The Oregon Trail
Gameloft · 2022 · Adventure, Pixel Graphics, Historical, Choose Your Own Adventure, Action-Adventure
PC
Mostly Positive79% · 1,170
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About The Oregon Trail
Experience The Oregon Trail™ like never before!
A modern reimagining of the road to Oregon, this official successor to the iconic classic will fully immerse you in epic journeys ranging from the historically accurate to the totally extreme. Surviving blizzards, broken limbs, snakebites, exhaustion, starvation, and the dreaded dysentery is no small feat; all the while navigating an untamed frontier to get your party to their new life in Oregon before the winter.Always a New Adventure
- Build and name your party from different classes—each with their own starting items, skills, and personalities—to make every journey to Oregon unique.
- Overcome hundreds of random events where your choices affect the fate of your travelers, and are influenced by their unique skills and traits.
- Remember to take care of your party, wagon, and oxen, or they’ll become casualties of the trail.
Fresh Features
- Take on 15 playable Journeys.
- Experience 7 Quests inspired by historical events.
- Monitor your party members’ health, morale, stamina and hygiene.
- Manage your inventory to squeeze everything you can into the wagon.
- Maintain your wagon to prevent breakdowns and inventory loss from spoiling or spillage.
- Learn about real people and places in your interactive Journal.
- Collect and learn about the many interesting animals you’ll see on the trail.
- Catch 80+ species in the new Fishing mini-game.
- Obtain 140+ achievements.
True to the Original
- Hunting and Rafting make a long-awaited return, with faithful gameplay and all-new visuals.
- Dysentery, river fording, broken legs, and many more classic hazards await!
Striking Art Direction and Score
- A beautiful blend of charming pixel art characters, 3D environments and cutting-edge lighting and visual effects creates a unique visual style that’s both nostalgic and contemporary.
- An all-original soundtrack of alt-country-inspired music combined with 8-bit-style sound effects.
Respectful Representation
- For the first time, the game features Native American playable characters and stories, celebrating the history and cultures of the peoples who first lived on this land and still live here today.
- Thorough research and multiple academic consultants were involved in this game’s production to ensure accuracy and respectful representation of all peoples depicted in the game.
Officially Licensed & Supported
- The Oregon Trail™ is an officially licensed game from HarperCollins Productions, who supported the evolution of The Oregon Trail™ so it would be true to the original, but with updated gameplay and visuals.
- 2016 Video Game Hall of Fame inductee.
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What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
[i]“This land belonged to the native nations long before any of us arrived, and every stone, river, and canyon still whispers their names. You can bury history under concrete, but you cannot silence it. The land keeps its own ledger.”[/i] [hr][/hr] I’ve always wanted to play The Oregon Trail. Generations of Americans have sworn blind it’s the hardest game ever made — a rite of passage, a childhood trauma, a dysentery‑flavoured badge of honour. And maybe that was true once. But this updated version? It’s not the child‑killing spreadsheet of legend. It’s actually… endearing. The UI is clean. The characters feel alive. You get proper freedom in how you build your little wagon crew health management, survival skills, and even a mechanic I can only describe as “stop being a miserable bastard”. It’s simple, but it’s warm. It’s got that frontier charm without the frontier cruelty. [hr][/hr] I’ve always loved reading stories from the old trails, but I’ll be honest: I was never the kid cheering for the cowboys. I was the one scalping them in the schoolyard re-enactments, doing a war cry loud enough to get told off by a dinner lady. So stepping into a game that actually acknowledges the lan…1 found this helpful
I bought this on sale for the lulz and I'm honestly surprised at how fun & addicting it is. Every time I complete a journey I want to start the next one right away so I can apply what I learned on my last trip!1 found this helpful
fantastic game i loved with every iteration from my childhood, and wonderfully updates the mechanics and indigenous representation for the modern area in a lovely pixel art style, relaxing music and with good humor. easy to play, hard to master, and satisfying to achievement hunt <31 found this helpful
It is so interesting to me to see the harshness of this life and amazing how strong and determined these pioneers were. Though not all of them remained steadfast in the goal the fact that they were brave enough to try it amazes me. The game engages you in the daily drudgery of the journey and all of the frightening situations you must face and the making of decisions that often risk the life of not only the leaders, but of those who are with you. There are many pleasant encounters with people and wild life.
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It's a throwback to the nostalgia of one of the very first computer games that kids fell in love with... with some updated graphics and details that makes is a real joy to play.
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