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Walksy / WalkOff (fog-of-war walking games)

Fog-of-war GPS walking game with guild territory wars · Global indie · Active 2024-2026

Your city map starts under a mist; every step clears fog around your GPS position and reveals streets, parks, and landmarks. Add friends, join/create guilds, fight guild territory wars over city sectors.

Areas compete

Guild territory wars carve the city into sectors that guilds claim and defend; leaderboards rank guilds by steps, distance, and sectors cleared. WalkOff has a near-identical mechanic.

People support each other

Guild members coordinate which sectors to clear next, share fog-clearing routes, and rally around shared leaderboard standing. Social accountability inside the guild is the explicit design hook.

Why this is worth knowing

Combines a Disco Elysium-style 'reveal the city' aesthetic with explicit guild-vs-guild territory war - an under-the-radar variant of the territory-control genre that BelongHub almost certainly hasn't catalogued.

Statusactive
YearActive 2024-2026
WhereGlobal indie
Effort to start a local versionMonths of work
LanguageEnglish
Verificationhigh confidence
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