Gameloft and HarperCollins Productions have announced that The Oregon Trail will expand the digital stores where players can download the game starting July 4th. Fans can head to Epic Games Store and GoG.com to send their hapless pioneers into the wilderness to face likely doom. In addition, for those with a more visceral bent, a physical Deluxe Edition for PS5 and Nintendo Switch is coming on July 18th. These new editions will include all five Apple Arcade content updates, events, visual fillers, and accessibility options. The best news is that the game will come with a hefty 40% discount in celebration of the new storefronts.
To celebrate the big news, developers have released an all-new trailer showing potential players some of the pitfalls (can anyone say dysentery?) and challenges (can anyone say snakebite or broken leg?) that they can send their pioneers careening towards on their way to Oregon.
Features include
- 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.
- 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.
- 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!
Learn more by visiting The Oregon Trail official site.
