Elden Ring GeoGuessr turns the map into a boss fight
How well do you know the Lands Between?
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What you need to know
Elden Ring is different from previous FromSoftware titles in quite a few ways, but undoubtedly, its map is what stands out the most. Compared to the likes of Dark Souls and Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, which were mostly made up of linear levels connected to one another in a non-linear fashion, Elden Ring goes full open world and drops players into one of the largest and deepest maps in all of gaming. But while the overwhelming scale and depth of the Lands Between is intimidating at first, most players are able to commit its landmarks, features, and overall topography to memory as they explore and learn to navigate the world’s many,manydangers.
If you’re a seasoned Elden Ring player and you’d like to put your knowledge of its map to the test, you’ll love the fan-madeElden Ring GeoGuessrgame that recently hit the Lostgamer.io library. Inspired by the officialGeoGuessr, which challenges players to pinpoint real-world locations using Google Street View images, the Elden Ring GeoGuessr tasks you to do the same with a map of the Lands Between and screenshots of over 8,000 in-game locations. The closer your guess is to the exact location shown in each picture, the more points you’ll get. The game is completely free, and can be played in your web browser.
When setting up a game, you can tweak several settings, including which map region you’d like to guess locations from (pick the Full Map option for hard mode), how many rounds there are, and the length of the round timer. You can also enable or disable the ability to pan, zoom, or move the screenshots presented in each round, which will make the game easier or harder respectively. Notably, Elden Ring GeoGuessr also supports multiplayer, allowing you to compete against friends.
“My friend and I have been on a mission to create a GeoGuessr-like experience for our favourite games. Elden Ring was high on that list, and I’m happy to say after much trial and error, we were able to capture over 8,000 locations in the overworld of Elden Ring,“wroteReddit user u/TheEldenChild, one of the game’s creators. “We captured hundreds of thousands of raw images, before stitching them together to create the 360 degree panoramas. We also created a semi-decent satellite map of the world, to allow more accurate guesses.”
The game is incredibly well-made and fun to play, and as a result, it’s become a bit of a hit since it released a few days ago. I tend to get pretty good scores since I’ve played throughElden Ringmultiple times and know the Lands Between like the back of my hand, but I’ve also been stumped by several obscure locations that I haven’t visited much during my playthroughs. Give it a shot and see how you do — and for a laugh, keep an eye out for enemies and bosses frozen mid-animation in the stills.
Elden Ring is here, and it’s available for $60 on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, Windows PCs, and PlayStation systems. It’s one of thebest Xbox gamesyou can play right now if you’re a fan of challenging action RPGs, and as such, we strongly recommend it. Between its amazing gameplay, phenomenal presentation, and its staggering amount of overall content, it’s an absolute triumph.
Elden Ring
FromSoftware’s latest role-playing game took the world by storm, so much so that it ended up winning Game of the Year 2022. It’s easily one of the best games ever made, and we can’t recommend it enough.
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Brendan Lowry is a Windows Central writer and Oakland University graduate with a burning passion for video games, of which he’s been an avid fan since childhood. He’s been writing for Team WC since the summer of 2017, and you’ll find him doing news, editorials, reviews, and general coverage on everything gaming, Xbox, and Windows PC. His favorite game of all time is probably NieR: Automata, though Elden Ring, Fallout: New Vegas, and Team Fortress 2 are in the running, too. When he’s not writing or gaming, there’s a good chance he’s either watching an interesting new movie or TV show or actually going outside for once.Follow him on X(Twitter).
