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Jun 1 – Jun 7, 2026

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June 7, 2026

v0.57.1 — Expanded Spain high-speed rail

  • Expanded Spain high-speed rail coverage: The Ouigo network now reaches far beyond Madrid–Barcelona — connecting Sevilla, Málaga, Valencia, Murcia, Alicante, and Valladolid, with new stops including Córdoba, Zaragoza, and Albacete.
  • Fixed Tag deadline finish: When a Tag game hits its time limit with no one having reached their destination, the winner is now correctly decided by whose destination is closest to the evader.

June 7, 2026

v0.57.0 — Station, map, and challenge improvements

  • Cleaner walk screen when movement is paused — When the game temporarily disables movement, the stamina bar and keyboard hints are hidden and replaced with a short note.
  • Rebalanced trivia challenge — Trivia challenges are more forgiving: lower correct-answer thresholds on the easier rounds, and no more all-or-nothing rounds where a single wrong answer loses it.
  • Rebalanced visit N POIs challenges — These now scale more granularly with distance and can be as small as a single location.

June 5, 2026

v0.56.0 — Expanded Italian rail, map fixes, and a refreshed waiting room

  • New Tag challenge — a "match the photo with its name" challenge added to Tag games.

  • New Tag challenge — Spot the Local: each round shows several landmark photos, only one of them nearby; pick the local one every round to win.

  • More diverse trivia — quiz challenges can now ask questions tied to specific landmarks and points of interest near you.

  • Find mysterious place made easier — adjusted to come with more straightforward clues and higher rewards

  • Smarter route finder — now accounts for short walking transfers between nearby stations, so trips that require switching between close-but-separate stations are routed correctly.

  • Expanded transit coverage

    • Real tram, metro, and funicular networks for 25 French cities — Lyon, Bordeaux, Strasbourg, Nantes, Nice, Montpellier, Grenoble, and more — backed by real timetables.
    • Direct Ventimiglia → Milano trains along the Italian coast.
    • A new transit link between Lyon Saint-Exupéry airport and central Lyon.
    • Expanded Italian rail coverage — added regional and secondary rail across Emilia-Romagna (Bologna, Ferrara, Reggio Emilia), Trentino (Trento–Malé–Mezzana, Valsugana), and Alto Adige (Vinschgerbahn, Meran–Bozen, Pustertal).
    • Fixed occasional incorrectly-drawn transit route lines on the map.

  • The pre-game waiting room now has a scenic photo backdrop.

  • Behind-the-scenes performance and stability improvements.

June 1, 2026

v0.54.0 — Automatic walking mode, smoother Street View, and transit accuracy

  • Automatic walking mode — travel to a destination hands-free:
    • A look-ahead path-finder plans your route and keeps you moving through turns.
    • Removed the blurry images that used to appear while walking in regular Street View.
    • Enlarged minimap with a tap-to-walk popup and a centered player marker.
    • Pause and resume Auto-walk to look around.
  • Significantly improved the taxi-ride experience.
  • In-game time and dates now display in the game region's local timezone.
  • Hide & Seek: the in-map toolbar now displays correctly over the play-view map background.
  • More reliable train boarding (fixed a ticket-sync race during auto-advance).
  • Clearer on-screen notice if Google Maps fails to load.
  • Tag - now system ensures the "mysterious place" is somewhere reachable through streetview.
  • Tag - visit N POIs challenge easier to win at each POI
  • Expanded transit coverage:
    • Real ferry timetables for UK–Europe crossings.
    • New cross-border rail across South-East Europe, reconnecting Greece and 11 neighbouring countries.
    • Austria's local and regional railways are now reachable, including the Salzkammergut lake region and the branch lines off the main ÖBB network.
    • The London DLR is now correctly classified as a Metro line.
  • You can now minimize the central top panel to reclaim screen space — the clock, cash, and menu stay accessible.
  • Fullscreen-map tools (walk selection, distance ruler, coverage overlay) now reset when you reopen the map.
  • The dashboard no longer shifts your game cards around while your saved games are loading.

From the Community

Stations and places improved by players this week.

Entry point · DUBLIN PORT - STENA

Sunday, June 7
by Der Kormoran

Entry point · Calais Ferry Terminal

Sunday, June 7
by Der Kormoran

Entry point · Passerelle Cherbourg 2

Sunday, June 7
by Der Kormoran

Entry point · IJmuiden Ferry Terminal

Saturday, June 6
by Der Kormoran

Entry point · Southsea Hoverport

Friday, June 5
by inawinterwonderland

Entry point · Gosport Ferry Terminal

Friday, June 5
by inawinterwonderland

Cut-scene · Genève

Monday, June 1
Anonymous contributor

Station photos · Genève

Monday, June 1
Photos by 1 anonymous contributor

Entry point · Mellingen (Thüringen)

Monday, June 1
by Felynia