WAGON
WAGON is a 1-bit card game where you make tough decisions to try and survive winter on the Oregon Trail.
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Winter 1845 - As the Wagon Leader you were supposed to get everyone to Oregon City already. But the air is getting colder and your party has run out of food and hope.
You find yourself in the back of your wagon, alone and starving. Losing grip on your sanity it's unclear how many moons have passed or how you are even still alive, but you must eat. As you commune with the spirit world in a last ditch effort to survive, you are offered a way out... if you play along.
Key Features
Collect and craft cards as your party attempts to reach Oregon City
Survive a series of increasingly difficult trail camp locations where you must build shelter and find food
Manage temperature, hunger, sickness, repairs, and more
Choose from 12 different 1-bit color palettes
Launch Roadmap
Forts on the trail where you can rest, trade, and repair
Multiple maps to give the true scale of the Oregon Trail
River crossings
Trail Calendar + Party must now eat on the Oregon Trail map
Humans can equip cards that give bonuses (coat, gloves, amulet, etc)
Entities that show up in the WAGON and offer you assistance
New occult tech tree
Expand your cardgame playing area with portals to new Planes
Improved shader
Explorable starting area
Revamped Encounter System
More cards / recipes
Steam achievements / Cloud Save
More puzzles and secrets
More level biomes
Last level
