The Oregano Trail
Go west. Try not to die.
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
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.
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
DIE HISTORICALLY
• Succumb to dysentery like your ancestors intended
• Every run ends on the trail or in the Willamette Valley — chase your best score on the Oregano Top Ten
• Share your gravestone. It's what they would have wanted.
HONEST RETRO
• 100% offline — play in a tunnel, on a plane, or in a covered wagon
• No ads, no accounts, no tracking, nothing to buy
• 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.
- The whole trail, not just the plains — your wagon now stops at all 16 landmarks, from Chimney Rock to the Blue Mountains, with a route tracker showing how far Oregon really is
- Professions matter — carpenters repair wagon breakdowns, farmers dress +25% meat from every kill; pick EASY, MEDIUM, or HARD
- Hunting takes real aim — smaller targets, faster animals, and a muzzle-loader that needs reloading; gunfire spooks the survivors
- Starvation kills now — an empty wagon means dead pioneers in weeks, even in camp; hunt or perish
- Classic mode — an optional longer journey with slower miles per turn, in Settings
- Rivers got honest — no more waiting out a guaranteed safe crossing, and fort prices now climb the farther west you go (Fort Hall's smithy is the exception)
- Share your fate — tombstone and victory cards now name your route and carry a download link
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Information
- Seller
- Mike Watson
- Size
- 28.2 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. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
9+
- 9+
- Infrequent
Guns or Other Weapons
- Copyright
- © 2026 Mike Watson