The Oregon Trail
Skip · Strategy · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 37, under the fair line, at $29.99. Fair at $9.40, lower than any Steam price we have tracked since Nov 2022 (lowest $9.89, Jun 2026).
- Length
- 5.8h
- Value
- $5.17/hr
- Reviews
- 79% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 50% ($14.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 60% ($11.99)
- Last discount ended
- 16 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA Geforce GTX 660, 1.5 GB of storage. Windows only.
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What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
June 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $9.89. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 35 in the 4 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
On value it sits in the top 33 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 75 percent. Among the games that feel like it, CONSCRIPT: Director’s Cut ($19.99, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats 江湖客栈-The Jianghu (free, scores 1).
This site sampled 558 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 21 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written November 2022 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 362 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 40 percent of the 181 reviews written there were positive, against 79 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
5.8 hours to finish it, 28 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.8 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 5.8 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
91% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Fun game and a good value, especially if you wait for it to be on sale. Solid replay options and side quests; different characters with various attributes, different routes you can take- keeps it interesting. *One word of caution for our red hat friends; there are native Americans represented in the game and women, some who are strong, independent, and have strong survival skills, so please use caution, as we know...
Do you really have to ask? Just download it and get the DLC. It's the only playable version of the game on modern hardware without emulation, and it's worth it for the amount of content alone.
It's cool and all, but it's really dumbed-down. Kinda stupid you can't start out with a hunting knife, edit your party at the beginning, a lot of felt way too easy from what I remember. I opted to download the old one instead and threw it on a windows 98 VM lol, I'd recommend doing that versus buying this. I felt zero nostalgia playing this lmao felt like an easier rip-off more than the trail we grew up with.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Oregon Trail scores 37/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2013360/the-oregon-trailReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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