Do you remember the first time you went on Google Maps and looked for your house? I was just nine-years-old when it launched in the UK and it felt like the coolest thing ever. Then Street View came a few years later and me and my friends would gather around the computer to walk to school or the shops.
Now, the innocent fun of excitedly looking at a map is back, gamified by the likes of Geoguessr, popularised by streamer Rainbolt. It inspired a ton of videogame variants, so you can guess locations in sprawling worlds like Skyrim, Red Dead Redemption 2, GTA 5, and more. But while those are all fun, they’re not exactly full games. Enter Locator: The Search for Abigail Lidari.
Locator is a “Geoguessr-inspired detective game” that sees you looking for a missing archaeologist on an alien planet, so there’s no need to go brushing up on your knowledge of where different kinds of trees and grass grow here on Earth. We just got a full minute of the all-new look of the game at the PC Gaming Show—it’s had a lick of spit and polish since its January 2025 demo.
The core concept is still the same, though. You’re handed a picture snapped from ground level and try to figure out where they were taken. This being a videogame, things get progressively more difficult and engaging. As Christopher Livingston wrote after his time with the demo, “Sometimes you’ll need to read journal entries for clues, puzzle over alien hieroglyphs, and even do a tiny bit of (gulp) math.” You’ll also get to learn more about the planet and Abigail Lidari, the missing archaeologist.
Locator is being developed by Empty Exhibit, which has just brought on Playstack as the publisher. That’s the team that helped bring Balatro to the masses, so you know the people there have an eye for cool games.
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