Six free GTA GeoGuessr games are live in September 2026, and four of them get you into a round in seconds. The other two are both for San Andreas, and each has a catch: one redirected our browser tab before we could guess, and the other needs your own copy of the game.
GTA GeoGuessr is the fan-made genre that swaps Google Street View for a Grand Theft Auto map. You get a screenshot, a 360° view or a 3D scene from inside the game, and you drop a pin where you think it was taken. The audience is enormous. Take-Two reported in August 2026 that Grand Theft Auto V has sold in more than 230 million units. Plenty of those players know Los Santos better than their own city.
So on 13 and 14 September 2026 we tried every GTA guesser we could find, in a desktop browser and at phone width, and compared what each one actually offers.
Key Takeaways
- GTAGuessr is the most complete. Seven modes, GTA V plus GTA Online’s Cayo Perico, the only Liberty City map we found, and private lobbies with nothing more than a nickname.
- Lostgamer plays most like real GeoGuessr. 360° ground views across more than 67,000 GTA V locations, Move, No Move and NMPZ settings, no account for solo play, and the best phone layout we tested.
- Scoring varies wildly. A guess more than a kilometre off scored zero in three of the four games we finished a round on. In Lostgamer, a 1.68 km miss still earned 1,043 points.
- San Andreas has three guessers, but two come with catches. GTA:SA Guesser moved to a new address and sent our tab to YouTube on both visits, and GTA SA GeoGuessr needs your own game files. Lostgamer is the easy pick.
- There is no GTA 6 GeoGuessr yet. GTAGuessr already lists Grand Theft Auto VI in its menu, greyed out. The game launches on 19 November 2026.
- Want to guess real streets instead? Play Where Am I? free on iOS, Android and the web.
GTA GeoGuessr games compared
Checked on 13 and 14 September 2026. “Before you play” means what a site asks for before your first round.
| # | Game | GTA maps | Each round shows | Before you play | Multiplayer | On a phone | Ads |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | GTAGuessr | GTA V (Los Santos, Blaine County), GTA Online’s Cayo Perico, GTA IV (Liberty City) | A picture with the protagonist in shot | Nickname or Twitch login | Private lobbies with a nickname; custom and public lobbies need Twitch | Site adapts; rounds not tested at phone width | Yes |
| 2 | Lostgamer | GTA V, GTA San Andreas | A 360° ground view you can move through | Nothing for solo play | Advertised, but the button was disabled while logged out | Built for it | Yes |
| 3 | GTA GeoGuesser | GTA V | A 360° panorama, movement optional | Nothing | Toggle on the setup screen (not tested) | Playable; the map covers one button | Yes |
| 4 | Vice City Guesser | The original GTA Vice City | A screenshot from the original game | A name | No, leaderboard only | Site adapts; rounds not tested at phone width | None found |
| 5 | GTA:SA Guesser | The original GTA San Andreas (whole map, Los Santos, San Fierro, Las Venturas) | A photo from the game; Panorama mode too | Nothing to open a game; accounts optional | None found; leaderboards and events | Not tested | Yes; our tab was redirected to YouTube twice |
| 6 | GTA SA GeoGuessr | The original GTA San Andreas | A 3D scene built from your own game files | Your GTA San Andreas game folder | None found | Not tested | None found |
What the table actually shows
Three formats that test different skills. GTAGuessr, Vice City Guesser and GTA:SA Guesser show a single still picture, so you match one frame against your memory of the map. Lostgamer and GTA GeoGuesser put you inside a 360° view you can look around and, by default, walk through. That plays much more like GeoGuessr, where you hunt for a road sign or a landmark before committing. GTA SA GeoGuessr goes further and rebuilds each spot in 3D from your own copy of the game.
Nobody makes you create an account to start. Three games ask for nothing, two ask only for a name, and one asks for your game folder. Logins only matter for extras, such as custom or public lobbies and saved Hot Streak scores on GTAGuessr, which need Twitch.
Multiplayer is thinner than the menus suggest. GTAGuessr was the only site that offered us a lobby with just a nickname. Lostgamer promotes playing with friends, but its Multiplayer button was disabled for us as a logged-out visitor, so we could not try it without signing up.
