World of Warcraft fans have made a GeoGuessr-style game covering its whole virtual world

It takes a special kind of game to make you feel you know its maps as well as — maybe better than — the places you’ve lived in real life. There can be no better example than Blizzard’s World of WarcraftThis month, a celebration of 18 years and the launch its 9th expansion is held by. Dragonflight.

You can find many reasons why this is so. Its maps are vast, contiguous spaces, believably stitched together; you’ll only see a loading screen when moving from one continent (or plane of existence) to another. The regions have enormous variety and memorable character, described in Blizzard’s bold cartoon art. Through a mixture of storytelling and social moments, the gameplay fills these regions with memorable memories. And of course — especially when you’re talking about the original game’s two continents, Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor — there is the tremendous longevity and (give or take a CataclysmThese places are a permanent fixture in our lives. These places have been in our lives for a long time — my life, at any rate.

All of these things make it possible to WoWGeoGuessr is the ideal subject to create a virtual-world GeoGuessr version. This web game asks you for your exact location from one 360-degree Google Street View photo. Practice on the smaller scale. Fortnite Reddit user TheEdenChild created a GeoGuessr game that covered every area of the map. WoW Landmass, including over 100,000 places to guess. It’s free to play in your web browser. (There’s also a similar game covering Genshin Impact.)

The entirety World of Warcraft, there’s a lot to test your knowledge on, and only the most ardent WoW The player can get all. (Personally, I had the Explorer achievement for uncovering every area on the map once — but that was many expansions ago.) My first time I tried to span every map. However, I was stumped by two newer places and ended up with some spooky woods. (WoWIt has lots of haunted woods. On my second go, I limited the choices to my old stomping ground of Kalimdor — the first character I rolled was a Troll, so Durotar and the Barrens on this continent will always feel like home — and I absolutely killed it. There’s no mistaking the Spanish moss-draped trees of Dustwallow Marsh or the sunny dales and towering mesas of Mulgore if, in a funny way, it feels like you grew up there.

It made me feel proud, happy, and fortunate. What a wonderful opportunity to be able to explore these amazing worlds and get to know them well. This is something that only video games could do.