The Oregon Trail

Got challenged by someone on the trail to shoot some targets. Instead of an actual mini-game where you get to shoot some targets, you instead click dialog boxes that say either "hit" or "miss". Do not buy this game.

they bloated this game with a bunch of stuff it didnt need and doesnt really improve things.

I've a very mixed opinion on the game and i think most of the enjoyment I get from it has to due with the fact I grew up playing the 3 oregon trail pc games. Nostolgia is doing some heavy lifting for me here. The primary issue for this version is PACING!!! It takes like 2 minute cutscenes for EVERY place you enter and there are probably somewhere between 30-60 of them in the game... It took me 6 HOURS to finish my first game!!! It feels like 3 of that was just watching them walk into the next event... I et that they are trying to instill the sense of the arduous journey the people dealt with but their execution for it utterly failed imo... I will likely still play to test out other premade journeys but it's almost like a form of self torture just cause i miss the old games... There are also things that weren't well thought out from the menu side of things. Things like crafting bait can only be done BEFORE fishing and you can't do it after, but it requires fish to craft... and it's really easy to end up eating or selling all your fish before the next pond because there is no way to control what rations your people eat. It'd just have been really thoughtful if after you fish you could make some too. There is also some VERY weird pacing on events. Like I was leaving a major city, took like 3 steps out of it and had 3 different major bad events in succession one right after another: gunshot wound, dead ox, broken leg.... with the city still very much on the screen even for the last one. And more of a nitpick than anything, but it gets really freaking annoying that every single time you log in you have to see their heavy handed virtue signaling about how very thoughtful and considerate they are to the native american side of the story... It's ridiculously woke and over the top and if they HAD to have one it should have just been one when you first install and boot up the game, not an every time you start it up thing. It just comes off as a desperate "look at how virtuous and thoughtful we are"

Not worth the $10 I paid. Playing on pc, I feel like I might've been impressed if I had paid $5 to play this on an iPhone4 15 years ago. Text encounters don't cut it as a PC game in 2026. Even though the art is pretty, there basically aren't animations beyond the absolute basics. Also the rules are too arbitrary. Buy several sets of single-use clothes, because you either throw out old clothes or get sick. Harmonica will improve morale, but it is a single-use item. Childish, unrealistic and politically correct to the point of being painful. Might be useful to help small children learn history, develop reading skills and learn about danger and death. Not entertaining for this veteran gamer.

I finished a run and the game said that I didn't. I didn't quit out of the game early, I saw the game reward me for completion of the run before it sent me back to the main menu and wiped 3 hours from my run. Game is ultimately very boring and samey, takes far too long to complete a run even if you're ignoring a lot of the events due to said bordem.

Congrats guys, with all that technology, extra education and skills you have, you managed to make a game even worse than the original, made decades ago. If i wanted to be brainwashed about race, gender and sterotypes id go watch a disney movie, dont put it in my games.

Great homage to the classic. Adds to without taking away, the increased complexity is engaging and not distracting or annoying at all. Great job all around!

The Oregon Trail, as it has always been, is a game of absolute misery.

Four hours in and I can't finish a play through. So much wasted time with travel cut-scenes of nothingness when entering a town or fort. We've been watching the screen move by with our people and little wagon. We don't need to watch another 2 minutes of it with each check point. Worse are the unforgiving screen clicks. I can't tell you how many times (actually I can... it was 4) I've tried to collect an animal sighting and dumped all my food. Innocently click a badger and a pop up jumps up that your wagon broke and you're going to "lose your food or you could repack" and the GIGANTIC discard button is right where I'm clicking for the animal and that ends the run. No, pause or confirmation. Just 200 lbs of food on the ground. Saves don't work properly. Made it to a town. Hit save. Reloaded a couple hours later to be 2 hours back. Inventory system needs a little help too. When you are buying things in the store or trading, there's no hint as to what you have versus what you need. You have to commit it all to memory. In the store, it will tell you you have 1 item in the wagon even if you have 10. There's a ton of conversations with NPCs that are simply bloat. I don't care for some of the events like mystery solving. You can skip these things but the boons you might get are intriguing though the events bog down the progress. I'm not sure they're worth exploring. Finally, when you turn the game on, you get this screed about "first nation people" and how basically you are playing the part of the villain as part of the "invasion" of their lands. Gag-worthy virtue signaling crap. How dare you play as the genociders of the true people of earth... The hunting is fun and they added fishing too. The characters are cute though I've twice now had the option of having a white female character name America with some pretty ugly traits which is suspicious because they're supposed to be randomly generated.

Very fun and has some elements true to the older games!