The Oregon Trail: American Settler

The Oregon Trail: American Settler
Developer(s)Gameloft
Publisher(s)Gameloft
SeriesThe Oregon Trail
Platform(s)
ReleaseNovember 17, 2011
Genre(s)City-building
Mode(s)Single-player

The Oregon Trail: American Settler is a city-building game developed and published by Gameloft. Released on November 17, 2011, for iOS and fireOS, it is the sequel to Gameloft's 2009 reboot of The Oregon Trail.

Gameplay

Taking place narratively after a player completes a standard game of The Oregon Trail, players of American Settler have to build a new town in the frontier. Like many other freemium titles, players have to acquire money and use it to purchase buildings and other goods to keep production flourishing.[1] The gameplay is similar to other games from the same genre, such as FarmVille and FrontierVille, sharing the same top-down perspective of the landscape.[2]

Release

American Settler was released on November 17, 2011.[3]

The game has a Metacritic rating of 66/100 based on 4 critic reviews.[4] Multiplayer.it claimed the game was fun at first, but soon went downhill. They gave the game a 65/100.[6]

Remake

The Oregon Trail: American Settler was remade into The Oregon Trail: Boom Town, published by Tilting Point, LLC, on October 25, 2022. It was released on both the App Store and Google Play.[7][8]

References

  1. ^ Erin, Bell (August 19, 2016). "The Oregon Trail: American Settler - App Review". commonsensemedia.org. Archived from the original on July 2, 2020. Retrieved May 10, 2018.
  2. ^ "The Oregon Trail: American Settler Review". TouchArcade. December 2011. Archived from the original on 2018-08-06. Retrieved 2018-05-10.
  3. ^ a b Jim, Squires (November 17, 2011). "The Oregon Trail: American Settler Review". Gamezebo. Archived from the original on September 14, 2017. Retrieved May 21, 2017.
  4. ^ a b "The Oregon Trail: American Settler for iPhone/iPad Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved May 21, 2017.
  5. ^ Ford, Eric (December 1, 2011). "'The Oregon Trail: American Settler' Review – Taming The Freemium Frontier". TouchArcade. Archived from the original on June 9, 2021. Retrieved June 24, 2021.
  6. ^ Pugliese, Tommaso (December 15, 2011). "The Oregon Trail: Pionieri d'America". Multiplayer.it (in Italian). Archived from the original on February 4, 2012. Retrieved October 27, 2014.
  7. ^ "The Oregon Trail: Boom Town". Apple Apps. June 3, 2023. Archived from the original on October 9, 2023. Retrieved July 29, 2024.
  8. ^ "The Oregon Trail: Boom Town". Google Play. Archived from the original on 2024-01-21. Retrieved 2024-07-29.


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