Ads are the norm. GTAGuessr, Lostgamer, GTA GeoGuesser and GTA:SA Guesser all load advertising. Vice City Guesser and GTA SA GeoGuessr were the only ones with no ad scripts on the page.
How we tested these GTA guessers
On 13 September 2026 we played one round on each of the first four games in a desktop Chromium browser, then reloaded the same pages at an emulated 375 x 812 phone viewport. On 14 September we added the two San Andreas guessers and re-checked GTAGuessr’s Liberty City screen. For every site we recorded:
- what it asks for before the first round (we used a throwaway nickname where one was required and created no accounts)
- the maps, modes and settings on its setup screens
- how far off our first guess was, and what it scored
- whether multiplayer could be started without logging in
- whether the page loads advertising scripts
We also read the code behind the two San Andreas games: the scripts GTA:SA Guesser’s game page loads, and GTA SA GeoGuessr’s own game scripts, which show how it scores and whether it uploads your files. GTA:SA Guesser’s old addresses, which still appear in search results, were checked with Cloudflare’s and Google’s public DNS. Vice City Guesser’s location count comes from the game’s own location file.
Limits worth knowing. One round per game is a snapshot, not a benchmark. We did not play GTAGuessr’s or Vice City Guesser’s rounds at phone width, and because we never logged in, account-only features such as Lostgamer’s multiplayer are untested. We never finished a round of GTA:SA Guesser because of its redirect, and we did not play GTA SA GeoGuessr, which needs game files we did not load.
The GTA GeoGuessr games that play instantly
1. GTAGuessr
GTAGuessr has the most modes on this list, and it is the only one with a GTA IV map. The site credits DarkViperAU, the GTA YouTuber, and points players who want to help with running costs towards his YouTube channel membership.
Each GTA V round is a picture with the protagonist in shot. Ours was a Franklin selfie on a downtown street, and you place your pin on a Satellite, Atlas or Radar version of the map. In Classic mode you get five pictures. A pin within 10 metres earns the full 500 points. The score then falls to zero at 510 metres in GTA V, and at just 250 metres in Liberty City. Our downtown guess was 1,111 metres off: right district, zero points.
The mode list is what sets it apart. GTA V has seven:
- Classic: five pictures, scored by distance.
- Speedrun: full points only if you lock in during a short grace period, after which your potential score drains.
- Survival: everyone starts with health that drains according to how far off each guess is, scored as Knockout or Endurance.
- Trilocator: three reference pictures and their exact distances to a hidden spot, which you find by trilateration.
- One vs Many: built for streamers, whose timer starts only after the audience has locked in its guesses.
- Hot Streak: you pick map tiles instead of dropping pins, and the grid gets finer as your streak grows.
- PopZone: you get the name of a district and must find its boundaries on the map.
Liberty City has the same set minus PopZone.
To play, you enter a nickname or log in with Twitch. With just a nickname, the game offered us a private lobby with an auto-generated name and an optional password. A Twitch login lets you rename lobbies, choose their access level, and keep Hot Streak scores on the leaderboard. Grand Theft Auto VI already sits in the side menu, greyed out. The site carries Google ads.
Key features
- GTA V, GTA Online’s Cayo Perico and GTA IV’s Liberty City
- Seven modes, including Trilocator and a streamer mode
- Private lobbies with just a nickname; Twitch unlocks custom and public ones
- Strict scoring: zero beyond 510 m in GTA V and 250 m in GTA IV
Best for: playing with friends or a Twitch chat, and anyone who still knows Liberty City by heart.
Want to see Survival Knockout before you try it? DarkViperAU plays that mode in this GTAGuessr Versus episode:
2. Lostgamer
Lostgamer is a guessing site for a dozen game worlds, from Fortnite to Elden Ring, and its GTA V map is enormous. It listed 67.43k locations and more than 19 million rounds played when we checked. The San Andreas map had 6,002 locations and more than 4.5 million rounds.
