About Orbil

A daily geography game built around a spinning globe.

Orbil shows you an unlabeled country on a 3D globe and asks one question: can you name it? No street views, no satellite photos, no tricks — just the shape of a country, where it sits on the Earth, and your own mental map. It's free, it works on any phone or computer, and the whole world map is built in, so rounds are instant.

Orbil was born as a living-room game. The first version was passed around one family's couch on a single phone, and the pass-and-play multiplayer mode still carries that DNA. It grew into a daily game because geography knowledge is one of those things that improves fast with a small, regular habit — five countries a day is enough to quietly rebuild your picture of the world.

The Daily Challenge

Every day there's one shared puzzle: five countries, one from each continent, the same five for every player on Earth. Play it daily to build a streak, and share your score without spoiling the answers. It takes about a minute.

Game modes

Learning shows you the correct answer after every guess, quietly re-queues the countries you miss until they stick, and ends with a report of your accuracy by region — so you know whether it's the Caribbean or Central Asia that needs work.

Name them all is the marathon: every country in your chosen pool, one at a time. Right answers turn green, wrong ones red, but the names stay hidden until the end — the final map tells the story of your run.

Best of is a quick fixed-length round — ten or twenty countries with the answer revealed each time. Good for a coffee break.

Time attack gives you one, two, or five minutes to name as many countries as you can. Skipping costs time, not points.

Multiplayer is head-to-head on one device: both players guess the same country each round, guesses lock in secretly, then the reveal settles it. Best played with someone whose geography confidence exceeds their geography knowledge.

Every country in the game

Orbil covers all 195 UN member and observer states. Want the full list? See the reference table of every country — flags, capitals, UN status, and Wikipedia links for all of them. Handy for studying between rounds.

Difficulty and regions

Easy sticks to large, well-known countries; Medium widens the pool; Hard is all ~193 UN member states, including every microstate and island nation you've been avoiding. You can also focus on a single region — Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe, or Oceania — which is the fastest way to turn a weak region into a strong one.

Tips from heavy testing

Use the globe itself: drag to spin, pinch to zoom. Neighbours are the biggest clue — if you know one border, you can often reason your way to the answer. In Learning mode, trust the re-queue: a country you miss twice and then get right tends to stay learned. And island nations are everyone's weakness; a few Oceania-only rounds pay off disproportionately in Hard mode.

Who makes Orbil

Orbil is an independent game, built and run by one person. It has no account system — your stats and streaks live on your own device. Questions, bug reports, or country-border grievances: kstdyn@gmail.com.

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