Games like WhereTaken
WhereTaken shows you a photo and asks where on Earth it is, with distance-and-direction feedback after each miss. These daily games run that exact loop with cities and travel data.
By the FlightQ team — we build and play these games daily. Updated June 2026.
The closest free alternatives to WhereTaken are PassportQ (guess the world city from travel-photo and data clues, with distance and compass feedback on every miss) and CityQ (daily visual city identification). AirportQ adds the map-recognition angle. All are free daily browser games with shareable results.
The same photo-then-feedback loop
WhereTaken's loop is look, guess, learn the distance, guess again. PassportQ keeps every beat: the mystery city opens with visual and landscape clues, and each wrong answer returns how far off you were and which direction to move. The arrows turn a blind first guess into a converging search — the core satisfaction WhereTaken players are there for.
Clues a photo can't give you
Photos reward having been somewhere; data rewards understanding it. PassportQ layers temperature, population, elevation, and local time on top of the visuals, so a city you've never seen can still be deduced — 30°C in January with a UTC+7 clock eliminates most of the planet before you've placed a single landmark.
Five thousand cities deep
Photo games live and die by their location pool. The city pool here spans 5,000+ places worldwide and rotates daily with no repeats inside a month, so the long tail stays genuinely unfamiliar — you will get days where the answer teaches you a city you've never heard of, which is rather the point.
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Which game is closest to WhereTaken?
PassportQ — photo-flavored clues plus distance and direction feedback after every miss, in a one-a-day shareable format.
Is it country-level or city-level?
City-level, which makes it harder than WhereTaken's country mode — two candidate cities can be near neighbors, so the endgame takes real map knowledge.
Is there a results grid to share?
Yes — a spoiler-free emoji grid with your guess count and streak, built for group chats exactly like WhereTaken's.