MapTap.gg

This is undoubtedly my favorite iteration of daily challenge games that have popped up in recent years. The challenge is unique and refreshing, and the stats interface and opportunities to practice and enhance your geographic knowledge is excellent! Everyday I enjoy doing not just the 5 cities for scoring, but all the practice maps. I’ve loved this game so much I told so many of my friends about it, excited to add them as friends and compare our daily scores, only to realize that this game has no mechanism for adding friends outside the pay-to-access ‘groups’ feature. I think that groups being pay-walled is perfectly fine, but to not have another way to connect with your friends feels super regressive to the growth of this game. Further, adding a bunch of separate friends to my one group would be kinda awkward because many don’t know each other. This aspect of the app unfortunately feels poorly thought out, and I hope that there are more social features pushed soon, in which case I’ll updated this review.

This game is absolutely phenomenal! My family and I downloaded the game and now we compete everyday. We made a groupchat that includes my grandparents, and it gets pretty competitive! And get this: there are absolutely no ads, it’s not one of those annoying games that’s constantly sending notifications (I don’t think I’ve even gotten one), and it’s completely free!! This has bonded my family in such a big way for such a small thing. As someone who doesn’t know much geography, it’s still fun and helps me! There are countries I had never even heard of on here! Also, with each location there are little history facts that are so well written and interesting to read. I would recommend this for anyone, history lover or not, it’s an amazing app!!

I want to thank the person who invented this app and writes all those clever and interesting facts and stories about the sites every day. My sister and I compare our scores every day and we're both so happy to be learning new things. We end up studying maps and the globe every day to try to improve ourselves, and we are learning so much! And I'm also grateful for the time that the man mentioned that there was a disabled person who was accidentally getting the wrong answers from tapping while spinning the globe on the app and that that was a confirm choice button that could be turned on. We are not disabled, but had often accidentally had that happen to us and we were very glad to learn of that choice , and our scores have also gotten better from using that confirm or clear, So thanks for mentioning that. We needed it! This app is absolutely so much fun and educational. It's just wonderful.