15 Most Addictive GPS Location-based Mobile Games (2025)

Updated on April 23rd, 2025 by Quertime Writer in Gaming

Do you remember that snake game in the Nokia mobiles? This is what now the GPS location-based smartphone games have made us. We all have become that snake who wander around just to get his reward. Moreover, no one knows why people are getting addictive to the location based games and why it is providing satisfaction to the certain degree. However, location-based games niche are still very small as compare to the other niches of mobile gaming but due to the involvement of people in these games, they have become the new trend in mobile gaming.

We all know about the success of the Pokémon Go. However, there are many other games too which is providing the same fun and excitement that Pokémon Go did. The app stores of Google and Apple has many GPS location based that have even more features than many famous games. However, due to no or low marketing, these games are still not known by the people as they should be. That is why I decided to write an article in which I will introduce my readers to the 15 extremely addicting GPS location based mobile games which will change your taste in gaming.

1. Pokémon GO

Launched in partnership with Niantic, Nintendo, and The Pokémon Company, Pokémon GO is the latest AR mobile game that merges virtual and real-world worlds. Basically, the game will be based on going for fun adventures with Pokémon that live around us. Players have to locate Pokémon on the map and then have a chance to catch them or interact with them through virtual battles. The app will help players connect with real-life communities by enabling sharing of stories, learning of new skills, and just having a good laugh during the gameplay. Players have to pair up, communicate, and engage with each other in a nice way, which adds quite a bit of adventure in the quest and challenges presented in the game.

2. Ingress Prime

Ingress Prime is an augmented reality game created by Niantic in which two opposing groups fight each other: Enlightened and Resistance. In order to accomplish the objective of this game, the players have to travel through real locations to capture portals, to unite them in order to form control fields, and then to wage strategic battles against an opposing faction. The socializing, teamwork, and exploring in the game will transform the entire world into a digital battlefield. Ingress Prime developed its uniqueness in its thick, elaborate plot, in community events, and in how it affected other location-based games.

3. Jurassic World Alive

In this game developed by Ludia called Jurassic World Alive, dinosaurs make their way into our world with the use of augmented reality. The GPS function allows players to venture out into the world in which they live to discover and collect a number of different dinosaur species. The players may create their own dinosaurs and improve them; engage with others in battle, and participate in special events; all that is possible. Jurassic World Alive allows its users to play with the realism and location-based features for a more immersive experience as they get to meet the dinosaurs they love with the excitement of the action.

4. Landlord

The landlord translates the real world into the market of virtual property. The players can buy, sell, and trade virtual property that is based on their actual locations through GPS technology. When a player navigates around in their city, there are always opportunities to purchase such landmarks, businesses, or famous spots. It forces the players to strategize and be wise in building a virtual real estate business. Players can interact, negotiate, and compete with others, providing social aspects to it and giving it that interactive, real-life gaming feel.

5. Geocaching

Geocaching is regarded as the conception of location-based games. In its inception, it used basic principles of high-tech treasure hunting. GPS coordinates were used to find hidden containers, or “geocaches”, hidden by fellow geocachers on five continents around the globe. Groundspeak Inc. in 2000 was a stepping stone for an international gathering of explorers. Geocaching incites an adventure to the outdoors as players get a taste for finding treasure hidden in various environments. There are millions of geocaches around the world, but it is about the exploration, the discovery, and the sheer thrill of unearthing treasures from mysterious places.

6. Zombie, Run!

Zombie, Run! Transforms the tedium of running into an exciting adventure. It’s a GPS location-based mobile game with both fitness and survival horror elements. Players take on the persona of a survivor in a post-apocalyptic world, surrounded by zombies. Interactive narrative-based exercise motivates the users to run while jogging, by bringing virtual zombie armies and the urgency to gather necessary supplies by getting a step ahead of the hordes. Real life environments add atmosphere and give a spookier feel to the game. It combines the real-world surroundings of exercise and gameplay so that the exercise and gameplay feel fluid.

7. Pikmin Bloom

Pikmin Bloom meshes the Pikmin world with augmented reality GPS navigation. This new augmented reality game fuses the cute Pikmin creatures with the real world as the players grow virtual flowers, capture Pikmin, and explore the environment through their smartphones. It brings the augmented reality garden into reality as it asks the player to tend to it by going out into nature. The players go walking while Pikmin assist them, with the game bringing an aspect of companionship and care for nature. It really focuses on engagement with the real world, growth, and the unique wonder of the mobile game experience.

8. Dragon Quest Walk

Dragon Quest Walk is another location-based game developed by Square Enix. The game, which is set in the same world as Dragon Quest, sends the player on a quest to save the world by exploring their immediate vicinity. A real map is utilized for such battles, quests, and discovery of the famous Dragon Quest monsters. By way of the AR feature, the player will be able to see the monsters and characters from the beloved franchise in their environment and live out a magical experience with a touch of fantasy blended in reality.

