Top Groningen Self-guided Tours

Explore Groningen in this self-guided detective scavenger hunt. In City Detective, you and your team solve a fictional case while exploring the city: a respected scientist was found murdered in her office at the University, and it’s up to you to crack the case. This fun and flexible Groningen city game lets you follow clues, eliminate suspects, and solve puzzles using your own smartphone. Along the way, you'll uncover quirky facts, hidden gems, and iconic landmarks, making it a unique thing to do in Groningen. Highlights: • Self-guided scavenger hunt through Groningen city centre. • Play at your own pace: start and pause whenever you like. • Follow clues, solve puzzles, and eliminate suspects. • Great for couples, families, friends or team outings. • Use your own phone = no tour guide needed. Whether you're with friends, family, or colleagues, this Groningen detective game is a fun, flexible and interactive way to explore the city and challenge your inner sleuth.

Discover Groningen like never before with the Secrets of Groningen City Game, a fun self-guided walking tour and city game packed with puzzles, riddles and hidden stories! This GPS-based exploration game lets you experience Groningen while exploring famous spots such as Martini Tower (Martinitoren), Prinsentuin, Forum Groningen, Grote Markt, Vismarkt, Synagoge Groningen and A-kerk. Play solo for a personal challenge or together with friends, family or colleagues. During the game you solve tricky questions, puzzles, riddles and creative photo tasks to score points, unlock extra clues and solve the final mystery. Pause whenever you want and continue later at your own pace. Compete for a place on the leaderboard or play competitively for team building, making this scavenger hunt and walking tour through Groningen perfect for every type of explorer.

Groningen itself becomes the puzzle in this self-guided outdoor escape game - no venue, no host, just your team and the streets. Magnus has taken the formulas and scattered the proof across the old centre, past Stadhuis Groningen and Martinikerkhof, and every location holds a code, a riddle or a photo task waiting to be cracked. Roles matter here: one player reads, another looks, and the team moves on only once you agree. Send two or more teams out at the same time and the hunt becomes a contest, which is what makes this city escape game work as well for a team-building afternoon as for a day out with friends. Reading clues while the city moves around you is part of the challenge.

There's been a murder in the city. The police can't figure it out and time is ticking. Are you up for the challenge? With photos and a city map, you go into the city, looking for the right locations. At each location you take a group selfie and receive a new clue. Step by step you are getting closer to the truth. Can you solve the murder within 3 hours? In the meantime, you will discover surprising places you would normally pass by. This is no ordinary city walk, but an interactive experience that you experience together.

Groningen is the Netherlands' northern secret — a student city with a medieval tower, a world-class museum, and a hidden alleyway that's been there since the 1400s. This app-led scavenger hunt takes you through Groningen on foot, using phone-based riddles to guide you from one landmark to the next. No guide, no fixed start time. • Chase riddles to the Martinitoren, the Groninger Museum, and the medieval Papengang — eight centuries in one afternoon • Start whenever you want and move at whatever pace suits the group • Perfect for families, friends, or curious solo explorers Available in 24 languages including English, French, German, Spanish, Italian — see the full list when booking and choose yours when you start the game in the app. Around 2 hours - any group size. The Martinitoren has been watching over Groningen for 600 years — time you met it properly.

Groningen becomes the crime scene in this self-guided detective game, where the clues are hidden in plain sight in the streets around you. The case is the murder of Balthasar, and the evidence is scattered across the old centre - past Prinsentuin, Der Aa-kerk, Forum Groningen and Grote Markt. You decode messages, photograph what does not add up and press digital witnesses whose stories never quite line up. Every puzzle you crack removes a name from the list of suspects. Play as a couple, bring the children along, or send two or three teams out at the same time and turn the investigation into a race - which is what makes this murder mystery game work as well for a team outing as for a day out. The last answer is waiting somewhere in the centre of Groningen.

Go on an adventure in the city of your choice in the Netherlands with our Urban Escape Games. Walk around the city with your team (with family or friends) and let yourself be guided by the mobile application. Solve the puzzles and complete several missions. Take a good look at your surroundings to help you! Explore differently: your adventure starts now!