GPS Strategy · Trading Cards MapRaiders

Explore outside. Fight in the arena.

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Conquer territory near you on the real world map: outside on foot or by bike. Or set out from home with your RPG character and conquer contested territory. Collect cards, build your deck and face other players in card duels, for territory and for coins that buy card packs.

How the game works

Live in the browser. Something new arrives every week.

Two ways into the game

You decide where your evening begins.

The game opens with the same question as this page: onto the map or to the card table. Both belong to one world, and each works on its own.

World map of the MapRaiders mobile game in parchment style with streets and buildings

Outside

MAP

Explore the world, claim territory. Your route draws the border, your city becomes your hunting ground.

More about the world map

Duel in the MapRaiders trading card game in the browser: two commanders, cards on both sides of the battlefield

At home

TCG

Play cards, build decks. A commander leads your deck, and the duel runs at the table, on the sofa, on the train.

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With every releaseNew commanders, new placesEvery season brings new commanders and opens spawn points at real places that belong to their story. Your figure starts there and explores the real streets. What a season brings does not come back in later releases.Spawn points and releases

What a GPS trading card game is

World map: claim real territory with GPS

City map around the Rotes Rathaus in Berlin in MapRaiders style: a walked lap becomes claimed territory — Map © OpenStreetMap contributors

Card back of a playing card in the MapRaiders TCG — Map © OpenStreetMap contributors

World map

Your route draws a border.

A real lap around the Rotes Rathaus in Berlin: 654 meters, just under eight minutes. Walk, run, cycle: movement is your move.

If you cannot get out, your RPG character sets out from a spawn point. More on that below.

Territory

Close the lap and the area is yours.

Real streets, real buildings, one shared map for everyone. This lap secures 18,600 square meters.

Already in the gameNew land earns you coins, and coins buy card packs.

Attack

An attack only takes what it walks around.

A rival lap cuts its piece out of your territory. The rest stays yours, and you can take it back.

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Virtual role-playing: conquer land with your RPG character

Your character starts at a spawn point, a fixed place on the real world map, and moves through the real streets from there. You explore cities you have never been to and conquer contested territory, even from your sofa. Your character’s laps become territory too. Spawn points, quests and cards change with every card release.

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All spawn points and starting places

The world map in detail

The Collision

Where you walk, the seam between the worlds tears open.

Every closed lap opens a rift. Dimensions of this Earth collide: legends, machines, angels and demons suddenly stand in real places.

Each season is a chapter of this story, with new commanders, quests and spawn points. What a season brings never returns, and what you earned stays valid.

Spawn points and releases

The MapRaiders trading card game (TCG)

Trading card game

Your commander. Your deck. Your home game.

Collect cards, put your deck together and discover the world behind every character. Each commander brings their own battlefield.

Fifty cards, one commander, one clear plan.
Gold and prism prints: different light, the same rules.
Practice against the bot, prove yourself against people.

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Card back of the playing cards in the MapRaiders TCG

Card back of the commander cards in the MapRaiders TCG

Foil card: scroll or move the pointer

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Your collection

Four ways to get cards.

Your trading card collection grows outside and at the table. All four ways are already live in the game.

On the mapFind cards at real places, and earn coins for new territory to buy card packs.
In the arenaProve yourself in card duels against other players and earn coins for card packs.
Season passEvery season brings a season pass. Season XP from finds, laps, territory, daily tasks and weekly missions fills it, and it pays out cards, packs and, at its end, a commander.
Deck building challengesHand in spare copies and receive a reward card.

Already in the gameAll four ways in detail Your trading card collection

TCG Arena

Deck against deck. Card against card.

In the arena you play your cards against others. Before the duel, rock paper scissors decides who gets to choose home or away.

Already in the gameThe map decides where conflicts arise; the card duel decides who makes use of them. If the owner is online, a live card duel decides who keeps the ground.

Home

You go first.

Both of you play on your commander’s battlefield.

Away

Your opponent goes first.

You play on their commander’s battlefield.

SearchFind cards in your collection.
BuildFifty cards around one commander.
CheckThe deck tells you whether it is playable.
PlayFirst against the bot, then against people.

Already in the gameHow a duel works

Six factions

Not every power plays by the same rules.

Every card belongs to a faction, and every faction has its color and its way of fighting.

I · Red

Human

Empires, armies and order. What people have built, they also defend.

II · Blue

Technology

Steel, machines and cold precision. Progress does not ask for permission.

III · Green

Nature

Forest, root and pack. What grows takes back what belongs to it.

IV · Yellow

Heaven

Light, vigil and judgment. Heaven protects, and it forgets nothing.

V · Black

Hell

Fire, pact and price. Every power can be had, and each has its price.

VI · Purple

Cosmos

Stars, orbits and the silence in between.

More about the factions

Live in the browser

Something new arrives every week.

Spawn points, quests and cards change with every season. What you earned stays valid.

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Questions

What players ask first

Can I play MapRaiders from home?: Yes. Your own 3D character starts at spawn points in real cities, explores the real streets, takes on quests, fights monsters in raids and claims territory. Land walked with GPS can only be taken by another GPS loop.
Does it cost anything?: Playing costs nothing and there is nothing to buy. Coins are earned by playing and spent in the shop and on the season path. Strength is not sold.
Do I lose cards when I lose a duel?: No. A lost duel never removes cards from your collection, and cards you earned stay valid and playable in later seasons.
Can I play as the characters from the quests?: Yes. Quest characters can be unlocked as skins. Put one on your RPG character and fight monsters together with other players.
Do I need an app?: No. MapRaiders runs in the browser on phone and PC, and you can install it from the browser as an app, no store needed.
Is MapRaiders a Pokémon GO alternative?: Yes, with its own focus: territory that stays yours, play from home, raids at spawn points, a trading card game and a story told in seasons. It has no connection to Pokémon, Nintendo, Niantic or Scopely.

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Everything there is to know about MapRaiders.

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