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The Oregon Trail is back in a beautiful blend of charming pixel art characters, 3D environments, and cutting-edge lighting and visual effects!

The Oregon Trail is a adventure, pixel graphics and historical game developed and published by Gameloft.
Released on November 14th 2022 is available on Windows, Steam Deck and Steam Machine.

It has received 965 reviews of which 781 were positive and 184 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.7 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 19.99€ on Eneba.


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Windows
  • 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

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6 hours played
July 2026
I LOVE the old school Oregon Trail. I even have a version bookmarked that you can play in a browser and I played through it win or lose about every 3 months or so for the past several years. I honestly, I saw this and expected to hate it. So I didn't buy it. I waited. And waited. This summer (2026), I picked it up in the Summer Sale thinking "I'll play it immediately, and if I hate it, I'll refund it". I started with the tutorial and I hated it. I went to go refund it, but at the last page, I thought to myself, may as well play a bit longer to see if it is any better since I have up to 2 hours before I have issues refunding. So this time, I skipped the tutorial and, well, the tutorial sucks. Do NOT judge the game by that. The actual game, I quite enjoyed. to the point I played through it over the next day or two until I reached Oregon (not with a full party sadly). This game will take you longer to play through than the original. Yes, some things could be sped up to help with that if the devs were smart. But honestly, I found nothing that really detracted from the game. It's still super fun. It's still super frustrating when random bad things happen at the worst possible time. It's still likely that one of your team is going to die from dysentery. And at the end of the day, isn't that the way life is supposed to be? This is still the same basic premise people have loved for decades. You set out, you hope for the best, you encounter obstacles along the way. With some planning, and a bit of luck, at least one of your crew will make it to Oregon. Then, you get to do it all over again.
128 hours played
July 2026
👍 Highly Recommended I have been having a blast with *The Oregon Trail*. The game does a great job of blending classic Oregon Trail gameplay with modern mechanics, beautiful pixel art, and a surprising amount of replayability. One of my favorite features is building a party. Every profession brings unique bonuses, and the random traits make each journey feel different. Choosing who specializes in Medical, Shooting, Carpentry, and Wayfinding adds a nice layer of strategy, especially on the harder difficulties. The random events, riddles, hunting, fishing, camping, cooking, and character interactions keep every trip interesting. Even after dozens of runs, I was still discovering new encounters and unlocking new achievements. The higher difficulties can be challenging, and that's part of the fun if you enjoy planning and optimizing your team. The only thing I would change is adding a party reroll option during character selection. Sometimes the three available characters all roll poor traits, leaving you with no choice but to completely restart the run just to generate a new selection. It would be great if there were a simple "Reroll" button that refreshed the three available characters. Once you select a character, that decision is locked in, but being able to reroll the current selection would eliminate unnecessary restarting while keeping the challenge exactly the same. Overall, this is a fantastic modern take on a classic game. Whether you're here for the nostalgia or you're completely new to *The Oregon Trail*, there's a lot of content to enjoy. Highly recommended! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
22 hours played
April 2026
The bane of my 8th grade computer class has come to haunt me once again. I'm older... Wiser... More experienced... But 30 years later, I have still died of dysentery.
8 hours played
April 2026
bro i thought this was gonna be a chill little history game… nah this is just suffering simulator 1800s edition 💀 i start off confident, got my wagon, got my squad, thinking we about to make it big. 10 minutes later everyone got dysentery, im getting dysentery, the OX probably got dysentery too, whole squad just falling apart 😭 like why is this the main boss of the game??? why is every decision life or death??? “do you want to ford the river?” bro i don’t KNOW im not a pioneer 😭 next thing you know my whole family floating downstream and im sitting there like “welp” hunting got me feeling like a god for 3 seconds until i realize i shot 900 pounds of meat and can only carry 100… so now im just wasting buffalo like a villain 💀 random events got personal too. “you broke your leg” HOW?? we’ve been walking in a straight line for 3 days 😭 and just when you think you’re recovering—BOOM—dysentery again. it never leaves. it’s always watching. it’s the real final boss 💀 10/10 game tho nothing humbles you faster than dying 200 miles from your destination because you forgot to buy enough food (and because of dysentery… again) i will absolutely try again and make the exact same mistakes
29 hours played
April 2026
I grew up playing this in school on the old Green Screen Computers with Floppy Discs. This has been just as fun if not more so than the original. I appreciate the cultural updates as well as keeping with the Spirit of the original. I always learn something new to this day the more I play. Well Done to the Team that put this together as this is an Amazing new chapter!

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Frequently Asked Questions

The Oregon Trail is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam.

No, The Oregon Trail is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 29.99€ on Steam.

Yes, The Oregon Trail received 781 positive votes out of a total of 965 achieving a rating of 7.70.
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The Oregon Trail was developed and published by Gameloft.

Yes, The Oregon Trail is playable and fully supported on Windows.

No, The Oregon Trail is not playable on MacOS.

No, The Oregon Trail is not playable on Linux.

Yes, The Oregon Trail is playable and fully supported on Steam Deck.

Yes, The Oregon Trail is playable and fully supported on Steam Machine.

No, The Oregon Trail does not support VR.

The Oregon Trail is a single-player game.

Yes, there is a DLC available for The Oregon Trail. Explore additional content available for The Oregon Trail on Steam.

No, The Oregon Trail does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

No, The Oregon Trail does not support Steam Remote Play.

Yes, The Oregon Trail is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for The Oregon Trail.

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The Oregon Trail
Rating
7.7
781
184
Game modes
Features
Online players
44
Developer
Gameloft
Publisher
Gameloft
Release 14 Nov 2022
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