Launched this week
Walksy
Walk to reveal the map — fog-of-war city exploration game
4 followers
Walk to reveal the map — fog-of-war city exploration game
4 followers
Walksy is a free walking app that gamifies your daily walks. Track steps, distance, and calories while exploring your city map. Compete with friends, discover landmarks, and stay motivated. Free for iOS and Android.
My wife and I built Walksy because, for the longest time, every time we went on walks together, we imagined the world around us like a giant game map.
As we explored new streets, neighborhoods, parks, and random corners of the city, we’d always picture ourselves “unlocking” parts of the map in our minds — almost like seeing a fog-of-war overlay slowly disappear, the way it does in so many games. We’d joke about how we’d just uncovered a new region, opened up a hidden area, or expanded our world just by walking a little farther. It was such a fun idea, and for years it lived purely in our imagination.
Eventually, we realized how amazing it would feel to actually turn that mental picture into something real — to build software that captured what we were already seeing in our heads every day. It took time to figure out how to bring that feeling to life, but once we did, Walksy was born.
We’ve always loved walking — not just for exercise, but as a way to explore, clear our heads, and honestly just feel better. For us, walking became a kind of meditation. After COVID, spending so much time working from home, sitting indoors, and living behind screens really started to affect us. As two people in tech, and lifelong gamers who actually met in an MMO game a long, long time ago, we realized how much simply getting outside, moving, and exploring new streets, parks, and neighborhoods changed our mental health.
Walking helped us through depression, burnout, and some really difficult phases in life. A long walk, a new route, fresh air, trees, or discovering a part of your city you’ve never noticed before — it can genuinely make you feel like a new person.
Because gaming has always been such a huge part of who we are, we wanted something that combined that sense of discovery, progression, and exploration with real life. We were looking for an app with adventure, fog-of-war, exploration, and just enough game-like motivation to make going outside even more exciting — but nothing really existed that fit what we were looking for.
So we decided to build it ourselves.
Walksy is our way of combining movement, exploration, and light gamification to help make getting outside a little more fun. The game elements are there because we genuinely love games — they’re a huge part of our story— but the real goal is simple: help people get out of the house, explore, and maybe feel a little better, too.
It’s still just the two of us building this, and that means everything in Walksy comes from a very personal place. We’ve already translated it many languages, launched our Discord community, and are slowly but excitingly watching it grow with people from around the world who love walking, exploring, and gaming as much as we do.
If Walksy helps even one person the way walking helped us, then it’s worth it.