Worldwide · CITY EXPLORATION GAMES IN THE USA
Every trip has one free evening. These 6 city exploration games in the USA justify the slot, priced and timed so you can decide in minutes and get back to the fun part.
You explore Haight-Ashbury with a self-guided phone game from Questo, solving clues that lead through ten stages toward Golden Gate Park. It runs offline, takes about one to two hours, and lets you stop for shops, food, or a drink. No physical guide joins you.
“The best tour you can go on in San Francisco. Very fun and entertaining! Book it and you’ll thank me later:)”
You and your private group play lead botanists in a self-guided Balboa Park mystery. Follow clues from the Carousel through Spanish Village, gardens, museums, the Old Globe, and Cabrillo Bridge. Solve 12 puzzles at your own pace, with no guide or attraction tickets required.
“I think the idea of this is great but I would have liked it to be more like an amazing race. The game had a story line that made no sense and took aways from the challenges.”
Use your smartphone to solve a self-guided mystery across Millennium Park and Grant Park. You will visit Cloud Gate, Crown Fountain, Buckingham Fountain, the Art Institute, and other Chicago landmarks while learning their stories. Plan on a brisk 1-hour-35-minute walk with no physical guide.
“At first the quest started out good until we ran into construction areas where things were being blocked. We had to use a clue/hint reveal answer which started taking the fun out of the game. We decided to continue anyways and had a problem getting into range of the water fountain. Had to use an expand radius. There were 4 of us in the group and like to get everything correct without using "points", this made the game more difficult when one person couldn't get game reconnected since she was not able to go back to last location and not be able to reach the fountain again to restart game…”
Use the Questo app to solve clues across New Orleans City Park, starting at the New Orleans Museum of Art and ending at the Singing Oak. Plan for about 70 minutes, bring water and sunscreen, and note that museum and botanical garden admission cost extra.
“This was our first outdoor quest experience and it was definitely entertaining. We did it late at night our second day in New Orleans which made it very interesting. Most clues were self explanatory. Overall, great time.”
Use the Questo app to guide yourself through 11 Philadelphia stops tied to the Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin, religious history, and the Constitution. Plan on 45 minutes to 1 hour 15 minutes, with no guide or attraction tickets required. English, private, and playable at any time.
“It was a pretty neat idea, executed a little poorly. On the positive side, it was fun hanging out in Philadelphia in the middle of the night seeing some sites and learning some things I didn't know. The game / pizzle format is a great idea, and a couple of the puzzles were fun to solve. On the negative side, the walking directions were a bit hard to follow and had us walking in circles but it would have been more fun if we had a place to get to. The instructions felt like they had been written by AI and maybe not play tested or edited for clarity. Most…”
Play an English-language, self-guided mystery through Phoenix’s Roosevelt Row. You’ll follow clues, solve 13 puzzles, and find murals by Hugo Medina, Jesse Perry, Carrie Marill, Isaac Caruso, Tato Caraveo, and others. There is no live guide, so you set the pace and can pause along the way.
“It didn’t worth the money. There were some lighting but nothing very specific or memorable. I really expected better experience.”
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