it's super pish easy
"supplies" bar instead of specific wheels, axels, tongues
you can't choose to hunt, it happens automatically when you need food
you can fish and gather berries to get food as well as hunt
if someone gets sick, just rest for a few days and they get better
you can pan for gold (in a fun minigame!) to get more money after you start
farmers eat food more slowly and carpenters' wagons break down more slowly. WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT SHIT. The most important lesson of the Oregon Trail is "damn it feels good to be a banksta." The correct answer to "what advantage does choosing a poor starting class give me?" is NOTHING!!
it has cute graphics but even the hard mode is fucking easy, I wish it had a "real" mode unlocked when you beat it that added some of the old-school hardcoreness.
dcharlie read that Let's Play so that there is someone else on the board who understand the majesty of SUSAN, wrathful God of pioneer housewives. I spent like 20 minutes today trying to find a pioneer woman action figure I could use as a base to mod into SUSAN
:bow SUSAN :bow2
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