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Sunlight falling through the rainforest canopy onto a narrow trail between ferns

Early alpha, build 0.7

Off the Map

A slow-paced hiking game for nature lovers.

Walk real landscapes at your own pace. Real terrain, real plants, no hurry.

iPhone and iPad

iOS 15 or later, and Apple’s free TestFlight app.

Mac

Apple silicon (M1 or later), macOS 14 or later. Intel Macs aren’t supported.

  • TestFlight 0.7.0

    Join on TestFlight

    Needs Apple’s free TestFlight app for Mac; updates come through TestFlight. Send feedback from inside TestFlight.

  • DMG 0.7.0 · 523 MB

    Download the DMG

    Notarised by Apple. Open the disk image and drag Off the Map to Applications.

    N changes the weather, ⌘F switches to full screen; every key is listed on screen.

Android

Android 11 or later, 64-bit, Vulkan 1.1 and 4 GB of memory, with a mid-range chip from about 2021 or newer (Snapdragon 695, Exynos 1280, Dimensity 7000 or better).

  • Google Play 0.7.0

    Join on Google Play

    Join the test, then install Off the Map from Google Play; updates come through the Play Store.

  • APK 0.7.0 · 117 MB

    Download the APK

    Open the downloaded file and allow your browser to install unknown apps. Play Protect may warn about an app from outside Google Play.

    Check the file (SHA-256)6d201bb6759bb372ae4ab04a28369603398576434882322bac415c9f03bf95bb

Windows

Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. A DirectX 12 graphics card; 8 GB or more of video memory recommended, untested below. 16 GB of memory and about 4 GB of free disk space (the game, and the world it downloads at the first start).

  • Microsoft Store 0.7.0 recommended

    Get it from the Microsoft Store

    Signed by Microsoft, so Windows starts it without a warning; updates come through the Store. During the alpha the Store page opens only from this link.

  • Installer 0.7.0 · 336 MB

    Download the installer

    Installs for your Windows account alone, no administrator needed. At the first start the game downloads its world (about 2.9 GB).

    The installer isn’t signed, so Windows shows “Windows protected your PC”: choose “More info”, then “Run anyway”.

    An early test: tell us what happens. Uninstalling keeps your saves.

    Check the file (SHA-256)7ed14657cc4090d04785b2de12f99e04a3d4fd2a982f504d980b534abebc9b3c

  • Zip 0.7.0 · 377 MB

    Download the zip

    The same game as a folder, without an installer. Unzip it anywhere and start OffTheMap.exe; Windows warns the same way.

    Check the file (SHA-256)ed4043dc621593f521baec6cb4eb9f0954261e6c8d6cd81f23a0666cdcb9b370

For iPhone, iPad, Mac (Apple silicon), Android and Windows, free while in alpha.

The Off the Map compass: a brass ring around a view of forest, lake and mountains

Leave the map. Find your own way.

Off the Map is a hiking game without quest markers. Each world is a real place, rebuilt from its elevation data and maps and grown from its own plants. You choose the trail, stop where you like, and walk on when you’re ready.

Real places

Terrain from real elevation data and OpenStreetMap, one to one. The trails are where they are.

Grown from real plants

Each world’s forest is modelled from its own species, zone by zone, from the valley to the summit.

Slow by design

No enemies, no timer, no score. You walk, climb over fallen trunks, and look around.

Built to grow

More worlds in other biomes. Mist and rain are in; later, camping, gear, and weather that matters.

Worlds

One real place at a time. The first is the hardest test we could find for a forest.

Wild coffee with red berries, ferns and oil palms in the lowland forest
Rain on wild coffee, a giant begonia and ferns beside the trail
A giant begonia in flower among ferns, the sun behind the trees
The trail running into the light past giant begonias and ferns
Drizzle on giant begonias, Costus and ferns in the montane forest
A giant begonia in flower in the mist
Looking up into crooked, mossy trees hung with beard lichen in the mist
Begonias and tree ferns in the misty cloud forest

In alpha now

São Tomé, rainforest

A volcanic island on the equator, and a 28 km trail from the lowland forest at 450 m to the summit of Pico de São Tomé at 2,024 m. Giant figs with buttress roots, strangler figs, tree ferns, wild coffee and giant begonias; above 1,400 m the cloud forest, crooked trees hung with moss and beard lichen. Sun, mist and rain come and go.

