Game-MAPS.com vs Retro Game Guides

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.

Retro Game Guides is an iPhone and iPad offline reader and library for classic game walkthroughs. Reflow, Original, and No wrap layouts provide different reading presentations; Reflow adjusts prose to the phone width while preserving recognized maps and tables. Guide headings become a Contents view, search results include surrounding passage context, and each guide keeps its reading position. Readers can highlight passages, add notes, and bookmark locations, collected in the Notes tab. Plain-text imports up to 10 MB support folder previews, duplicate skipping, and review of uncertain matches. Supported online guide pages can be saved as attributed text snapshots for offline reading. The library also includes original Standard Edition walkthroughs whose pages identify game platform and route scope. Once content is available on-device, reading, organization, search, progress, favorites, bookmarks, highlights, and notes work offline. The maker says there is no account, advertising, analytics, tracking, or cloud-sync service. The free plan covers up to three games; Unlimited Library costs $4.99, paid once.