Every round drops you into a 360° ground view you can walk through, which makes it the closest thing to real GeoGuessr on this list. The settings also go further than any rival here. You can play 5 to 40 rounds and set a time limit from 5 seconds to 10 minutes, or leave it unlimited. You can also switch between Move, No Move and NMPZ, the no move, no pan, no zoom restriction GeoGuessr players will recognise.
Scoring is far more forgiving than GTAGuessr’s. Our first guess landed 1.68 km away and still earned 1,043 of a possible 5,000 points. Solo play needs no account, and each game also has a daily challenge.
Lostgamer promotes multiplayer for groups of friends, but the Multiplayer button was disabled while we were logged out, so we could not test it without signing up. The site shows display ads and asks for cookie consent on arrival.
On a phone it had the best layout we tested. The panorama fills the screen, and the guessing map sits behind a single button.
Key features
- GTA V (67.43k locations) and GTA San Andreas (6,002 locations)
- 360° ground views with Move, No Move and NMPZ settings
- 5 to 40 rounds, with a timer from 5 seconds to 10 minutes
- No account for solo play, plus a daily challenge per game
Best for: GeoGuessr regulars, and anyone playing on a phone.
3. GTA GeoGuesser
GTA GeoGuesser does one map, GTA V, and asks for nothing: no account, no name, straight to a setup screen. Each round is a 360° panorama from inside the game, with a small map of Los Santos and Blaine County in the corner.
The setup screen is where it earns its place. Pick Easy, Medium, Hard or Custom, and draw locations from the whole map, just the county or just the city. Then switch off movement or camera movement for a GeoGuessr-style no-move challenge. There is an optional timer, 30 seconds per image by default, and a Multiplayer toggle that we did not test.
A game is five rounds scored by distance, and it is strict: our first guess was 1,052 metres off and earned nothing. Expect one glitch. A Google Maps notice saying the map could not load correctly popped up over the corner map, then cleared after a few seconds, and the game carried on normally.
It is playable at phone width, although the corner map covers part of the button that takes you back to the start. The site carries Google ads and asks for support through Patreon and PayPal.
Key features
- GTA V only, with no account or name required
- 360° panoramas with optional no-move and no-camera settings
- Easy, Medium, Hard and Custom difficulty, plus an optional timer
- Location pools for the whole map, the county or the city
Best for: a quick no-move challenge without signing up for anything.
4. Vice City Guesser
Vice City Guesser is the one to play for the original Vice City, and it looks the part. Every round is a screenshot from the original game, HUD and all, beside a road map of the city.
Scoring is tight. You need to land within 5 metres for a perfect 1,000 points, and anything more than 400 metres away scores nothing. A game is five rounds. Our first pin was 2.09 km off, so we can confirm the zero.
The homepage says there are 151 locations, but the game’s own location file listed 161 when we checked, so the number on the page is out of date. The changelog shows updates from May to July 2026, including a fix that stops locations repeating across back-to-back games and a new global leaderboard. Difficulty levels are listed as planned.
You type a name to start, and there is no account. The page loads no ad scripts.
Key features
- The original Vice City, using screenshots from the game itself
- 161 locations in the game’s file, 151 according to the homepage
- A perfect score within 5 m, zero beyond 400 m
- Name only, no ads found, and a global top 10 leaderboard
Best for: Vice City nostalgia while you wait for GTA VI.
Two San Andreas guessers with a catch
Both of these cover the original 2004 San Andreas map, and both are worth knowing about. We could not finish a round on either, for very different reasons.
5. GTA:SA Guesser
GTA:SA Guesser has more to do than any other San Andreas guesser here, but it was also the only site on this list that took us away mid-visit. It has moved from its old gtasaguesser.com addresses to play.gtasaguesser.app, which is why older links to it no longer work.
Classic mode covers the whole map or just Los Santos, San Fierro or Las Venturas. On top of that there are Panorama and Survival modes, community-made task sets, a task creation tool, achievements, a shop and a Premium tier. A Classic game gives you six photos from the game, worth up to 3,000 points in total. The game pages opened for us without logging in, and registering is optional.
