- ARQuake (Wearable Computer Lab, 1999)
- Geocaching (Dave Ulmer, 2000)
- The Beast (Microsoft, 2001)
- Can You See Me Now? (Blast Theory, 2001)
- Botfighters (It’s Alive, 2001)
- Mogi, Item Hunt (Newt Games, 2003)
- Big Urban Game (Nick Fortugno, Frank Lantz, Katie Salen, 2003)
- Demor (Bartiméus, 2003)
- The Songs of the North (Petri Lankoski & colleagues, 2003)
- PacManhattan (Frank Lantz & students, 2004)
- Alien Revolt (M1nd Corporation, 2005)
- Shoot Me If You Can (Taeyoon Choi, 2005)
- Five Courts (KMA, 2006)
- Insectopia (Johan Peitz, Hannamari Saarenpää & Staffan Björk, 2007)
- Plymouth Play (Ludic Society, 2007)
- The Shroud (Your World Games, 2008)
- Parallel Kingdom (PerBlue, 2008)
- Seek ‘n Spell (Retronyms, 2009)
- Gbanga Famiglia (Gbanga , 2010)
- Urban Codemakers (Troy Innocent, 2010)
- Shadow Cities (Grey Area, 2011)
- Please Stay Calm (Massive Damage, 2011)
- CodeRunner (Robot Chicken Interactive, 2011)
- Ingress (Niantic Labs, 2012)
- Zombies, Run! (Six to Start & Naomi Alderman, 2012)
- Life is Magic (Red Robot Labs, 2012)
- Dokobots (Dokogeo, 2012)
- Resources (UN3X, 2015)
- Real Estate Tycoon (a.k.a. Landlord) (Reality Games, 2015)
- Run an Empire (Pan Studio, 2016)
- Pokémon GO (Niantic Labs, 2016)
- Wayfinder Live (Troy Innocent, 2016)
- The Walking Dead: Our World (Next Games, 2018)
- Jurassic World Alive (2018)
- Ghostbusters World (FourThirtyThree Inc, 2018)
- Moomin Move (Tribered, 2018)
- GoCity (Shipyard Games, 2019)
- Harry Potter: Wizards Unite (Niantic Labs, 2019)
The list of location-based games was compiled by Dr. Leorke in 2019 for the The Future of Location-based Gaming Research group.