Game-MAPS.com vs MapGenie

Game-MAPS.com is a free website offering game-specific maps, walkthroughs, zone guides, world maps, and solutions for puzzles and secrets. Founder Wojtek Antonowicz says he creates the maps, guides, texts, and opinions himself and chooses which games to cover. The site uses static illustrated maps rather than interactive ones, with numbered exploration points that can connect to written location descriptions, screenshots, and video clips. All content is available to everyone, and no account or registration is required. Readers can submit corrections, notes, and update reports through comments, Reddit, YouTube, or email; the creator says he tries to revise maps when games change or errors are reported. The terms warn that markers cannot be guaranteed completely accurate or current. Optional monthly or one-time contributions support the site, with payments processed through Google. Contributions do not remove ads entirely. The site is web-based and was founded in 2010.

MapGenie is an interactive game map website for tracking progress and locating game features. Its maps cover titles including Far Cry, Grand Theft Auto and Assassin's Creed, and it also publishes Android map apps for games such as Elden Ring, RDR2, Tears of the Kingdom and Genshin Impact. The service has a free plan and is available on the web, Android and iOS. On PC, users can right-click a map location to submit a suggestion for moderator review. The team shares updates about maps in progress and released maps; planned titles it has listed include Kingdom Hearts III, Titan Quest 1 and Dragon Age: Inquisition. MapGenie does not publish plan prices on its site. A representative says PRO upgrades are one-time purchases that provide lifetime features for the specific game's map or maps. The iOS app supports iPhone and iPad on iOS 15 or iPadOS 15 and later, and Macs with Apple M1 chips or later on macOS 12 or later. Its listing includes advertising and reports possible collection of email, user ID, usage and crash data not linked to identity; usage data may be used to track users across other companies' apps and websites.