Edinburgh Self-Guided City Exploration Game: City of Wizards

Explore Edinburgh on a self-guided city exploration game that blends an outdoor escape game and treasure hunt via the Questo app.

Getting started

Unlock your self-guided city exploration game using your booking number and e-mail address on the Questo website, then download the Questo app and sign in with the same e-mail. Start the game in Edinburgh whenever you choose after booking, with no need to reschedule. You move at your own pace, using your phone to follow clues and challenges.

What to expect

Edinburgh Castle

Perched above the city, Edinburgh Castle is a key stop on your route, forming part of the wizard-themed trail through the Old Town streets.

Features

• Follow a city route past Edinburgh Castle while your game combines tour, outdoor escape game, and treasure hunt elements into a single experience.
• Use game access in the Questo app to unlock story-driven challenges that reference the castle surroundings without needing any entry tickets to attractions.
• Encounter a uniquely crafted story by top writers that introduces wizarding lore and connects the castle viewpoint to the wider City of Wizards narrative.

Greyfriars Bobby Statue

Near the historic kirkyard, the Greyfriars Bobby Statue appears along your path as you continue solving clues in the self-paced adventure.

Features

• Reach the Greyfriars Bobby Statue through the same tour, outdoor escape game, treasure hunt mix, solving tasks that guide you between streets and courtyards.
• Rely on the self-guided city exploration game for directions and puzzles here, supported at all times by 24/7 customer support if you need technical help.
• Progress through new chapters of the uniquely crafted story by top writers that link local legends around Greyfriars to your wizard-focused quest.

City Chambers

Edinburgh’s City Chambers area becomes another key waypoint, tying together civic buildings and hidden corners as your route unfolds.

Features

• Walk past City Chambers as the app-based game reveals clues in nearby spots, using outdoor escape game and treasure hunt elements to move you from task to task.
• Play anytime after booking with a flexible start time, choosing when to begin this section so you can pause or continue according to your schedule.
• Experience more of the self-guided city exploration game format here, with the Questo app keeping you on track without a tour guide.

J.K. Rowling cafe and Hogwarts inspiration site

Your journey also includes modern literary landmarks that connect Edinburgh to a world of wizards and magic.

Features

• See views of the J.K. Rowling cafe where she wrote her novels, as indicated in the game route, while continuing to solve on-screen riddles and challenges.
• Visit the place that inspired Hogwarts as part of the same City of Wizards path, with the story using these locations as key plot points.
• Enjoy how the tour, outdoor escape game, treasure hunt mix turns these stops into interactive scenes, accessed solely through your game in the Questo app.

Hidden streets and lesser-known places

Beyond the headline landmarks, the experience leads you through additional corners of Edinburgh that fit the wizarding theme.

Features

• Explore lesser-known places that appear between Edinburgh Castle, Greyfriars Bobby Statue, and City Chambers, guided only by the in-app instructions.
• Use your game access in the Questo app to uncover each spot, with outdoor escape game and treasure hunt elements prompting you to look closely at your surroundings.
• Benefit from playing this self-guided city exploration game at any time after booking, supported by 24/7 customer support if you run into issues with the route or app.

Wrapping up

Once you complete the final puzzle, you simply close the Questo app or continue exploring Edinburgh on your own from the last stop, without any fixed end time or required check-out.