08/19/2026 - Get ready for the Reviewer expansion!
Hi geocachers!
Mark the date: on Friday, August 28 at 8:30 PM (Paris time), geocoins.io gets its very first expansion, named Reviewer.
200 new geocoins, four new achievements, and two features landing the same evening: a shop that lets you help fund the game, and the weekly and monthly leaderboards. It's the biggest wave since the game opened, and it arrives all at once. Until then nothing changes in your collection: the Reviewer geocoins don't exist yet and nobody can get a head start.
The rest of this note is everything that has landed since the previous one: an achievement multiplier, new public pages, a few rebalances and a long list of fixes.
Enjoy the read, and happy hunting!
The Reviewer expansion - Friday, August 28, 8:30 PM
200 geocoins are released in one go at opening time: Paris 8:30 PM · London 7:30 PM · New York 2:30 PM · Seattle 11:30 AM.
Every geocoin will carry an expansion label, in your collection as well as on its public page. Today's geocoins stay attached to the base game.
Until release, one poster a day introduces an expansion geocoin when you log in. It becomes clickable and opens the geocoin's page.
Training mode stays on the base game: it only draws common geocoins from the base game, expansions excluded.
What's new
1. The achievement multiplier
Until now, an evolving achievement stopped dead at the legendary tier: the counter kept climbing, but it no longer earned anything. Someone tripling the threshold was rewarded like someone who had just crossed it.
Every new crossing of the legendary threshold raises a multiplier, shown by a golden xN badge at the top of the geocoin, in the collection grid.
Each repeat carries the weight of a legendary geocoin in your score. An "Achievement multiplier" line announces it in the score breakdown, on your own profile as well as on other players' profiles.
No achievement geocoin is handed out twice: the reward for a multiplier is the leaderboard points, up to x10.
2. A new old achievement: Collector
This achievement evolves with your base game collection (expansion and achievement-type geocoins excluded). The oldest among you will recognise the comeback of an achievement that had disappeared without ever being put back in play — now fixed!
3. Your collection sorted by time
A new "Recent" sort: your geocoins are grouped by when they joined your collection.
A "New" badge marks the latest arrivals - and it is shared across your devices: dismissed on your phone, it won't come back on your computer.
A season label appears on seasonal geocoins.
4. New public pages
A geocoin gallery: every geocoin has its public page, with the geocache it honours, its long description and its release date. The gallery also shows geocoins that are announced but not released yet: a card back, its title, its release date and its expansion. Enough to watch the Reviewer wave coming without revealing anything that makes a geocoin valuable.
A Game rules page, whose figures automatically follow the real settings. It keeps you posted on the latest changes to the game as they happen, without waiting for the release note.
An FAQ of 82 questions, sorted by topic.
5. A banner to paste on your geocaching.com listing
If one of your caches is honoured by a geocoin in the game, you can get an illustrated banner ready to paste into your cache description on geocaching.com - two messages, two formats, in your language.
6. Newsletter
The game can now send you information e-mails (releases, events, big changes). It is switchable from your account, and every e-mail carries a one-click unsubscribe link. Important e-mails are not affected: sign-up, password.
7. Shiny Day gets an explainer window
The Shiny Day banner is now clickable in full and opens a card: what a shiny geocoin is, what the event is, the kick-off in four time zones, and three reminders (high rate all day long, Training excluded, daily cap still applies). The countdown was several hours off for players outside France: it is fixed.
So many of you took part in the last Shiny Day on August 18, 2026 — thank you for making that day exceptional!
Rebalancing
Legendary thresholds lowered on five evolving achievements:
Smelter 4,000 → 2,500,
On Fire! 1,000 → 800,
For Glory 10,000 → 6,000,
Let's Train! 5,000 → 2,500,
Dazzling → 190 (the legendary threshold didn't exist yet).
Counters have been recalculated for everyone: some of you will find a new tier, or even a ×2, on your next login.
Two geocoins leave the quiz for the forge: "there and back again" and
"the missing piece" The geocaches they honour have been archived: the forge is their natural home, as it is for the other tributes to caches that are gone. They can no longer be won in a round, but they remain obtainable with forge points.
Training: the draw only takes common geocoins from the base game (not the expansion), and those geocoins no longer count towards your daily caps.
Hold deposit: your weekly caps are consumed when you collect the geocoin, not when you deposit it. A deposited geocoin is therefore no longer "lost" if the cap falls in the meantime.
Hold deposit and shininess: being shiny no longer makes a duplicate depositable. Epics and legendaries remain depositable, along with any variant you don't own yet. A common or rare shiny duplicate therefore goes to glory, without losing any forge points, since glory follows the per-rarity scale.
Consolation forge points: a single shared per-rarity scale for glory and for the deposit: 1 (common), 2 (rare), 3 (epic), 10 (legendary). Previously, giving up an epic paid less than a glory on a rare.
Patronage: legendaries from the latest expansion will not be eligible for Patronage.
Seasons: seasonal geocoins are now all non-sellable on the market.
Question draw: a new rotation avoids seeing the same questions several times in a row within a short window. New questions are now released gradually, as a Legendary geocoin comes up, instead of all at once.
Nicknames : the delay between two nickname changes goes from 30 to 15 days. Your previous nickname stays visible for 14 days above your rank, on your public profile
Fixes
Quiz and quests
The hold deposit promised "one forge point" while the server credits more on the higher rarities. It now announces the real amount, and the patronage dialog does the same — a gift also updates the achievement's progress straight away, instead of waiting for the next question.
The "too many attempts" penalty threw away the answer you had already typed: it is now kept and sent again.
On-fire streak sometimes miscalculated.
"USA" is accepted when the expected answer is "United States".
Country geocoins: several names were still in French in the other languages, and the territories that geocaching.com lists separately are now treated as such.
Display
Blank purple screen when tapping the answer field, and a countdown showing "19 years, 18 years, 17 years": it was the browser's automatic translation rewriting the page under the game's feet — bug found by Denfire. The game now refuses that rewriting (it is already translated into four languages by its own selector), and an error screen names the failure instead of leaving a void.
The hold deposit promised "one forge point" while the server credits more on the higher rarities. It now announces the real amount, and the patronage dialog does the same — a gift also updates the achievement's progress straight away, instead of waiting for the next question.
Hold deposit: the "Replace" button stayed inert on iPhone.
Stray zoom on mobile when the on-fire announcement replaces the Join button.
Market: listings showed geocoin names in French for everyone, whatever the game's language.
Several screens were still hard-coded in French, and Spanish had lost the deposit replacement price.
Account and e-mails
Sign-up and forgotten-password e-mails: the action button was invisible in several mail clients (white text on a white background). You had to find the fallback link at the bottom of the message to confirm your address.
The maintenance screen only showed for players already connected when it was switched on: a page reload went straight through.
Nickname change: the waiting period and the verified geocaching profile lock could be bypassed. Everything now goes through the server.
Collection, market and leaderboard
Score and geocoin count that didn't go up after a forge, a claimed deposit, a daily treasure, a patronage gift or the welcome geocoins.
A threshold change on an already published achievement woke nothing up. Everything is now recalculated immediately, which is what makes the new thresholds effective for everyone today.
See you on August 28 at 8:30 PM for the opening of the Reviewer expansion. A huge thank you to everyone who reports the game's bugs🙏. 💚 See you on Discord for what's next.