9. Resources Games

The Resources Game merges strategy with an element of exploration. Like the real world, players find out and utilize various quantities of resources scattered in various geographical regions they are assigned. Real life is brought into their experience as players use GPS technology to map out an area they are in, making the game exploration quite realistic. Players collect their resources and engage in trading, collaboration, and competition, thus creating social and strategic game dynamics. Resources Game provides a unique method to draw in players based on the very essence of real geography and resource management.

10. Orna: The GPS RPG

Orna is a GPS RPG that allows players to virtually explore the real world. Using GPS technology, the game provides a gigantic virtual world, which is set within the real world. Players will go on a quest as they investigate the surroundings created by Cutlass Software. Every journey, determined through the GPS system, will bring in a dungeon, a monster, or an encounter that will lead to a journey of adventure. With deep class systems, real-time battles, and player-driven economies, “Orna” brings conventional RPG elements to real life, promoting outdoor exploration and cooperation. GPS adds another layer of depth to gameplay, offering an intriguing experience for fantasy RPG enthusiasts.

11. City Domination

The City Domination is a location-based mobile game wherein the player is to change cities into virtual battlegrounds to fight the competing players, wherein they have to control virtual territories in order to win that were supposed to have been conquered in real geographical locations. The social aspect of the game makes interaction, exploration, and strategy to battle one another for territory really interesting. The virtual world of City Domination comes alive with players all over the world. This offers something entirely unique and engaging in gameplay which would demand strategic thinking and really exploratory play in the real world. The players then join in and challenge their opponents to rule over their city, thereby making it a fun and exciting mobile strategy game.

12. Magic Streets: GPS Realm Game

Magic Streets turns the real world into a magical one. This game, built by Shadow Masters, invites you to explore the vicinity to gather items, cast spells, and fight with other players. The game play is highly dependent on the location from which the player is situated, with different areas giving out unique items and unique challenges. This game sets out to take the player into an imaginary yet believable land where the players navigate through the neighborhoods they live in, discovering hidden treasures and interacting with a virtual world overlaid onto the real one. The game involves exploration, strategy, and interaction with other players, which is why it becomes a captious and enchanted game play.

13. Wokamon

Wokamon merges physical activities with gamefishing by making one’s exercise an adventure. To catch and collect cute virtual creatures named Wokamons, the players must get up and walking, running, or even more exercise. With each step, one’s virtual buddies’ well-being and growth would benefit from the step, representing a completely new approach to tracking physical activity. Wokamon comes equipped with cute creatures to motivate people to move, while simultaneously strengthening the bond that the players feel for their virtual pets. GPS technology allows the actual movements of the person to be integrated into the gameplay in a fun and engaging manner.

14. Turf Wars

Turf Wars is an exhilarating GPS-based mobile game in which strategy meets real-life exploration. It is made by MeanFreePath, where players compete for the control of territories in a digital battlefield inside your city. Players can literally walk around the city, taking control of and defending an area by GPS. Thus, this virtual turf war really takes place in your physical world. Besides, players make alliances with each other in a friendly way in competition for dominance within their local neighborhoods. Interactive gameplay with some social touches brings urban territory into the domain of competitiveness, culminating in absorbing yet strategic play.

15. The Walk

The Walk is a GPS location-based fitness mobile game, designed to turn the act of walking into an adventure. Created by the same people who developed Zombies, Run!, The Walk provides a thrilling narrative in which the player is put into the shoes of the protagonist of a suspenseful story. To win at the game, players must walk a distance, and after completion, the next chapter unfolds. GPS is used to tell the real-world story with your real-world motion. It incorporates GPS location to tell the real-life story using your real-life movement. This includes exercise and even a compelling story in the quest for motivation to reach a set of step goals each day.

16. Revenge of the Gang

This game, Revenge of the Gang, is an action and location-based GPS augmented reality game. In this game, the player takes on the identity of a member of a gang, wherein they get to do things like fighting, stealing, and other real-life activities that do happen. It makes the game extremely realistic, as GPS allows the generation of gameplay features that are virtually played alongside the player’s real-world environment. Players engage in a competitive and fast-paced multiplayer arena, establishing alliances, devising strategies to strike, and conquering territories. The game is something altogether new with something unprecedented in its premise: its based on AR, GPS technology, and gang war gameplay. Get ready to enjoy the game as the lines between the virtual and the real worlds continue to blur thin.

Author: James Hunter

After his Master in Literature from the Stanford University, the passion of writing grew in James, and he is writing blogs on now almost every niche like mobile gaming.