After nearly 12 years as a browser-based game, GeoGuessr is set to launch on Steam next month.

I’m absolutely naff when it comes to geography, whether it be the version in school which is actually more about rocks and rivers than places, or said places themselves and where they are. I just don’t know where things are! And that’s fine. Even still, like many others I partook in a good few games of GeoGuessr during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and found it to be good fun, particularly with some friends. And now, five years on since that whole thing happened, the geography guessing game is coming to Steam.

GeoGuessr Steam Edition, as it’s appropriately called, is actually apparently going to be an early access title. The explanation for this given on the game’s Steam page is the usual kind of thing, refining gameplay, adding features, getting direct feedback. It also notes that the dev’s goal is to create the “ultimate competitive and casual geography game”, which is a funny goal to have in mind given that it is generally the first game you immediately think of within that incredibly niche genre.

There’s no exact release date just yet but the Steam page says that it’s actually coming next month, which is literally a week away, so you’ve not got long to wait. The thing that isn’t particularly clear right now is how it will be priced. Right now the web version of the game, which has been around for 12 years I might add, requires a subscription to play more than three rounds a day, something that wasn’t all that well received when the change was announced last year.

The game’s Steam page does note that the price won’t change during its early access period, and is unlikely to change afterwards, so this version might be a one-off payment. Fingers crossed! Bloody sick of subscription fees.