Landing Party is the world’s first outdoor roleplaying game! It’s a mobile game that lays out a fantasy world across a real-world space. Then you physically walk to explore. It’s a new category of video game that’s never been seen before! Here’s our vision.

1. You don’t get assigned a game location. You choose where to play. So you don’t have to walk to unknown places all over your city. Play anywhere you can safely walk.
2. You do more than walk to a GPS point and stop to get one creature. Instead you explore a 3D world with hundreds of objects. That supports more interesting gameplay beyond just collecting stuff.
3. You don’t get different rewards for playing in different places. You could play the whole game just in your back yard with the same rewards.

Get the mobile game on Apple App Store or Google Play. There’s also an AR glasses version on Google Play if you own XREAL AURA wired XR glasses.

Unlike Pokemon Go, you don’t get assigned a GPS location to go to. We don’t choose where to play. You do. Wherever you open the app, that’s where you can play.

Just pick a walkable space that’s safe. Think, could I kick a ball around here? Could I play catch here? If not, find a better place.

Yes! You don’t need to go to a big park. Just play in your own back yard or a small park.

To play in a small space, you can manually move the game world. See the Moving the Game World section, below.

We’d prefer that you go outside, especially the first time that you play. Outside, you’ll have more room to walk. The sun and birds and stuff are out there. It’s great. Maybe you’ll find an uneaten donut. Mmm, street donut.

But if you want to play indoors, you can do it!

• Make space. Choose a room with space to walk. Push the furniture out of the way. Clean up the dirty socks and empty pizza boxes on the floor.
• Move the game world. Then, as you walk, move the game when you need to. See Moving the Game World, below.
• Avoid blank walls. Don’t get too close to walls or big windows. They confuse the game, which uses the camera to “see” your movement and match the game world to it.
• Super speed! Tap the walking man icon at the bottom of the screen. Then every step you take in a tight space will move you many steps in the game world.

No. The game needs to “see” to track your movement and match the game world to it.

Who wants to play in the dark, anyway? There’s where the bats are. Vampire bats.

There aren’t any. Unlike Pokemon Go, you don’t get different rewards for playing in different places. You could play the whole game just in your back yard for the same rewards.

You have complete control over where to set the game world. We don’t even use GPS. If the game gets set down somewhere awkward, that was you.

If you haven’t begun to play, close the app and go someplace else. If you’re already in a mission, move the game world. See the Moving the Game World section, below.

It’s better to play in a flat, level space. Don’t play anywhere dangerous like a steep hill or stairs.

But if you’re on a beach that slopes gently down to the water, or in a park with a mild slope, that’s fine. The game world will automatically adjust its height to match your level, so you don’t become a giant. Fee, fi, fo, fum!

Yes! With other players, you can play either in-person or remotely with anyone from around the world. You’ll each be walking, just in different cities!

• Combat. In “Shoot Everything: Train”, your goal is just to defeat 5 enemies. It’s a simple way to get started.
• Rescue. The other combat missions are more sophisticated. Your goal isn’t just to shoot enemies. Instead, you’ll explore an evil sci-fi laboratory, find a cute alien lab animal, rescue it, and take it out of the game through a futuristic portal.
• Roleplaying. The “campaign” missions each have different, story-based goals. You’ll lead diplomats to their escape shuttle, hunt for a secret base, and solve a 3D puzzle to let a shuttle safely land.

In the “combat” tab, Shoot Everything: Train is an easy first mission.

We don’t have that right now, but we’ll add it soon.

What are your ideas? Join our Discord to help shape this new category of video game!

• Check your objective at the top of the screen.
• Tap the menu in the upper right for objective details.
• Look for a yellow arrow at the bottom of the screen will pointing where you’re supposed to go.
• If you see a red circle with arrows, you’re being attacked! Turn in the direction of the red arrow to find your enemy.
• You can also ask questions in our Discord community or contact us with your questions and feedback.

This can happen! In the game world, if there’s a rock or a wall in front of you, you can’t walk through it. Like a treadmill the game stops you. So don’t walk through rocks or creatures or spaceships. Go around them.

If you’re playing in a small space and you’re not sure how to go around an obstacle, remember that you can move the game world.

Just move the game world! We call this “Grab the Game”. You can move the game world when:

• A park bench blocks you from walking,
• You’re indoors and there’s a wall in your way,
• You’re in a park and need to avoid other people, or the street, or some flowers,
• It’s a sunny day and you want to keep the entire game in a small area, under the shadow of a tree, or
• If you walk many steps and want to return to your start point. Turn the game 180 degrees and come back!

