Bearing

Bearing tests the sense of direction you use when you walk out of a station and have to guess which way to go. Each of the day's five rounds starts with a short journey you only watch. The start flag fades and the trail dissolves behind the walker, so there is nothing to memorise from the screen; you have to keep track of where you are.

The rounds each ask a different question. Home: tap where the walk started. Face: tap the compass ring where home lies. Ride: the journey plays in first person, then you place yourself on a north-up map, which is the hardest round and scored more gently. Span: a ray points home and you mark the straight-line distance along it. Track: at a fork, pick the shorter way home against the clock. After you lock in, the true path draws itself so you can see how close you were.

Every round scores 0 to 100 and the day's result is their average, shared as five coloured squares with a challenge link. The rounds are seeded so everyone gets the same journeys on the same day, with one attempt each, and a practice mode drills any single round across twelve difficulty levels. It is by Yuki Andersen, who also makes Ballast and Well Putt.

When you finish, the results screen shows how many players have run the daily in the last 24 hours, the best score among them and where yours ranks. These rivals are anonymous counts. Every finished round also adds to an XP rank kept in your browser, and the practice picker shows your average and level for each of the five skills.