The Oregon Trail: American Settler

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The Oregon Trail: American Settler
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Developer(s) Gameloft
Publisher(s) Gameloft
Series The 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 .

Contents

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. 1 2 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. 1 2 "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.