source?] 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][unreliable source?][7][unreliable source?] 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][unreliable source?] Indie Studios N/A Game was cancelled and later released separately
Pokémon Go[15][unreliable source?] iOS, Android Niantic 2016-07-06 Also has augmented reality functionality
Draconius GO [16] iOS, Android Elyland 2017
Maguss[17][18][unreliable source?] 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][unreliable source?] 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
Monster Hunter Now iOS, Android Ninatic, Capcom 2023
Melody World [37] Android Daniel Santer 2024

See also

References

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  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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  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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  19. ^ Bell, Karissa (2018-03-06). "Augmented reality dinosaurs are here thanks to 'Jurassic World Alive'". Mashable. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
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  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.
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  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)
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  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.
  30. ^ "《一起来捉妖》亮相新文创生态大会-一起来捉妖官方网站-腾讯游戏". zhuoyao.qq.com. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
  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. ^ "GPS-based AR Multiplayer about Music & Rhythm".
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