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Beautiful blend of charming pixel art characters, 3D environments, and cutting-edge lighting and visual effects? That’s The Oregon Trail, launching now with a -40% discount until July 14th, 7 AM UTC!

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.

You can also get The Oregon Trail — Cowboys and Critters DLC.

Now on GOG!
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Breja: [...] The "non-violent" tag confuses me a bit. How do you make a non violent game about the settling of the wild west? [...]
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HunchBluntley: 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).
I guess I shouldn't have said "wild west", because I didn't mean the tropes of the genre (desperados etc.), I just meant "the west" as in the territory. As for the violence, I mostly meant settlers vs natives. But I guess I may well have been mislead by the overall tragic and violent history of what happened to American Indians, and the history of the Oregon Trail itself was more peaceful.

Still, as JacobSlatter pointed out, it is a bit funny to have that same "non-violent" tag applied to the DLC that features the pioneers infamous for murdering and eating people, even if the game presumably lets you "help them" in some other way :D
Post edited July 05, 2024 by Breja
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kai2: ... I'm not a big fan of the art style (I always hoped the series would become more "realistic" instead of more cartoony / abstract) and hoped the entire project had been geared more toward adults who played the Oregon Trail games as children, but... looks like it's pretty close to what came before and won't be a "Wagon Train Dynasty." ;)
If you want more realism, the second original oregon trail game has some nice FMV cutscenes with live actors.
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A documentary on the creation of the original Oregon Trail for those interested.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QbjlHeoLdc
Looks nice, so I’ll wishlist it for now, but would still like to see the original version release here at some point.
I never had the pleasure of playing the original, so of course I'd love to see that one release here. But I'm digging this one too. Thanks so much for the release!
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GOG.com: Beautiful blend of charming pixel art characters, 3D environments, and cutting-edge lighting and visual effects? That’s The Oregon Trail, launching now with a -40% discount until July 14th, 7 AM UTC!

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.

You can also get aznameify.

Now on GOG!
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TheBigCore: Let's hope GOG doesn't die of dysentery....
"The Oregon Trail," a classic game that has entertained generations, now offers a fresh experience with new downloadable content (DLC). This DLC expands the original game's narrative, adding new challenges and adventures that reflect the diverse experiences of those who journeyed westward.
Remake of Oregon trail with optional meaningful DLC, both for a reasonable price?
Count me in - instabuy :)
Looks like a cool remake, the lack of the original is a little odd though.