How to Play MapRaiders
MapRaiders is a GPS-based territory game where you walk or run to claim real-world land, create content, defend your territory, and form clans. This complete guide covers all core mechanics.
Back to MapRaidersWhat is MapRaiders and how do I begin?
MapRaiders transforms the real world into a strategic territory game. You use your phone's GPS to move through your city or neighborhood, or play from home with your 3D character. Every closed loop claims territory, your land stays yours until another player takes it, and you team up with other players in clans and raids.
Getting started is simple: open MapRaiders in your browser, create an account, take your first walk outside, and tap to claim your first territory. The more you move, the more you can claim.
What are the main game systems?
MapRaiders is built on five interconnected systems that combine into a living world:
Territories
Walk to unclaimed land and claim it as your own. Your territories appear as colored hexagons on the map. The more you walk, the more you can own.
Learn territories →Raids
Monsters come to the spawn points, and players fight them together as a team, talking in the voice lobby. Boss fights run in acts and drop loot.
Learn raids →Holding Territory
An attack takes only what it walks around, and your territory stays yours until another player takes it.
Read the rules →Clans
Team up with other players to control larger regions. Clans form organically and can cooperate to protect territory and compete in clan challenges.
Learn clans →Quests & Challenges
Create tasks for other players to solve at specific locations. Complete quests to earn XP and currency. Clan challenges test your skills.
How does the territory system work?
Territory is the foundation of MapRaiders. Every land tile on the map belongs to someone or is waiting to be claimed. Claimed territories show their owner's color. Your territory stays yours, even when you are not out for a while. You can only lose it to another player who takes it from you. An attack takes only what it walks around, and your territory stays yours until another player takes it.
Clan territories are shared and defended collectively by the group.
What are raids and how do I join one?
In a raid, a monster comes to a spawn point on the real map, and players fight it together in real-time action combat. Boss fights run in acts with warning zones on the ground, and defeating the monster drops loot.
Bring your clan's voice lobby along and help fallen teammates back up. Skills from the Raider tree and your character from the workshop go with you into every raid.
Can I lose my territory?
Only to another player who takes it from you. It does not disappear because you were not out for a while.
An attack takes only what it walks around, and your territory stays yours until another player takes it.
How do clans work and how do I join one?
Clans form organically when players team up to control territory and collaborate on goals. Unlike rigid guilds, MapRaiders clans grow naturally from shared territorial interests. You can start your own clan or be invited to join an existing one. Clan members cooperate to defend larger regions and compete against rival clans in organized challenges.
Clan territories are defended collectively, and members share in the defense and XP rewards. Clans also access clan-only challenges and leaderboards, creating internal competition and cooperation.
How do I create quests and earn rewards?
Quests are tasks you create for other players to discover and complete at specific locations. You set the location, define the challenge (a puzzle, trivia, or task), and set a reward in XP or in-game currency. When a player completes your quest, you both earn rewards and the quest gets credit toward your creator stats.
Challenges work similarly but operate at the clan level, clans create challenges to test members and earn clan-wide rewards. Both systems let you shape gameplay and reward other players for engaging with your content.
Common questions about MapRaiders
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.
Ready to claim your territory?
Sign up for the beta and start your journey today. Walk, claim, defend, and cooperate.
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