Load the wagon, pick your pace, and pray the river is kind. Six colors, square-wave beeps, and dysentery — just like the computer lab in 1985.
It is 1848. You have one wagon, five hopeful souls, and 2,040 miles of prairie, mountains, and rivers that would very much like to tip you over. Go west. Try not to die.
(Yes, like the spice. This trail is well-seasoned.)
THE OREGANO TRAIL is a loving throwback to the computer-lab classics of the early 1980s — the games you played on a humming beige machine while your teacher thought you were learning. Six-color pixel art, a chunky terminal font, square-wave beeps synthesized the old way, and gentle scanlines. No remaster gloss. The real look, on your phone.
YOUR CALLS, YOUR FUNERAL
• Pick your profession — the banker rides easy, the farmer earns triple the glory
• Outfit your wagon at the general store: oxen, food, clothing, ammunition, spare parts
• Set the pace and the rations — push too hard and the trail pushes back
• Ford the river, caulk and float, or pay the ferryman — choose wrong and pay dearly
THE TRAIL FIGHTS FAIR (BUT IT FIGHTS)
• Disease, snakebites, blizzards, hail, thieves, and broken axles — every setback is real and every one can be survived with the right supplies
• Warm clothing matters when the blizzard hits. Spare parts matter when the wheel goes. Skimp at the store and you'll feel it on the trail
• Mountains and forests slow the wagon. Plan around the terrain or fall behind the season
SHOOT STRAIGHT OR STARVE
• Hunt bison, deer, and rabbits in the sparse pixel woods
• Ammo is money and money is scarce — every shot counts
THE TRAIL PASS (ONE-TIME, OPTIONAL)
• Seasons: choose your start month and race the snow. Leave too early and the grass is thin; leave too late and December closes the passes
• Trading: barter with travelers on the trail and haggle at the forts
• The Hard Road: 1848 scoring by every survivor's health, steeper prices, and no early-trail mercy
DIE HISTORICALLY
• Succumb to dysentery like your ancestors intended
• Every run ends on the trail or in the Willamette Valley — chase your best score in your Trail Records (kept on your phone)
• Game Center, if you use it: thirteen achievements and two leaderboards. Optional, and the game never asks
• Share your gravestone. It's what they would have wanted.
HONEST RETRO
• Plays 100% offline — in a tunnel, on a plane, or in a covered wagon
• No ads, no accounts, no subscriptions. The full trail is free; the Trail Pass is a one-time extra for people who want it harder
• Anonymous play statistics help tune the trail — switch them off any time in Settings
• Auto-saves your journey; quit and pick up the trail later
No two runs end the same. Fresh dangers, fresh graves — reach the valley if you can.
This is just like the original, but it is missing sections. I played this game for 3 minutes and finished a run through. I really hope there is still more to come!Updated: thank you Mike for your prompt response! I’m excited to hear that there is in fact more to come and the game is in development.
Developer Response
We have a ton more in game play coming in the next release which should be out over the next few days. Thanks for playing!
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chatwhatshouldbemynickname
this game is AMAZING! but will there ever be a newer/longer version? i like how it works like old style without showing people, but can we add some like more action because i want to have a newly generated content. Because i know like all the lines, (exept trading) . Just add more action thats it. (ps i got trail pass) OK SO THATS IT AMAZING GAME JUST ADD MORE ACTION! 😃
Developer Response
Thank you, and thanks for picking up the Trail Pass! More trail is on the way. Our next update is waiting on Apple's review right now. It adds the Daily Trail: a new trail every day, with its own weather, rivers, and strangers on the road, plus a streak to keep alive. It also brings Game Center, with thirteen achievements and two leaderboards. Pass holders recently got two dozen new trades and new season events too, so keep an eye out for those. We'll keep adding more.
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Morgon in Oregon
As an og Oregon Trail top ten scorer, this game fell well short of my standards. It was nothing like my experience on the trail, and my people kept dying with no dysentery. I completed the quest in less than two minutes, a time that gives no justice to the many months our ancestors foraged and risked their lives for a new beginning. Oregano Trail has dishonored their legacy and I will not tolerate another minute (which would’ve gotten me halfway). I am EXTREMELY disappointed and have spent more time writing this than I did completing the game.
Developer Response
Sorry for your loss.
So much potential, so incomplete
dfg8976
They’ve got the UI and gameplay down pretty much perfect, but it plays only a single chapter of the original from the plains. Where’s the rest of the game? I have to assume this is either a demo or still under development.
Developer Response
Thanks for the feedback. Still working on the game but I will add more in for sure!
Game Center is on the trail: thirteen achievements and two leaderboards, best score and the Hard Road, for anyone signed in. Not signed in? Nothing changes and the game never asks. Reduce Motion is respected, low supplies now say so in words, and every wagon gets the whole free trail from the first launch: the gentler Greenhorn Trail, fourteen decisions on the road, and rest as long as you like at any stop.
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Seller
Mike Watson
Size
31.8 MB
Category
Strategy
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.1 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.1 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
