The Oregon Trail: Boom Town 12+

Fun but Super Glitchy and things that don’t make sense

Very fun game being able to build your town. A lot of tasks that allow you to stack money and resources. Fun graphics, events and themes. It’s honestly the game I play the most. However, it’s super glitchy. Errors loading or connecting. Some weekly events I’ve won I never received the award. There needs to be a better balance of supplies you get from shipments. More supplies to unlock land and less to build buildings. The ratio just doesn’t make sense when the ability to build a building is few and far between, dependent on your level. Also, it doesn’t make sense that sometimes a shipment or wagon is needing a supply that you don’t even have a building with which to make it. Like a shipment asks for a flower. Well I have to have a flower shop. But I can’t build one because I’m not at the level to even build it? Even an event where you have to harvest crops for points. The time you have to harvest is 4 hours, but the crops they ask you to make to harvest takes 7+ hours lol. So when you harvest you won’t even be able to get the points…. Just frustrating and needs to be thought through better.

Fun but super glitchy

Update: the game was glitching too bad and someone in my crew said to delete and readd. Well I did that and the game didn’t recognize me and started over. I tried to get my profile back and the support said they couldn’t find it. I had my name of my town and my iOS number and they still said they couldn’t find it. That’s so disappointing because I didn’t delete my profile and the only reason I deleted the app is because the game was glitching so bad. I completely deleted the game because it’s not worth it to start over with all the problems the game has.

There are so many activities in the game, but sometimes the glitches are annoying! I have planted things that take many hours to grow. I’ll come back and forth into and out of the game. Finally my plant growth time has passed and the plants will have disappeared. It will look like I didn’t plant a full field of something. There will be tons of empty spaces. Same with feeding animals to collect stuff. I’m looking and all my animals are eating but it takes a long time to produce my product. At the end of the hour, it will look like I only fed 1 animal in that stable and I will have to start over waiting for them to eat and produce my product. It’s super annoying. Please fix and this game could get 5 stars. Also, don’t be so stingy with the boats. We need so many materials and you give us so little. I understand you want us to pay but it gets annoying having that and the glitches too.

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Weird pacing and disappearing cash?

This game was super fun in the beginning. But as I played, things got frustrating… fast. First there’s the pacing. Super weird. It feels like I’m leveling up too fast because I’m being asked for things that will take me days to acquire on my own. I have so many wagons (the main coin makers) just sitting there with things that I feel like I’m days away from getting. You need coins and materials to make buildings to get the materials the wagons are asking for you for. How can I buy things when I’m locked away from the main coin maker? And once you have the coins, you usually don’t have enough materials (which you get from entirely luck based 4-6 hour steamboat trips). So the pacing just feels… off to me. Second, your cash will disappear. At first it was just 5 or 6 at a time, nothing tooo bad tbh. But then I lost all 76 in one go. Frustrating, right (this was my work around for the steamboat materials)? I managed to start building it back up only to lose all 30 or so AGAIN. This isn’t just me either, 3 other people in my guild have reported the same issue. So now I feel like I have to spend it as soon as I get it or lose it. I honestly wouldn’t spend real money on this game because the amount of glitches is truly astonishing for a released game.
TLDR: Your main money maker is nearly impossible to complete in a timely manner because of pacing issues and your cash will disappear. Don’t spend real money on this game.

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