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The Oregon Trail

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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!

Adventure Pixel Graphics Historical Choose Your Own Adventure Action-Adventure
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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.

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The Oregon Trail™ Digital Deluxe bundle is out now Discover the Explorers Collection: The Oregon Trail & Carmen Sandiego Bundle The Oregon Trail — Verified on Steam Deck
System requirements Windows

Windows

Minimum

Minimum:
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 10
  • Processor: Quad Core Processor
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA Geforce GTX 660
  • DirectX: Version 12
  • Storage: 1500 MB available space
  • Sound Card: DirectX Compatible

Recommended

Recommended:
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 10
  • Processor: Octa Core Processor
  • Memory: 16 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
  • DirectX: Version 12
  • Storage: 1500 MB available space
  • Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
Game details Languages, features & support
Publisher
Gameloft
Brazilian rating
12
Steam Germany rating
12
Achievements
83
Controller support
full
Features
Single-player, Steam Achievements, Full controller support, DualShock Controller Support, DualShock Controller Support, DualSense Controller Support, DualSense Controller Support, Family Sharing
Languages
English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Dutch, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Turkish
Compatibility & accessibility Steam Deck, controllers & access features

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Input
Controller support: unknown
Structured language support (14)
LanguageInterfaceFull audioSubtitles
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ArabicYesNoNo
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Traditional ChineseYesNoNo
TurkishYesNoNo
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Frequently Asked Questions

Is The Oregon Trail worth buying right now?
Wait — $29.99. Wait for upcoming sale in ~12 days for potentially better pricing.
When does The Oregon Trail go on sale?
Wait for upcoming sale in ~12 days for potentially better pricing.
Is The Oregon Trail free to play?
The Oregon Trail costs $29.99 on Steam.
What genre is The Oregon Trail?
The Oregon Trail is a Adventure, Casual, Simulation, Strategy game.
Who developed The Oregon Trail?
The Oregon Trail was developed by Gameloft and published by Gameloft.
What platforms does The Oregon Trail support?
Available on Steam for Windows.

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