Someone call Trevor Rainbolt, the god of Geoguessr (opens in new tab), because this version of World of Warcraft is making me wonder what it was that made me spend so much time on Blizzard's MMO.

Lostgamer.io has released WoW Geoguessr (opens in new tab). This map-based game covers most of the geography of WoW, including the planet Draenor and the alternate timeline Draenor. According to one of the creators, TheEdenChild (opens in new tab), the team used specialized tools and "approximately 3,000,000 images" to create it. Dragonflight is also expected to cost an additional 1,000,000 images.

The game functions much like Geoguessr in the real world. It displays Google's Street View from a first-person perspective, and the user must mark the location on the map before the timer runs out. If more information is needed, one can move around on the map. Points are awarded depending on how close you get to a particular coordinate.

As a WoW player, you would think that guessing the classic zones would be easiest. But somehow it is still difficult for me. Has the Cave of Time moved? Apparently not, and this mistake cost me my high score and my WoW Geoguessr speedrunner (opens in new tab) career. Nevertheless, the Barrens, an old quest area early in the game, is burned into my brain; I spent a lot of time there as a new player in 2006, and the changes in the Cataclysm expansion were not significant enough to render that memory worthless.

The vast zones of recent expansions are more difficult, but if you know one or two things about how Blizzard designs their environments, you can get pretty close. areas in WoW are obviously not as large as real-world countries, and there are pockets of NPCs and buildings for quests It helps to narrow it down, since there are often NPC pockets and buildings for quests. The hardest guess is when you are dropped in the middle of a forest and there is not even a road nearby to help you pinpoint the exact location.

Lostgamer.io's WoW Geoguessr is not the first. You can also play "Where in Warcraft" and watch TikTok user TheVignox show off his geographical talents. Surely someone will master this new WoW Geoguessr and be able to do what Rainbolt did, using only ground textures.