AroundState vs USA State Game
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AroundState
Test your knowledge of US state geography by guessing the correct state based on its surrounding neighbors. This educational game challenges your spatial reasoning and understanding of state borders, offering a fun way to learn and reinforce geography.
- Guess state by surrounding states
- Improves understanding of state locations
- Requires critical thinking and elimination
- Suitable for group play
- Challenges geographical knowledge
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Guess the state. The question shows the surrounding states. Question: Oregon Idaho Answer: Washington This app will give you a better understanding of the state's location. It is especially for those who can indicate which state is on the map when told the name of a state or who can say what state it is when pointed to on the map. Compared to simple problems, guessing from the surrounding states requires a solid understanding of their locations. It requires new thinking. It is assumed that you will not look at the choices until you find it. Challenge yourself to eliminate the candidates correctly by looking at the states in question. Reading out the questions makes for a fun game recommended for large groups. Utah, Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico are touching at one point. All combinations are in contact with each other. Colorado and Arizona touch. Utah and New Mexico touch.
USA State Game
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USA State Game No account, ads, or purchases A local name and avatar help learners keep their progress separate on a shared device. Profiles do not sync online. There are no ads or in-app purchases, and the game does not upload learner records. Practice all 50 states, their capitals and shapes. Start with the Northeast lesson, follow the Learning Path, or practice by skill. Progress saves on this device. USA State Game is a United States geography practice game for states, capitals, and state shapes. It includes a learning path, focused skill practice, regional activities, progress views, and missed-answer review in skill and regional practice. The installed native app includes the game for offline practice. The website needs an internet connection to load. Do not rely on the website being available offline. Text-only geography Practice states and capitals without shape challenges. This choice applies only to this learner. Practice coverage counts only the applicable challenges; mastery and recorded-answer accuracy are shown separately. Learn tracks completed lessons. Saved points and previous progress are preserved. Choose from 20 interface languages, including right-to-left layouts. Each learner can save a language choice. New profiles start with a supported device language. Optional feedback Review four fixed choices before sending a support report. No learner names, answers, progress, screenshots, local diagnostics or files are attached. The feedback service processes connection information to deliver the report and limit abuse. See the privacy policy for retention and deletion-request details.
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Verdict
AroundState and USA State Game are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | AroundState | USA State Game |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Motonari Hibi | Omar Megdadi |
In-app purchases
AroundState
No in-app purchases
USA State Game
No in-app purchases
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