The Oregon Trail
The Oregon Trail is back in a beautiful blend of charming pixel art characters, 3D environments, and cutting-edge lighting and visual effects!
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November 14, 2022
3 years and 261 days ago
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Mostly Positive1,261 reviews79.2%
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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.