You’re holding the phone too far out. Just hold the phone normally.

• If you’re near-sighted, take off your glasses, just like you would do walk around with a map app.
• Don’t hold the phone up to your face. Hold it at a normal distance.
• Don’t cover the phone camera with your hand. We need that to track your movement and match the game world to you.
• Don’t hunch over. The game world isn’t at your feet. It’s at eye level, in the real world all around you.

No. If you run or walk backwards, the game will detect that and stop the world like a treadmill. There’s a speed limit on how your avatar can move through the game.

But walking safely is all that you need. Landing Party isn’t an athletic competition. You win by exploring and being clever.

And check this out: we have a feature called super speed!

On a phone, tap the little guy at the bottom of the screen. (On AR glasses, gesture up with your right hand.)

Then each real world step moves you multiple steps in the game world. It’s super fun.

Keep tapping the guy to move through 4 levels of super speed: 1x, 4x, 6x, and 8x.

In the “combat” tab, tap multiplayer and either:

• The team leader creates a new mission. You can be the team leader, or maybe it’s somebody else.
• Then everyone else joins that mission.

We have 3 game modes:

1. Total Chaos. Players compete against each other. Only one can win!
2. One Team vs Monsters. Soon!
3. Team vs. Team. Soon!

So right now, there’s no collaborative play. We’re working on it!

How do you think multiplayer should work in our game? Join our Discord community and we’d love to hear all about it.

Yes! 

1. Create a mission and tap to invite random people to join.
2. Or just go directly to “Join” and tap to enter a mission that somebody else set up.

When you’re playing with others, in-person or remotely, you’ll get a voice chat. Unmute yourself to talk.

Right now, there’s no text chat or messaging in the game, inside or outside of missions. But you can join our Discord community to chat and make friends there!

Once your mission ends, you’ll still be in the “lobby” with your team mates. You’ll still have voice chat.

Then when you leave the lobby or exit the game, those people are gone. We don’t currently have a way to mark someone as a “friend” in the game and to see a list of active friends. We don’t have any kind of player text chat or messaging right now.

But on the voice call you can tell each other your Discord usernames. Here is our Discord channel, where you can chat, meet new people, and help us shape the future of this brand new type of video game.

When you first play, you get assigned a random avatar. To change it, open the app, and you’ll see the Main / Dashboard page. Then click the face or name in the upper left.

Tap the icon with three lines, in the upper right.

When you open the menu or minimize the app:

• Solo: the game will pause.
• Multiplayer: the game continues and your avatar helplessly waits for you to return! Be quick!

See your team and controls for the voice call.

The game map is under development, but you can see a little of what’s happening.

It’s only a map of the game world. We don’t use GPS and we don’t show how the game is placed into the real world. Maybe we’ll add this in the future as an option.

The height of the game world is set automatically, but if you need to adjust it, you can do it in the menu.

Landing Party will not record your gameplay. Just use the built-in screen recorder on your phone.

But, the menu has options to make recording your game smoother. For example, you can make the screen icons invisible and prevent pesky notifications.

Did you know that you can rotate your phone 90 degrees and still play that way? Try it!

Tap exit at the bottom of the menu to leave the mission, or just close the app completely.

You’ll also leave your team, so you won’t be in the lobby for chat after the mission ends.

Just like Pokemon Go, our game is rated 12+. Some of the missions have cartoon violence, but the Emergency Landing mission doesn’t.

Unlike Pokemon Go, you don’t get assigned to walk to unknown GPS locations. You just play wherever it’s safe to walk. You could play the entire game indoors or just in your own back yard.

Here’s our privacy policy, and here are our terms of use.

We don’t. We don’t need it. You choose where to play. We don’t suggest where to play.

In the future, we might add a GPS feature:

• To get matched with players in your same city, or
• To display a real world map underneath the game map.

But that would be optional.

Not if you’re playing solo. Right now, we only use the Internet for multiplayer.

• On phones, you’ll have cell data almost anywhere, of course.
• On AR glasses, the XREAL AURA is set up by default only with WiFi Internet. But you can connect your phone and use cell data if you want to play in some park where you don’t have WiFi.

Some future version of Landing Party will also use the Internet for your player profile and game stats.

