Turn Your Walks Into Games

What is a Walking Game?

Any game you play while walking: a scavenger hunt on your street, a word game with a friend, or an app that turns your steps into rankings, quests and races.

The best walking games need no equipment at all. Play I Spy or twenty questions with whoever is next to you. Pick a colour before you leave and hunt for ten things that match it. Flip a coin at every junction, heads left and tails right, and see where your neighbourhood takes you. Build a story one sentence per person, one block per turn. Keep a scavenger list of small things, a red door, a dog in a coat, a street musician, and race to spot them first.

What a phone adds is a running score. Your steps get counted automatically, so every walk you take feeds a bigger game that is still going when you get home. That is the part a pen-and-paper game cannot do, and it is where Walk With Me comes in.

In Walk With Me, your steps enter live rankings: a World board you can climb daily or monthly, plus Friends, Countries and Packs views. You can send cheers to walkers on the World board, and every day's steps are capped before they count, which keeps the board about consistency rather than one heroic day.

Rex, the in-app coach, hands you daily and weekly quests scaled to your step goal. Finishing one earns XP, and XP builds your level, so a good week is something you can watch rise rather than just a streak you are afraid to break.

Pair up with a walking buddy and you can run a friendly step race, sprint or laps, up to four weeks long. You keep a joint streak, trade a once-a-day wave, and can even wager XP on keeping the streak alive. It is the closest thing walking has to a standing game night.

Walk Packs make it a team sport: a small group of up to five with a shared weekly step-goal bar and its own chat. When the pack hits its weekly goal, everyone's steps for the week convert to Social Steps and the whole pack earns bonus XP, so the game rewards showing up for each other.