The Oregon Trail is Back, Sort Of
If you’re like me, you enjoy a good resource management/strategy game every once in a while. If you’re REALLY like me, these were your favorite games growing up. Now, I wasn’t quite old enough to grow up with the first release version (or the 2nd, 3rd, 4th… just the 5th), but I did grow up to really appreciate the concept of the game overall from a very young age.
Over the past few years we’ve seen some interesting releases, but none that could scratch that itch for a properly updated version. There’s mainly been knockoff releases on various platforms, and then some OK reskinned games (The Organ Trail comes to mind), but I know that I predominantly survived off of flash player versions of the original (RIP Adobe Flash) as well as Gameloft’s 2009 mobile version. Despite the game being pretty easy to master, the casual yet laid-back energy makes me almost ignore the fact that after almost 10 years I still get absolutely clapped while playing FTL: Faster Than Light.
The music, design, and visuals of The Oregon Trail almost make me wish that I was an illiterate Irish migrant looking to make his way in the American frontier of the mid-1800s. Luckily, I’m not an illiterate Irish migrant in the mid-1800s and instead that was just my 3rd great-grandfather from Galway who struggled through the great famine, dysentery, cholera, and anti-catholic nationalists just so I…
