The Oregano Trail

Load the wagon, pick your pace, and pray the river is kind. Six colors, square-wave beeps, and dysentery — just like the computer lab in 1985.

It is 1848. You have one wagon, five hopeful souls, and 2,040 miles of prairie, mountains, and rivers that would very much like to tip you over. Go west. Try not to die.

THE OREGANO TRAIL is a loving throwback to the computer-lab classics of the early 1980s — the games you played on a humming beige machine while your teacher thought you were learning. Six-color pixel art, a chunky terminal font, square-wave beeps synthesized the old way, and gentle scanlines. No remaster gloss. The real look, on your phone.

YOUR CALLS, YOUR FUNERAL • Pick your profession — the banker rides easy, the farmer earns triple the glory • Outfit your wagon at the general store: oxen, food, clothing, ammunition, spare parts • Set the pace and the rations — push too hard and the trail pushes back • Ford the river, caulk and float, or pay the ferryman — choose wrong and pay dearly

THE TRAIL FIGHTS FAIR (BUT IT FIGHTS) • Disease, snakebites, blizzards, hail, thieves, and broken axles — every setback is real and every one can be survived with the right supplies • Warm clothing matters when the blizzard hits. Spare parts matter when the wheel goes. Skimp at the store and you'll feel it on the trail • Mountains and forests slow the wagon. Plan around the terrain or fall behind the season

SHOOT STRAIGHT OR STARVE • Hunt bison, deer, and rabbits in the sparse pixel woods • Ammo is money and money is scarce — every shot counts

DIE HISTORICALLY • Succumb to dysentery like your ancestors intended • Every run ends on the trail or in the Willamette Valley — chase your best score on the Oregano Top Ten • Share your gravestone. It's what they would have wanted.

HONEST RETRO • 100% offline — play in a tunnel, on a plane, or in a covered wagon • No ads, no accounts, no tracking, nothing to buy • Auto-saves your journey; quit and pick up the trail later

No two runs end the same. Fresh dangers, fresh graves — reach the valley if you can.