The Trail: Frontier Challenge
Skip · Multiplayer · 2017
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 35, under the fair line, at $14.99.
- Length
- 11h
- Value
- $1.36/hr
- Reviews
- 75% of 331 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 1 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
Are you ready to discover the undiscovered? Are you ready to climb the tallest mountains, wear the finest clothes, and earn a fortune beyond compare? Then welcome to the New World! Welcome to The Trail: Frontier Challenge!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, GeForce 8500 GT, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
14 discounts in the 9 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 4 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
On value it sits in the top 34 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 77 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 63 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Isle ($19.99, scores 53) beats it on value, while it beats Gloria Victis: Medieval MMORPG (free, scores 21).
The drop-off
77% start to 4% 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
Players
- Players online
- 8 when we last checked, on Oct 12, 14:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Endless grind for tools, cloth, food. The mobile game feel is strong in this one. Also annoying slow animations
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
After playing The Trail for a while I just noticed that the PC version of the game has actually much less content than the mobile version which is free. Pretty sick decision in my opinion. Don't buy this.
I played this game on mobile when I was a kid and loved it. When I saw that it was on Steam I knew I had to get it. Thru-hiking the entire length of the Appalachian Trail has been a dream of mine for a long time, and this game felt like I was doing that but through my computer. I really hope I get to do the real thing one day. After all these years I finally decided to pick the game back up and finish it, and I...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Trail: Frontier Challenge scores 35/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/584370/the-trail-frontier-challengeReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.