As someone who played the original when it was new, I was excited to see a 50% off coupon in my email. Honestly, $15 bucks is too much for any Oregon Trail reboot. Especially if it still has bugs in it from its release. Way to exploit the nostalgia of a generation of gamers. Too bad that same generation is the one that seems less inclined to accept this kind of crap. Surprised they didn't try to make it a subscription based mobile game. Maybe that's its next DLC.
But it's so fun to die trying, repeatedly and hilariously.
I would've liked to ratee this game higher, but I simply can't. I enjoyed it a lot, though it becomes somewhat repetitive, and got about 44 hours in before the crashes are making it simply impossible to enjoy. First, by the winter of the 1st year, I seem to have exhausted new building options from disc research, and it seems rare that a villager with a quest provides you with new building blueprints and tasks. It seemed to be heading in the direction of "grind for gols to upgrade farm" and a clunky hack-n-slash for the only town quest that has come up at this point. I'd love to see if this impression bore out into the late game, but my game crashes at least once every in-game day. I just don't have the time or inclination to play each day twice. Design wise, it's a good looking game, many of the extras are pretty enjoyable. I didn't get far into the romance line of things, but I do take issue with 5 of the eligible bachelors being almost identical-looking middle age man types. I find that design choice to be a little lazy, and limiting of the romance field on the guy side of things. In short, you start to love the early game before it becomes either too shallow in design or too buggy to continue. Worth a few hours of fun, but only on steep sale.
