The Doom Trail - an Oregon Trail based game
THE DOOM TRAIL
A journey nobody asked for.
Guide a doomed little party across a trail that hates them, through weather that will question their sanity, past creatures that mostly just want to be left alone (you will not leave them alone).
Pick your party — from one absolute loser traveling completely alone to a full family of five — choose what pulls your wagon (or nobody, if you enjoy suffering), and set out for The Threshold, hundreds of miles away. Along the way:
- Random events with real consequences — moral dilemmas, dumb luck, disgusting encounters, and a few things you can't unsee.
- Real weather — sky conditions and temperature both matter, and both can ruin your week.
- Hunt, cast unreliable magic, and ration your food while your party's sanity frays in real time.
- Five towns, five named NPCs, each with their own personality and opinion of you — ask for advice, beg, or try your luck at theft.
- Individual party moods — someone might come back from town suspiciously relaxed. Someone else might just be furious for a week after a run-in with a goat.
- Three difficulty levels, an adjustable start month, and a save system, so you can put this down and pick the suffering back up later.
Every death gets a proper epitaph. Every choice can go wrong in a way you didn't expect. This is Oregon Trail if it had a considerably worse attitude.
Content warning: explicit language, crude and dark humor, violence, and adult themes throughout. Not suitable for minors.
Actively working on this game to make it better everyday! Feel free to ask anything, give any ideas you'd want me to put, and show me if you really had fun playing it!
| Status | In development |
| Platforms | HTML5, Windows |
| Author | HeyTheBall |
| Genre | Strategy |
| Tags | Adult, Indie, Narrative, Retro |
| Average session | About a half-hour |
| Languages | English |
| Inputs | Keyboard, Mouse |
| Accessibility | One button |
| AI Disclosure | AI Assisted, Code |
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