It runs great technically, and looks pretty sharp as well. You'll be given a short story and will then need to choose from various options, depending on the risk you're willing to take to be successful, or how many resources you'd like to dedicate to that choice.Įven though I could continue (for quite a while, I'd imagine) with the comparisons to other games, as, let's face it, Gameloft is kind of known for that, The Oregon Trail: American Settler is a pretty fun game in its own right.
Once you start building your city out in the frontier, you'll quickly need to build more homes so that you can staff more businesses (again, this is the CityVille element of the game), but will also run into random encounters a la Pioneer Trail. Speaking of traditional Oregon Trail elements, you'll also have a chance to go hunting for food by shooting at the random critters that appear while chopping trees and performing other "nature-themed" tasks on your land. You'll need to collect medicine to help them by asking your friends to send it to you. For some originality, and to bring in a classic "Oregon Trail" element, your family members can get sick. In keeping with the CityVille comparisons, we also see decorations being used to offer bonuses to the payout of surrounding items. It's a situation similar to that of another Zynga game, CityVille, in that the food here is the "Goods" there, and you'll receive coins and experience points when they're gone (this could take minutes or hours). That being said, some of these features do introduce slight differences to the experience.įor instance, some buildings, instead of automatically turning a profit every few hours, require food to operate. You'll be asked to construct items like a cabin for your family, farm plots to grow food for your family (and eventually visitors), chop down trees for lumber, and complete quests for your family members and friends alike. The game starts with your family of three ending their trip on the Oregon Trail and winding up in the overrun wilderness of the open frontier. The main difference here is that Pioneer Trail is available for play on Facebook, while American Settler is for iPhone / iPad. In the time that Zynga's Pioneer Trail (formerly FrontierVille) has been available on Facebook, many similar games have been released, but perhaps no other game has been so downright similar (the word "clone" quickly comes to mind) as Gameloft's The Oregon Trail: American Settler.
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