Breekity: Past the Facade

Two real buildings, side by side (and the older one is not always the one that looks it). Read the roofline, the windows, the brick and the street, then tap the older one. A Gothic Revival church can look six centuries older than it is, and a plain house can have stood longer than the palace beside it.

Breekity is free, and it is for anyone who looks up when they walk through a city, and for anyone who likes history quizzes and picture puzzles. No account, no ads. You compare buildings, guess their years, or play a friend.

THE DAILY

Five pairs a day, the same five for everyone. The gap between the two buildings closes from one pair to the next, from more than a century apart down to about twenty years. Every pair counts, and a miss costs only its square. Keep a daily streak, share your squares without giving the buildings away, and send a friend a link to beat your day.

GUESS THE OLDER

Ten pairs to a run, and the gap between them closes every round, so the last pairs are decades apart where the first were centuries. Miss one and the run ends there. Your result is how sharp your eye is: "you can tell apart buildings 30 years apart." The medieval churches and castles are dealt here too. Also the practice pairs are endless and free.

GUESS THE YEAR

Five buildings, photographed where they stand, from 1500 to today. Guess on the slider the year each one was built, and the true year lands on the timeline, your years off tumble up, and the reveal tells you what the building is and where it stands. Then five more, as many times as you like.

ONLINE DUEL

Play a friend by code, or take the next player waiting. You compare the same buildings on both phones and the fastest right answer takes the round. Or choose the year game, where the closer guess wins. Every match earns XP.

10817 buildings from 1500 to 2025, photographed by the volunteers of Wikimedia Commons and dated by Wikidata. 400 dailies already dealt.

MORE GAME, IF YOU WANT IT

The daily, Guess the older, Guess the year, the practice pairs and the duel are free, forever, and so are the last 7 dailies in the archive. One purchase unlocks every earlier daily and every themed pack, now and later:
• Doorsteps
• The Revivals
• Skyline
• Castles & Palaces

Or take the packs one at a time.

This is a game for people who read cities, a history quiz + an architecture lesson played on photographs. Every photograph is credited to its photographer and its licence on the credits page, and nothing in a picture was changed except its size.