Landing Party Called “Best of the Show” at Augmented World Expo

June 20, 2026 – Landing Party, the world’s first outdoor roleplaying game, was called “best of the show” at Augmented World Expo, the world’s largest augmented reality trade show. The game is made by Monsarrat, a Los Angeles based company. 

This is the second time that its founder, Johnny Monsarrat, invented a new category of video game. He previously co-invented MMOs, as the Founder, CEO, and CTO of Turbine, one of the “big three” first MMO game companies. Turbine’s MMOs included Dungeons & Dragons Online, D.I.C.E. “RPG Game of the Year” Asheron’s Call, and PC Gamer “MMO Game of the Year” Lord of the Rings Online. Warner Bros. later bought Turbine for $160 million.

Now Monsarrat is taking his expertise outside. Outdoor walking games were defined in 2016 by Niantic’s Pokémon Go, which has earned a staggering $9 billion. But Pokémon Go’s GPS point technology didn’t support gaming’s most popular genres: roleplaying, action, strategy, and simulation.

Monsarrat’s new beta game, Landing Party, could show the way. It’s an Outdoor RPG inspired by its founder’s background in MMOs and backed up by 8 patents. Instead of placing one creature at a GPS point, Landing Party lays out an entire fantasy world across an open map space, which the player walks through to play. The game has no fixed locations, allowing players to set their next game mission in their back yard, a local park, or any other open space, even a small one.

See press reactions to Landing Party from Augmented Reality, whose praise included:

  • “That was the best game I experienced at AWE.”           — Charlie Fink, former Forbes journalist
  • “It is the best game I’ve seen at the show, for sure… there’s nothing that I’ve played or even seen in the last two days here except really this that would make me want to go out and buy a pair of smart glasses. There’s nothing on the market like it.”      — Marty Hails, unpaid major influencer
  • “This is the most that I’ve been impressed.”                    — Kaleah Wilson, unpaid major influencer
  • “Powerful and unique… It’s great. It’s very, very, very powerful. Have the Niantic [Pokemon Go] folks seen this, like ‘where have you been all my life?'” — Ted Schilowitz, former Futurist at Fox and Paramount.

Landing Party is free on Apple App Store and Google Play. See links and videos at monsarrat.com.

About Monsarrat

Monsarrat is an AR game company based in Los Angeles, whose first game, Landing Party, is an “Outdoor RPG”, a new type of AR mobile walking game that supports deeper, MMO-style storytelling and player interaction.

Press kit: https://monsarrat.com/presskit

Videos: https://youtube.com/@monsarratgames

Contact: Johnny Monsarrat, CEO, jmonsarrat@monsarrat.com.