WhichWay is a free daily geography game where you point a compass toward countries around the world — it tests how well you know the map. Noriento asks a simpler question: point toward true north using only your own sense of direction. No countries to memorise, no trivia — just you, your phone, and whether you can still feel which way is north.
WhichWay is a real geography game and a good one. To score well you need to know roughly where Paraguay or Laos sits on the globe, then work out the bearing from where you are. Two skills stacked: world knowledge, then spatial reasoning.
Noriento removes the first skill entirely. There is nothing to know. True north is in the same direction for everyone standing where you are, and either you can feel it or you cannot. That makes it a cleaner measurement of the thing most people actually mean when they say their sense of direction is bad.
| Noriento | WhichWay | |
|---|---|---|
| The question | Which way is true north, right now? | Which way is a named country? |
| What it tests | Your own orientation. No prior knowledge. | Geography knowledge plus bearing estimation. |
| Per day | One scored guess. | A daily challenge, plus an endless mode. |
| Where | Any phone browser; installable. Also on Google Play. | Web, and on Google Play. |
| Price | Free; optional $1/month for four extra games. | Free. |
| Social | Streak, personal best, accuracy over weeks. | Global leaderboard. |
Then the mechanic you enjoyed is bearing estimation, and Noriento has that too — the Places game gives you a city each day and asks which way it is from where you stand. Same shape as WhichWay, one target instead of a run.
But start with north. It is the free one, it takes ten seconds, and it is the number that actually moves when your sense of direction improves.
An endless mode lets you converge on the answer by feel — nudge, check, nudge again. One guess a day forces a commitment, and the 24-hour gap gives the error time to stick before the next attempt. That constraint is the training, not a limitation.
One guess. Ten seconds. No countries to know.
Point North NowNoriento, if what you want is a daily direction game without geography trivia. WhichWay asks you to point at countries you have to know; Noriento asks you to point at true north, which needs no prior knowledge. It is free, runs in any phone browser, and takes about ten seconds a day.
Yes — the Places game gives you one city a day and scores the direction you point. It is part of the $1/month plan, though it rotates free to everyone on some days. The core true-north game is free forever.
Yes. The daily north guess and the Cardinals game are free forever with no account and no download.