Explore the unknown.
Your steps. Your map. Your adventure.The walking game where your real steps uncover an unknown continent.
Terra Incognita turns your real steps into an expedition across an uncharted continent. Draw your route, walk it, and every step reveals the map, gathers resources, and builds your camp.
A look at the game
Plan a route, walk it, and turn what you find into a camp that keeps growing.
Draw your route across the map, tile by tile.
Every area you reveal hands out resources.
Your camp, your daily goals, your logbook.
A continent nobody else will ever see.
What awaits you
Explore an unknown world
Your real steps reveal a continent that appears on no map. Every player discovers a different world. Your map is yours alone.
Gather resources
Every revealed area gives you resources: wood, stone, food, and rare samples. No step is wasted.
Build your base camp
Invest your resources in buildings. Upgrade your sawmill, research new technologies, and unlock new landscapes on the map.
Set up outposts
Build a depot on ground you have revealed. It gathers resources while you are away, and you collect it by walking a route back over it.
New goals every day
Three daily challenges, from walking steps to finding a secret. Complete all three and your streak grows, with rewards at every milestone.
Discover secrets
Landmarks, hidden secrets, and ancient ruins are waiting to be found. The surprise comes when you reveal them.
Fill your research journal
Every find gets a name and a page in your catalog. Each landscape is a chapter of species to complete, and the mystery of this continent lives in what you document.
Earn your Expedition Rank
Back home, a scientific society keeps a ledger on you. Every find and every camp earns medals across four explorer roles, and lifts a single rank from lowly Ship's Boy to Honorary Fellow of the Society. Recognition you walk your way to, never buy.
How it works
Open the map
You are standing somewhere out there. Look at the mist and spot the landscapes at the edge of your world.
Draw your route
Tap out your way tile by tile: straight through the mist, or the cheap way around over ground you know. You see the cost in steps before you commit.
Get outside
Your real steps count. Walk, hike, or run. Every step counts for your route, your building, and your outpost at the same time.
Reveal & collect
Once you have walked it, everything on your route is revealed and hands out resources. You end up where the route ended, ready for the next one.
A world full of secrets
A continent that shouldn't exist. Plants grow in geometric patterns, animals behave unnaturally calm, and everywhere you find ruins of a vanished civilization. Your mission: map, document, understand.
8 unique landscapes
From dense jungle to volcanic terrain to overgrown ruins: each landscape has its own atmosphere and resources. Three are free from the start, and you unlock all eight in the full version.
Rare landmarks
Named places like the "Shattered Obelisk" or the "Echo Grotto", each with a large resource find.
Hidden secrets
Roughly one area in seven holds a secret. Invisible in the mist. The surprise comes when you reveal it.
Infinite map
No edges, no boundaries. As long as you walk, there's always more to discover.
Watch your camp grow
Every upgrade shows. Your headquarters starts as a patched tent and visibly grows with every walk. Where it ends up is yours to discover.
A patched tent
Where everyone starts. A fire, a pot, and big plans.
A wooden cabin
A few upgrades in, the walls go up and it starts to feel like home.
And then?
Keep walking. What it becomes is yours to find out.
Your base camp
Classic browser game feeling: clear buildings, straightforward upgrades, strategic decisions. Every building has a real effect on your explorations, and one walk pushes your route, your upgrade, and your outpost forward at the same time.
Camp
Sawmill, quarry, kitchen, and storehouse: improve your resource finds and storage capacity.
Research
Navigation station and laboratory: unlock new landscapes and improve your chances of rare finds.
Fair & Transparent
No pay-to-win. No subscription. A game that unfolds through movement, not through payment.
Free: Forever
- ✓3 landscapes: jungle, mountains, plains
- ✓All base resources: wood, stone, food
- ✓The full camp: every building, every upgrade
- ✓Outposts without limits
- ✓Daily challenges, streaks, and the logbook
- ✓Achievements and your Expedition Rank
- ✓No step limit and no range limit
- ✓5 new landscapes: coast, forest, swamp, volcanic, ruins
- ✓Navigation station: research new territories
- ✓Laboratory: better chances for rare finds
- ✓All 8 landscapes reachable
- ✓Deeper progression and more variety
Movement is never blocked. The full version means more variety, not better mechanics.
Questions before you start
- Do I need GPS, and do I have to stare at my phone while walking?
- No to both. Terra Incognita counts steps, not locations, so your phone stays in your pocket. Nothing is recorded about where you go, only how many steps you took. Plan a route in the app, go outside, and open it again later.
- Do my steps still count when the app is closed?
- Yes. Your phone keeps counting on its own, and when you open the app every step since the start of your expedition is added. Nothing is lost. On iPhone the app also imports steps in the background and can notify you when something finishes. If you swipe the app away, or while your phone is locked, iOS holds that background update back until you unlock and open it again. Your steps are still safe either way.
- Is there an Android version?
- Android is currently in a closed beta that you can join from this page. It reads steps through Health Connect, which is a hub rather than a step source of its own. If it shows zero steps, connect a source like Google Fit or Samsung Health to Health Connect and allow Terra Incognita to read steps.
- What does it cost, and is there a subscription?
- The game is free and there is no subscription and no advertising. Free players get three landscapes, the whole camp, outposts without limits, daily challenges, and no limit on how far they walk. The full version is a single purchase for 6.99 euro and adds five more landscapes plus the research buildings. Nothing about it is pay-to-win, walking is never blocked.
- Does everyone play the same map?
- No. Every player gets a different continent, with its own landscapes, landmarks and secrets. Your map is yours alone, and it has no edge: as long as you keep walking, there is more of it.
- How much time does it take per day?
- Opening the app once or twice a day is enough. Steps count for your expedition, your building upgrade, and your outpost at the same time, so there is nothing to assign and nothing to micromanage. A building upgrade runs over days, so missing one is not a setback.
Ready for the expedition?
Terra Incognita is available now for iOS. The Android version is in closed beta. The continent is waiting.