Games

For mapping shops selling games of various types, see Tag:shop=games.

Several games have already been built using OpenStreetMap data, enabling the creation of games set in the real world.

Related topics are Simulators (more serious use of OSM in interactive worlds) and Gamification (making OSM mapping feel more like playing a game by applying game design techniques).

Games using OpenStreetMap data

In the game itself

• 112 Operator successor of 911 Operator, now with 3D Models
• 911 Operator (Kickstarter Page, on Steam) - released in 2017
• A/B Street
• Back Of Your Hand, a game to test your local knowledge by asking you to identify five streets in an area of your choice.
• Badge(r)s The friendly game about collecting badges and regions. Using osmdroid and Nominatim.
• City Bus Manager - Manage a bus depot and bus routes
• Combat Air Patrol 2: Military Flight Simulator - released in 2016
• Delivery INC - Operate a delivery company, picking up passengers, packages and food and delivering them as fast as possible.
• Draconius Go ("3D")
• EKIMEMO
• FlightGear - Makes up most world 3D scenery using osm2city.pyMore data such as roads since version 3.0.
• freewebcar_chung - A free 3D openstreetmap car / foot / flight sim game
• Gbanga - mixed reality social gaming
• Generation Streets (3D)
• GeoFS - Uses Cesium JS to create 3D buildings, with data taken from OSM
• Global Farmer - Uses streets and farming areas for a farming simulation.
• Globat Pixels - a pixelated open-world game
• GoCity
• Infection Free Zone - Survival/city builder: choose a place in the world to defend from zombies using footprints and semantic tags from OSM.
• Ingress ("3D")
• Leitstellenspiel (browser based game, also available in English language via http://www.missionchief.com )
• Logistical: Earth - strategy puzzle game where you transport different cargoes to complete all the towns throughout the planet
• LstSim is a browser based simulation game in German language. See also: Simulators
• Microsoft Flight Simulator - Uses an export of OSM data through Blackshark.ai (famous typo with building heights[1])
• Mapsnake
• Minetest Classroom is a "free and open source, educational, voxel-based sandbox video game that supports the ability to create digital twins from geospatial data, including OSM data". There was a workshop during SotM2024.
• Monster Hunter Now(3D)
• NIMBY Rails - A railway management sandbox where you build transport infrastructure in the real world (ie. over OpenStreetMap data).
• Orna ("3D")
• OSM 15 Puzzle. This is the classic 15 puzzle game using standard OpenStreetMap tiles. Related OSM diary entry. Made by Eugene Alvin Villar - Source code.
• Pikmin Bloom - Screenshot showing attribution
• Pokémon Go (simple 3D)
• Resources
• Scrambled maps
• State Of The Map 2012 site has a mini game
• Subwaydle
• WMS Racer - A game as a JOSM plugin!
• X-Plane (3D scenarios)
• Zombie Tower Defense - A tower defense game played on maps of anywhere in the world!

Games that can no longer be played or installed:

• Blackout Age F2P, geo-localized survival game about fighting aliens and solving the mystery of their invasion
• BucketMan - coloring your city (Android) - A game similar to PacMan but in the streets of your hometown!
• Five Nights at Freddie's AR: Special Delivery
• geodart
• GPS Mission
• Harry Potter: Wizards Unite ("3D")
• LearnYouACity - teach yourself where streets in your city are
• Map of the Dead (iPhone) - Previously used OSM, then used Google Maps and shut down due to API pricing.
• Master City (Android)
• Minecraft Earth (3D)
• Monopoly City Streets
• Next Land (3D) (on Indiegogo funding page (& video))
• Nike Grid
• World of the living dead - Resurrection (screenshot with some OSM) - browser based zombie game (now shut down)
• Train Lord
• TrezzureHunt (iOS)
• ZZoner
• 911 Emergency Manager - released in 2020, now can't be purchased on Steam.
• Parkineers^{Archive.org link} Page mentions OSM data being used. Game developed for Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany.
• Mehr Platz für dich^{Archive.org link} Page mentions OSM data being used. Screenshot of sample map.
• Gbanga Famiglia^{Archive.org link} MMO app game. Page mentions OSM data being used.
• Postman^{Archive.org link} Android and iOS app showing access points of Swiss Post and providing missions. Page mentions OSM data being used. Screenshot of sample map.

For services around the games

• Badge(r)s Using Nominatim reverse lookup to divide the world into playing areas.
• Battlefield 4 use custom maps via MapBox - "leaderboards allow players to compete within their geographic regions. The maps are tailored to the look and feel of the game"

Game map converters

• Cities:Skylines - OSM import (3D)
• Minecraft - At least one person has generated blocky 3D minecraft maps from OSM data (3D)
• SuperTuxKart - Map importing based on osm2world (3D)
• The Golf Club 2019 - Allows you to create your own golf course and play it in the video game. Using the mapped data from OpenStreetMap greatly improves the accuracy of the course re-creations. These course re-creations can then be used in golf simulators. Some editors mistag to get the look they want in the game (see descriptive page), this is highly discouraged; it isn't necessary to upload this data to the main map when it can just be downloaded from iD as a .osm instead of uploading it, and added to the game manually. (3D)

Board games

• WikiProject Catalan/OpenStreetMap The Boardgame - a board game version of OpenStreetMap! (under development)
• Les plus grande cathedrales de France board game - Memory game using cathedral building footprints data. Was a featured image
• Scotland Yard - digital version of the board game Scotland Yard using OpenStreetMap data to build up individual game plans.

Personal goal tracking

These services compare GPS traces you've collected via a service like Strava to the street network in OpenStreetMap so you can track and share how much of a city you've visited. These services depend on OSM to have accurate highway classification and boundaries.

• CityStrides – run every street in a city
• Every Street Challenge – plan a route for every street in a city
• StreetFerret – run every street in a city
• Wandrer – bike every street in a city

Games referencing OpenStreetMap

•  Life Is Strange: Shows a laptop with openstreetmap.org open. The geographical features appear to be fictitious but inspired by the upper West Coast of the USA. Screenshot

Game development tools

OSM-based game development tools by game engine:

• Unity
• Unreal Engine

Retro gaming-styled maps

Not actual game data converters, but styles inspired by games:

• 8bitcity.com - Zelda style
• Warcraft II style - Demo of Cartagen. Read more on the original 2009 blog.

Ideas

• GSoC Project Ideas 2011#OSM 4 games a modularized exporter for different game genres
• OSM Worms: Worms crawling along the roads and eating cars. They grow longer and longer. They are slower on smaller roads.
• OSM Packman: Fight the ghosts in your own neighborhoods roads and ways Blog
• ZombieMap
• OSMgo a Pokemon-clone (mutated to a 3D viewer)

See also

• OpenGeofiction - OSM clone to map fictional countries in a fantasy world. It is not based on OSM data, but it uses the same server software and API and you can use any OSM editor to play.