The catch came within seconds. Both times we opened the site on 14 September 2026, first the homepage and then a Classic game, our browser tab jumped to an unrelated YouTube music video within about four seconds, before we could place a pin. It may not happen on every visit, but it happened on both of ours. The page loads scripts from two third-party ad networks as well as Google AdSense, and we found no YouTube redirect in the game’s own code.
Updates have also slowed. The newest changelog entry is dated 8 September 2023, and the footer still labels the game 0.2 BETA.
Key features
- The original San Andreas: the whole map, Los Santos, San Fierro or Las Venturas
- Panorama and Survival modes, plus community task sets and a task creation tool
- Six photos and up to 3,000 points per Classic game
- Game pages open without an account
Best for: checking back later. Until the redirect is fixed, Lostgamer’s San Andreas map is the safer choice.
6. GTA SA GeoGuessr (GTA Stuff)
GTA SA GeoGuessr, made by Dryxio and hosted on GTA Stuff, takes the most unusual approach here. Instead of showing screenshots, it rebuilds a random spot in San Andreas in 3D from your own copy of the game. You drop your GTA San Andreas folder onto the page or pick it with your browser’s folder picker, then click and drag to look around before placing your guess on the map.
The game’s code spells out the scoring. A perfect guess earns 5,000 points, and the score falls in a straight line to zero at 3,000 metres, measured in the game’s own units, which the code describes as roughly metres. You choose 3, 5 or 10 rounds.
We did not play a round, because it needs game files we did not load. Its code reads the game’s classic DFF model and TXD texture files, so you need a copy of GTA San Andreas that includes them. Two other things are clear from the page. Its game scripts read your files inside the browser and contain no upload code, although the page does load Vercel’s web analytics. And the folder picker it relies on works in Chrome and Edge but not in Firefox or Safari, according to MDN’s browser compatibility data. We found no ad scripts.
Key features
- A 3D San Andreas scene built from your own game files
- 3, 5 or 10 rounds, worth up to 5,000 points each
- Points fall to zero only at 3,000 m
- No ad scripts, and no upload code in its game scripts
Best for: players who own GTA San Andreas and want a scene they can look around, not a screenshot.
Which GTA maps can you actually play?
Five GTA settings are playable across these four games, and GTA V’s Los Santos is the only one with more than one guesser. Every other setting has exactly one working option.
One naming trap is worth knowing. GTAGuessr labels its GTA V map “San Andreas”, because that is the name of GTA V’s state. It means Los Santos and Blaine County, not the 2004 game. For the original San Andreas, Lostgamer is the easiest option. GTA SA GeoGuessr is the alternative if you own the game, and GTA:SA Guesser is worth revisiting once its redirect is fixed.
How strict is the scoring?
The same miss that earns points in one game scores zero in another, so a high score only means something within the same game. GTAGuessr and Vice City Guesser publish the distance at which you stop scoring. Lostgamer and GTA GeoGuesser do not, so the chart shows the single test guess we made in each. The two San Andreas guessers are left out: GTA SA GeoGuessr’s code puts its zero point at 3,000 metres, but we did not play it, and we never finished a round on GTA:SA Guesser.
One round per game is not a benchmark, but the pattern is clear. If you want to actually learn a GTA map, the strict games force precision, because only a near-exact pin pays. If you want a relaxed night with friends who haven’t memorised Los Santos, Lostgamer’s curve keeps everyone on the scoreboard.
Is there a GTA 6 GeoGuessr?
Not yet. None of the six games has a GTA VI map. GTAGuessr has already added Grand Theft Auto VI to its side menu, but the option is disabled.
Rockstar has scheduled Grand Theft Auto VI for 19 November 2026 on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. It is set in Vice City and the wider state of Leonida. Local Florida station CBS12 describes that Vice City as a Miami-inspired metropolis and Leonida as Rockstar’s fictionalised take on Florida.
Every guesser on this list is built from screenshots, panoramas or game files from a released game, which is why none of them has GTA VI yet. Until one does, Vice City Guesser is the closest thing on offer, with the caveat that it uses the original city rather than the new one.
