9 Great Games Like Run To My Heart

Pokemon Go!

Content Rating: PEGI 7

Release Date: 06/07/2016

Price: Free

Platforms: Android and iOS

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting, Open World, Physically Active and Turn-Based

Accessibility: 17 features

Developer: @NianticLabs

Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room and up to 20 players online

Pokémon Go is a game you play by walking outside. You play on a smartphone so it can use the GPS to locate, capture, battle, and train virtual creatures, called Pokémon, which appear as if they are in the player's real-world location.

Runbit

Content Rating: PEGI 3

Release Date: 27/01/2018

Platforms: Android and iOS

Genres: Action, Open World and Physically Active

Developer: @Sdrstrm

Players: This is a single player game

Runbit (and its sister app Map Hunt) is a treasure hunt game you play by running or walking in the real world. As you run a map is displayed of your area with stars to collect on pavements, moving monsters to outwit and avoid and moving animals to track...

Ring Fit Adventure

Content Rating: PEGI 7

Release Date: 18/10/2019

Platforms: Switch

Genres: Action, Adventure, Fighting and Physically Active

Developer: @Nintendo

Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room

This is a running and jumping adventure game with a difference. You control your character with the circular plastic Ring-Con in your hands and Leg-Strap on your leg. The game can then tell how much you are moving and relate that to progress in the game.

Zombie Run

Content Rating: PEGI 12

Release Date: 27/02/2012, updated in 2019

Platforms: Android and iOS

Genres: Action, Adventure, Narrative and Physically Active

Developer: @SixToStart

Players: This is a single player game

Zombie Run is a combination of fitness app, radio play and zombie game. You choose the distance on the app, run in the real world and the narrative plays in your headphones.

GPS Pong

Content Rating: Not rated by PEGI

Release Date: 28/02/2015

Price: Free

Platforms: iOS

Genres: Action, Physically Active and Sports

Players: You can play with 2 players in the same room

GPS Pong is a game of retro pong played in the real world by running and walking to move your bat. Once you have set up the game on two smartphones you specify how much space you have and then move to position your bat to return the virtual ball to the...

Orna

Content Rating: PEGI 12

Release Date: 17/06/2019

Platforms: Android and iOS

Genres: Adventure, Physically Active, Role-Playing, Simulation and Turn-Based

Developer: @OdieRpg

Players: You can play this with 6 players online

Orna: The GPS RPG, as its longer name suggests, is a combination of role-playing adventure and real-world (geocache-style) treasure hunt. You select a character at the start of the game, and head out on a walk. As you do you can encounter creatures,...

Run An Empire

Content Rating: PEGI 3

Release Date: 22/08/2016

Platforms: Android and iOS

Genres: Action, Adventure, Physically Active and Strategy

Developer: @PAN_studio

Players: This is a single player game

Run an Empire is a combination of real-world running and a strategy game where you battle other players for land and resources. Once setup you run around your neighbourhood, which in the game is divided into small hexagons. As you encircle areas in the...

Ingress Prime

Content Rating: PEGI 3

Release Date: 14/12/2013

Platforms: Android and iOS

Genres: Adventure, Physically Active, Role-Playing, Simulation and Strategy

Developer: @NianticLabs

Players: You can play this with 1000 players online

Ingress (also known as Ingress Prime) is an adventure game that uses your smartphone's GPS to locate you in a game world that correlates with reality. You interact with virtual "portals" located near statues, monuments, civic and historic buildings in...

Stride

Expected Content Rating: PEGI 3

Release Date: 20/08/2020, updated in 2021

Platforms: Android and iOS

Genres: Open World, Physically Active, Simulation, Strategy and Turn-Based

Developer: @RunAnEmpire

Players: This is a single player game

Stride: Walk, Run, Capture is a strategy game played by walking and running in your local area. Each time you go for a run or walk you can with people in your area. However, this isn't for the fastest time or longest run. Here you need to complete...