GPS Games

PokemonGo(left: 3d virtual space; right: augmented rality)

Ingress and PokemonGo are GPS-based, augmented-reality games available on Android and iOS developed by Niantic where the latter can be considered a more advanced and more popular version of the former. The two games allow players to progress through the game via interaction between the real world and the virtual world. GPS-based games add some flavor to the process of playing because the virtual space is directly linked to real world through the locations which match in both worlds. When you move in the real world, you also move in the virtual world, though it's not possible to do that in reverse (^_^).

Ingress. In-game map.

I've played Ingress before. While there seems to be a variety of things to do like finding and hacking portals as well as spreading your faction's influence, the spectrum of actions playes can perform is very limited making the game being interesting in a short-term and boring in a long term. The only reason the game was interesting to me was because of the game's unique flavor of the two spaces, virtual and real, being related to each other.