Helplessness, despair, and Street View come together in ‘GeoGuessr’ Google Maps game

Google Maps is usually for helping you navigate, but a new game based on Street View is about being almost hopelessly lost. GeoGuessr drops you at a random Street View location across the earth, leaving you to move around the map as much as you’d like before ultimately taking a guess at where you’re actually standing. Though you’ll occasionally get lucky and start off right in front of a hotel billboard printed with a city’s name on it, for the most part you’ll be wandering around country roads, scrounging hints off of signs and license plates, and trying to make it back to civilization. ThoughGeoGuessr a relatively simple game, it almost recalls the confusion and wonder ofMyst, right in our own world. The game runs through five rounds of guessing before giving players a final score, though unfortunately, there’s no built-in leaderboard yet to show how you stack up against fellow lost travelers.