WhichWay.is

WhichWay.is, from Eyospace (listed under Adrien Jean on the App Store), tests something most map games skip: knowing which way a place is. Each round highlights your current country on a 3D globe and names a target country. You drag a beam from where you are in the direction you think the target lies and submit, and the target becomes your starting point for the next round.

Scoring rewards accuracy. A perfect aim earns 100 coins, a very near one 50, a broadly right direction 10, and a miss nothing. A game is ten rounds, and the Daily Challenge gives everyone the same ten, so scores can be compared on the global leaderboard and with friends. A calendar lets you replay past days.

Outside the daily, Endless mode keeps going until your lives run out and adds twists such as a clock, a locked zoom, no borders or clouds over the map. The game runs in the browser and as apps for iPhone and Android, in ten languages: English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Hindi, Arabic, Portuguese, Russian, Japanese and German.

It suits geography fans who know the shapes on the map but want to test their sense of bearing across the globe.