# Geo Racers

28 Hacker News commenters recommended Geo Racers and 17 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 1 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** Fans find it a fun, addictive challenge of planning public transport trips across Europe. Common caveats are a buggy interface, incomplete maps and timetables, and a leaderboard with impossible times.

## Why people recommend it

- Fun, addictive, challenging gameplay (6 comments): "I actually really liked the current mode - for me it was a more fun and exciting challenge" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46998834)) "I spent way too much time on this yesterday! Love it but it's super tricky." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47000714)) "This is amazing. Super challenging." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46998825))
- Lovely idea about transit travel (3 comments): "idea is absolutely lovely, but it is really hard to plan ahead" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46990236)) "What an incredible idea! Love it" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46987833)) "This rules! What a fun idea." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46989967))

## What people warn about

- Bugs and broken controls (6 comments): "the whole interface is very twitchy for me" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46988011)) "A great idea with quite a few bugs." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47013306)) "Checking/unchecking some items does not appear to toggle their visibility." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46989501))
- Map missing place names and scale (3 comments): "Nice job! It would be helpful when using public transportation to see the names of places overlaid on the map." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46994367)) "showed all their destinations as London, but without any precise place of where I would arrive." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47001660)) "Neat game! I would like the map to have a scale bar though." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46990878))
- Timetables hard to access or wrong (2 comments): "on mobile particularly I often found it very difficult to access the departure timetable" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47002148)) "Some timetables are very wrong unfortunately." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47002745))
- Leaderboard shows impossible times (2 comments): "I had a lot of fun :) . Cleaning up the leader board would be appreciated though." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46988783)) "On the Inverness to Gibraltar race the leaderboard has impossible times, including some negative numbers." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47003783))

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## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Geo Racers", https://hackerapproved.com/p/geo-racers/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).