Claim your city before anyone else. The map is still empty.
MapRaiders is a GPS territory game so new that the map of your city is still blank: every street, park and plaza is unclaimed. The first 100 players in each city earn the permanent Pioneer title, and in your city those 100 slots are very likely still open. The game runs in the browser, and every loop you walk or cycle becomes territory under your name.
Enter the gameWhy an empty map is the best scenario you will ever get
In Pokémon GO and Ingress, the good spots were locked up years ago. The downtown gyms belong to level-50 veterans, the dense portal clusters are farmed by teams that formed back when the games launched, and a new player starts nearly a decade behind. You can grind for months and still never matter on your own map.
MapRaiders flips that. The game is brand new, which means nobody has a head start on you. Your local park, your running loop, your block: all of it is unclaimed right now. The person who knows your neighborhood best is you, and in a territory game that local knowledge is the single biggest advantage there is. You already know the shortcuts, the quiet streets, the loop nobody else bothers to walk.
An empty map isn't a downside to apologize for. It is the one moment in any location game when first place is genuinely still open. That moment ended for Ingress in 2013 and for Pokémon GO in 2016. For MapRaiders, it is happening now.
What the first players in a city actually get
The Pioneer title
Awarded automatically to the first 100 players in each city, then never again. It sits on your profile permanently. Everyone who joins later sees that you were there before the map had names on it.
First pick of territory
Central squares, riverside paths, the big park: whoever walks them first, owns them first. Latecomers fight over what's left or have to take it from you.
Your name on the map
Picture opening the app and the city park reads "held by Nordwind_07" (a made-up example, but that is exactly how ownership shows up). Early players get to be the names everyone else sees when they open the map for the first time.
Clan founder position
Clans form around the players who already hold ground. Start early and you're not joining someone's clan later, you're the one others rally around when your city's scene takes shape.
From install to first territory in one walk
- Install the app. No paid advantage, no required subscription, no ads.
- Walk or cycle a closed loop. Around the block, around the park, whatever route you take anyway. GPS traces your path in real time.
- The area inside the loop is yours. It shows on the map in your color, under your name, for every player in your city to see.
One rule that is core to the game: territory stays yours, until another player takes it from you. It does not disappear because you were not out for a while. For an early adopter that is an advantage: what you claim now stays yours, and the map rewards whoever is actually out walking. Right now that can be you.
"What if nobody else in my city plays yet?"
Fair question, and we won't pretend otherwise: in a brand-new game, your city's map may be quiet at first. Here is what that actually means for you.
You build your turf unchallenged. Every territory you claim, you keep without a fight, as long as you stay active. When other players install the app later, they open the map and find your name already on the best ground. You're the established local; they're the newcomers. That position is impossible to buy later and yours to take now.
And the game doesn't go idle while you wait. The solo loops carry their own weight: build quests on your running routes for future players to find, find cards around your neighborhood, follow quest chains, and grow your stats on every dog walk or commute. By the time someone contests your park, you won't just own it on the map. You'll know every meter of it.
Common questions
What you can do in MapRaiders
MapRaiders joins two worlds. Outside, you claim real streets and squares on the GPS map, on foot, running or by bike. Inside, you collect cards, build a deck around your commander and play in the arena, at home or away. Land you walk is meant to bring you cards.
Claim territoryYour route draws the border. Streets and squares on the real map become your territory. 
Card game and arenaFifty cards around one commander. In the arena you play your deck against others, home or away.
First place is still open
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