Los Santos vs. the real Los Angeles
Los Santos is Rockstar’s parody of Los Angeles, and several of the landmarks you pin in these games have real counterparts. Rockstar’s team spent more than a hundred days researching in Los Angeles while building the map.
| In GTA V | In real life |
|---|---|
| Vinewood sign | Hollywood Sign |
| Vinewood | Hollywood |
| Del Perro Pier | Santa Monica Pier |
| Vespucci Beach | Venice Beach and Santa Monica |
If you want to try that jump right now, one WorldGuessr player has built a community map called Los Santos, using real Street View of Los Angeles places tied to GTA locations. It had only seven locations and 146 plays when we checked, so treat it as a curiosity rather than a full game.
Placing a Franklin selfie and placing a real street use the same skill: reading roads, signs, plants and buildings fast. If you want the real-world version, Where Am I? drops you into street walk videos from around the world. It is free on iOS, Android and the web. Our guide on how to get better at GeoGuessr covers the clue-reading habits that carry over from GTA rounds.
How to pick one
You want to play with friends tonight. GTAGuessr, because it offers a private lobby with just a nickname.
You are on a phone. Lostgamer.
You want it to feel like GeoGuessr. Lostgamer or GTA GeoGuesser, both with 360° views and no-move options.
You refuse to type anything. Lostgamer or GTA GeoGuesser.
You own GTA San Andreas. GTA SA GeoGuessr, which rebuilds each spot in 3D from your own game files.
You want a specific GTA city. Liberty City means GTAGuessr, the original San Andreas means Lostgamer, and the original Vice City means Vice City Guesser.
You want the harshest scoring. GTAGuessr’s Liberty City map, where anything beyond 250 metres scores nothing.
Frequently asked questions
Yes. We found six free GTA GeoGuessr games in September 2026. Four play instantly: GTAGuessr, Lostgamer, GTA GeoGuesser and Vice City Guesser. The other two, GTA:SA Guesser and GTA SA GeoGuessr, are for San Andreas and come with catches. Between them they cover GTA V, GTA Online’s Cayo Perico, GTA IV, GTA San Andreas and the original Vice City.
Yes, most easily on GTAGuessr, which offered us a private lobby with just a nickname; custom and public lobbies need a Twitch login. GTA GeoGuesser has a Multiplayer toggle we did not test, and Lostgamer’s Multiplayer button was disabled while we were logged out.
Not yet. None of the six games has a GTA VI map, although GTAGuessr lists Grand Theft Auto VI in its menu, greyed out. The game itself launches on 19 November 2026.
All six are free to play, although GTA SA GeoGuessr needs your own copy of GTA San Andreas. GTAGuessr, Lostgamer, GTA GeoGuesser and GTA:SA Guesser carry ads, while Vice City Guesser and GTA SA GeoGuessr loaded no ad scripts when we checked.
Yes. Lostgamer had the best phone layout we tested, and GTA GeoGuesser is playable at phone width even though its map covers one button. GTAGuessr’s and Vice City Guesser’s sites adapt to small screens, but we only played their rounds on desktop. We did not try the two San Andreas guessers on a phone.
Yes, three. Lostgamer’s San Andreas map, with 6,002 locations, is the easiest place to start. GTA SA GeoGuessr rebuilds each spot in 3D from your own game files. GTA:SA Guesser, now at play.gtasaguesser.app, redirected our tab to YouTube both times we opened it.
Go deeper
If you like guessing locations in game worlds, these go further:
- Fortnite GeoGuessr: 12 Maps and Resources: the same idea for the Fortnite island
- 15 Free GeoGuessr Alternatives in 2026: real-world guessers, tested the same way
- How to Get Better at GeoGuessr: the clues that identify a place in seconds
- The 10 Hardest Countries to Guess in GeoGuessr: where the real world gets as tricky as Blaine County
Disclaimer: Where Am I? is published by the author of this site. It is an independent game and is not affiliated with Rockstar Games, Take-Two Interactive, GeoGuessr or any game listed here. Grand Theft Auto and GTA are trademarks of Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc. Game details reflect our own play sessions and checks on 13 and 14 September 2026 and can change without notice.
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