Funny coincidence, what with Costner's Horizon releasing almost simultanously.

Having just seen the film probably makes me more interested in this game, but I like westerns in general, and I'm curious to have some experience of the legendary classic I never played. The graphis look, for the most part, quite nice too.

However, I do have some misgivings. I don't like how the interface looks. It doesn't work with the rest of the art, or the setting at all. It looks like something from the Matrix. It's so artifical and computer-y. Could they really not have made it look like wood and paper and the stereotypical "western font"? The "non-violent" tag confuses me a bit. How do you make a non violent game about the settling of the wild west? But then, the tags are naturally worthless. How is this a "good old game"? It's a brand new remake! Finally, the price seems to me a bit steep.

One can cook for cowboys and help the donnor party in the DLC apparently. I think I see where this is going. If only we could see some of the original games here. They were already deceased when I started cooking!

Now if a remake of Organ Trail was a thing....nah I still wouldnt spend twenty bucks...but I would tip my hat for a fond memory on an old craptastic tablet.

I think my brother has this on his phone. Is this a mobile port or something?

Anyway, I have fond memories of playing Oregon Trail on the old computers in the library when I was a kid. Since it is very easy to play the original online for free, I will be passing on this remake or spiritual successor or whatever you want to call it.

I thought Oregon Trail is some old Sierra Online adventure game or something, but maybe I was thinking about "Where The Hell Is Carmen San Diego?".

Checking Mobygames.com, apparently there is a whole series of "Oregon Trail"-games, many many games spanning from 1971 to 2021. Odd that the name rings a bell, but the game does not...

https://www.mobygames.com/group/283/oregon-trail-series/sort:date]https://www.mobygames.com/group/283/oregon-trail-series/

Wishlisted, just in case this game is any good. You never know! Well, that is not true actually, occasionally you may know.

Sierra warrants a mention of Gold Rush!

It's much more of an American thing, as the original was made by an educational publisher and was usually played in schools. There's a lot of nostalgia out there for it. Personally, I would rather have the older, official versions of the game rather than this tribute act, as it appears.

Let's hope GOG doesn't die of dysentery....

Nice to see this here. It would have been nice if they included the original and / or make it so you could switch between versions...looking forward to playing it!

Of all of the ports of Oregon Trail, this is perhaps the ugliest.

My mother has already had someone dye of dysentery.

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GOG people: Please put release dates on store pages for released games! (Correct ones, if you please.) This omission has been happening too often lately. The version(s?) of The Oregon Trail video game which I've played were not about the "Wild West", settling or otherwise. The original games were more or less edutainment titles (this seems to apply to this remake, as well). By design, these are not games about dusty desert boom towns, train/bank/stagecoach robberies, desperado gangs and bounty hunters, murder and revenge, or any of the other common Western genre tropes.
The early years of the actual Oregon Trail (the early 1840s) were a solid 15 years before the beginning of the period in which most Wild West stories take place. At that time, the vast majority of the interior of the Western U.S. was inhabited only by indigenous peoples (so, no train or stagecoach lines, no (white) towns, farms/ranches or mines, no cowboys herding cattle, and very few bandits [because what or who would they rob?]). Unless you're counting hunting or being attacked by wild animals, the only violence which a trans-continental wagon caravan of settlers was likely to encounter would be attacks from natives trying to ward off incursions into their territories, or intra-party disagreements turned sour -- and I don't remember whether either of those latter two possibilities was represented in the earlier games. (The original primary audience was schoolchildren, remember.)

You'll notice that the DLC for this game (groan) is set in 1867, which is within the early years of what tends to get classed as the Wild West period. Even there, though, it doesn't look to be focused on violence (and it would be weird if it was, given the intent and presumed target audience of the base game).