Only for now! We know, we know. We’re pushing ahead with polishing the game and adding new features.

Soon you’ll find:

• A smoother user interface,
• A completed map view,
• Collaborative team play,
• Leaderboards and player advancement,
• Smarter monsters and movement,
• A fleshed our series of roleplaying missions with a real story,
• and more.

What are your ideas? Join our community on Discord to help shape the future of this new category of game, never seen before!

Maybe that rock just doesn’t want to talk with you right now.

We’ll work on that. The game characters should react when you tap them, we know.

For now, Landing Party doesn’t have player advancement. You can’t earn long-term points, and you can’t advance. Once a mission is over, it’s like everything resets.

But we’re building it! How do you think it should work? Join our community our Discord and help drive the future of outdoor gaming.

Yes! We support the XREAL AURA wired XR glasses. You’ll walk around using hand gestures to control the game.

Very bright place

To play in very bright sunlight:

• On phones:
  • Take off your sunglasses,
  • Increase the brightness of your phone screen, or
  • Find a shady tree to play under, and use “Grab the Game” to keep the entire game world in that shadow.
• On AR glasses, you should be fine. The game sets the transparency level automatically. Or you can set the level using the physical red hardware “X” button on the AR glasses, but we restrict you from making the game world opaque.

Dim place

To play when it’s dim, like outdoors at dusk or indoors with the lights off:

• On phones, you should be fine. The camera just needs enough light to see the world and track your movement.
• With AR glasses, you’ll get a warning and the game will stop. Dim lighting screws up the transparency settings. Landing Party makes your display transparent so that you can see the game world clearly but also see the real world behind it that you are walking through. That doesn’t work in dim lighting.

Dark place

If it’s dark, the game will warn you and stop. You can’t play in the dark. The phone camera needs to see the world to track your movement and match the game world to it.

Should we be worried about you? Why are you trying to walk around in the dark? Would you play football at night with no lighting? Do something else.

As we improve the game, we’ll fix this loophole.

But for now, there is a sneaky way to be invincible in the game, if only you can discover how. Don’t abuse it!

Did you know that you can rotate your phone 90 degrees and still play that way? Try it!

In Emergency Landing Mission, you can move the repulsor while its shooting its beam.

When you complete a mission, and see your game statistics, did you notice that the game counts your steps?

A little exercise is great for mental and physical health!

Every step you take, you’ll move 1x, 4x, 6x, or 8x steps in the game world. Just keep tapping to access all 4 levels.

Super speed also effectively magnifies the real world space that you’re walking in. Get it? So it makes playing in small spaces even easier.

If the game world isn’t placed properly, cover the phone camera with your hand. Then remove your hand and the game world will reset.

Right now:

• You can play with people you know,
• Or you can get matched with random people online.

What you can’t do yet is to “friend” somebody in the game, someone you enjoyed playing with. You also can’t message people in the game.

But, you can join our Discord community and make friends that way! And then set up games with them directly.

While playing with a friend, have someone call them. Your friend answers the call, which minimizes the Landing Party app.

That makes their avatar helpless in the game world. Moo ha ha! Vengeance shall be mine!

Monsarrat is a game maker based in Los Angeles but with its team mostly in Warsaw, Poland. Our Founder, CEO, and CTO Johnny Monsarrat previously co-invented MMO gaming back in the 1990s, a type of community game where making friends online is part of the fun. Now with Landing Party you can make friends online, or in the real world!

Join our community on Discord to meet new people and help guide the future of outdoor gaming. What do you think we should add to the game?

Yes! See our press kit here.

Could be! It varies month to month. See our jobs page.

Ha! I have no tuba.

But we do have stunt videos of showing our game to sharks and monkeys, and lots of things you should never do while playing Landing Party, like riding on a real World War II tank or wearing water jets.

The most common problem is that the first time people play, they do it indoors. It’s an outdoor walking game. Go outdoors to learn to play at least that one first time.

Then, if you don’t know what to do in the game:

• Look for the objective at the top of the screen.
• Look for an AR arrow at the bottom of the screen.
• Items that you need to tap will sometimes be highlighted.
• If you’re having trouble following the scanner, a yellow arrow will sometimes appear giving you a hint.
• Or check out Map View in the menu. It’s unfinished but shows you where everything is!

If you shut off all game tutorials, soon we’ll have a menu feature to turn them on again.

Join our Discord community. Be part of the discussion and help us make outdoor gaming great!