Trail
28 km
Climb
450 to 2,024 m
Forest
22 plant species
See it moving

The next world

Another landscape, another biome. Chosen, not yet announced.

And the one after

Worlds come one at a time, each walked and researched before it is built.

Fifteen seconds on the trail

Recorded in the Mac build of alpha 0.3: the lowland trail in the sun, then drizzle in the cloud forest, with the forest’s sound.

Sound: elevenlabs.io · Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors · Terrain produced using Copernicus WorldDEM-30 · All credits

Where it’s going

  1. Now

    The first world: the rainforest trail on São Tomé, from the lowland forest up into the cloud forest, in alpha on iPhone, Mac and Android, with weather that changes on its own: sun, cloud, mist and rain.

  2. Next

    Tracks and dirt roads, and the rest of the trail to the summit.

  3. Later

    More worlds in other biomes. Camping, gear, time of day, and weather that matters to how you hike.

Help shape it

The alpha is for people who like walking in the woods and don’t mind rough edges. Play for ten minutes, then tell us:

  • Does it feel like a real forest?
  • Where does it look empty, wrong or repetitive?
  • Any stutters, or places where you get stuck?

Tell us with the feedback form.

iPhone and iPad

iOS 15 or later, and Apple’s free TestFlight app.

Mac

Apple silicon (M1 or later), macOS 14 or later. Intel Macs aren’t supported.

  • TestFlight 0.7.0

    Join on TestFlight

    Needs Apple’s free TestFlight app for Mac; updates come through TestFlight. Send feedback from inside TestFlight.

  • DMG 0.7.0 · 523 MB

    Download the DMG

    Notarised by Apple. Open the disk image and drag Off the Map to Applications.

    N changes the weather, ⌘F switches to full screen; every key is listed on screen.

Android

Android 11 or later, 64-bit, Vulkan 1.1 and 4 GB of memory, with a mid-range chip from about 2021 or newer (Snapdragon 695, Exynos 1280, Dimensity 7000 or better).

  • Google Play 0.7.0

    Join on Google Play

    Join the test, then install Off the Map from Google Play; updates come through the Play Store.

  • APK 0.7.0 · 117 MB

    Download the APK

    Open the downloaded file and allow your browser to install unknown apps. Play Protect may warn about an app from outside Google Play.

    Check the file (SHA-256)6d201bb6759bb372ae4ab04a28369603398576434882322bac415c9f03bf95bb

Windows

Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit. A DirectX 12 graphics card; 8 GB or more of video memory recommended, untested below. 16 GB of memory and about 4 GB of free disk space (the game, and the world it downloads at the first start).

  • Microsoft Store 0.7.0 recommended

    Get it from the Microsoft Store

    Signed by Microsoft, so Windows starts it without a warning; updates come through the Store. During the alpha the Store page opens only from this link.

  • Installer 0.7.0 · 336 MB

    Download the installer

    Installs for your Windows account alone, no administrator needed. At the first start the game downloads its world (about 2.9 GB).

    The installer isn’t signed, so Windows shows “Windows protected your PC”: choose “More info”, then “Run anyway”.

    An early test: tell us what happens. Uninstalling keeps your saves.

    Check the file (SHA-256)7ed14657cc4090d04785b2de12f99e04a3d4fd2a982f504d980b534abebc9b3c

  • Zip 0.7.0 · 377 MB

    Download the zip

    The same game as a folder, without an installer. Unzip it anywhere and start OffTheMap.exe; Windows warns the same way.

    Check the file (SHA-256)ed4043dc621593f521baec6cb4eb9f0954261e6c8d6cd81f23a0666cdcb9b370