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24 alternatives to Where’s Waldo?

Find him in Google Maps

Where's Waldo? is a search-based game that challenges players to locate Waldo and his friends within Google Maps across five levels, with an unlockable secret level for added difficulty. Designed for fans of the… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Where’s Waldo? launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1
Find The Panda & Friends▲72
A randomly generated 'Where's Waldo?' puzzle game.
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
2
UChicago admissions asked me to find Waldo. I did.▲149
Detecting Waldo with Python for UChicago College Admissions - jacobsevart/waldo_uchicago
2012 · github.com · its alternatives →
3
Waldo▲293
Ship your mobile app faster, with fewer bugs
2020 · its alternatives →
4
Auctioneer▲69
A speedy spin to Where’s Waldo
2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
5
Google Mario Maps▲374
Navigate your world with Mario Kart 🗺️🚗
2018 · blog.google · its alternatives →
6
Waldo for Android▲113
No-code mobile testing that works
2021 · its alternatives →
7
A game that tests how well you know your local area▲654
How well do you know your area? Test your knowledge by locating streets on a map.
2022 · backofyourhand.com · its alternatives →
8
Waldo Sessions▲268
Run, inspect, share mobile apps from the browser
2023 · its alternatives →
9
Waldo V2▲167
Continuous end-to-end mobile testing
2021 · its alternatives →
10
Waldo▲128
Window into Your Best Friend's Lives
2015 · trywaldo.com · its alternatives →
11
Waldo Tracker▲4
The smartest way to find your belongings.
2019 · its alternatives →
12
Waldo Photos▲132
Safer, healthier photo sharing.
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
13
Cube▲78
A game about Google maps
2014 · playmapscube.com · its alternatives →
14
Pac-Man in Google Maps▲250
Play Pac-Man inside Google Maps
2015 · google.com · its alternatives →
15
WhichPic?▲4
Can you find your own pics?
2020 · its alternatives →
16
Waldo, a free background messenger for iOS▲14
Waldo is a window into your best friends
2015 · trywaldo.com · its alternatives →
17
Where Am I?▲10
Step into the shoes of a virtual traveler
2024 · whereamigame.app · its alternatives →
18
Location by amo▲189
The friend map is back
2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
19WM
WhereTheyAt – Map of your friends based on shared Facebook data▲21
2014 · wherethey.at · its alternatives →
20
Where in the World? ▲62
Think you know your Geography?
2015 · its alternatives →
21IW
I wrote a symmetry game with a daily puzzle▲126
I’ve been working on a puzzle game for a few years as a side project. The game is based on a small region of tiles in a grid that is mirrored, modified, and mirrored again. It’s based on a novel phenomenon I noticed where, once these mutations happen a few times, the original region can be hard to recognize. You have a feeling there are symmetries in the image, but they are just out of grasp. Going further, if only part of the region is visible, such as mirroring off the edge of the board, it adds to the feeling and it becomes a satisfying puzzle to solve. I originally published this on the…
2024 · hidden-mirrors.com · its alternatives →
22
Slick Sentence▲8
The daily Where’s Waldo–style sentence game
Dec 2025 · slicksentence.com · its alternatives →
23
Guess Where You Are▲108
Get shown a place and try to guess where it is on the map
2024 · guesswhereyouare.com · its alternatives →
24
Where in the USA is this?▲89
A cross between Wordle and GeoGuessr
2023 · its alternatives →

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