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The Oregon Trail: Boom Town

Farm & city building simulator

Ratings

Age

13+

Category

Simulation

Languages

English

The Oregon Trail: Boom Town is a simulation and town-building game where players develop Independence, Missouri, into a frontier boom town. While managing resources like crops and livestock, players must also outfit pioneers with supplies (food, medicine, clothes) to help them survive hazards like Dysentery and Cholera on their journey west. The game includes seasonal events, clans, and extensive town customization options.

Dinsun Expert Review

Our Expert Score

81/100

The Oregon Trail: Boom Town is a clever pivot for the franchise, shifting from a pure survival game to a town-building simulator with 'outfitting' mechanics. You play as the manager of Independence, Missouri, and your job is to turn it into a hub that can support the pioneers heading west. It’s satisfying to see your small village grow into a thriving city with marketplaces, saloons, and even universities.

The 'survival' aspect isn't gone; it's just shifted. You are responsible for sending supplies to wagons on the trail. If you don't send enough medicine or food, those pioneers won't make it. This adds a layer of urgency to your farming and crafting that most city-builders lack. While it features the usual timers and microtransactions found in Tilting Point games, the Oregon Trail theme is well-integrated and respects the legacy of the original series while providing a modern mobile experience.

Dinsun reviewed on: Fri Feb 27 2026

Features

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Town-building and management

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Pioneer supply missions

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Classic Oregon Trail survival elements

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Clan and weekly events

Tips & Walkthrough

Gameplays

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Q&A

It is a reimagining that focuses on town-building in the starting location of Independence rather than just the journey itself.

Ratings & Reviews

Fun but Super Glitchy and things that don’t make sense
Mon Jan 08 2024 JK2882_

Very fun game being able to build your town. A lot of tasks that allow you to stack money and resources. Fun graphics, events and themes. It’s honestly the game I play the most. However, it’s super glitchy. Errors loading or connecting. Some weekly events I’ve won I never received the award. There needs to be a better balance of supplies you get from shipments. More supplies to unlock land and less to build buildings. The ratio just doesn’t make sense when the ability to build a building is few and far between, dependent on your level. Also, it doesn’t make sense that sometimes a shipment or wagon is needing a supply that you don’t even have a building with which to make it. Like a shipment asks for a flower. Well I have to have a flower shop. But I can’t build one because I’m not at the level to even build it? Even an event where you have to harvest crops for points. The time you have to harvest is 4 hours, but the crops they ask you to make to harvest takes 7+ hours lol. So when you harvest you won’t even be able to get the points…. Just frustrating and needs to be thought through better.

Weird pacing and disappearing cash?
Sat Jun 10 2023 10Silver

This game was super fun in the beginning. But as I played, things got frustrating… fast. First there’s the pacing. Super weird. It feels like I’m leveling up too fast because I’m being asked for things that will take me days to acquire on my own. I have so many wagons (the main coin makers) just sitting there with things that I feel like I’m days away from getting. You need coins and materials to make buildings to get the materials the wagons are asking for you for. How can I buy things when I’m locked away from the main coin maker? And once you have the coins, you usually don’t have enough materials (which you get from entirely luck based 4-6 hour steamboat trips). So the pacing just feels… off to me. Second, your cash will disappear. At first it was just 5 or 6 at a time, nothing tooo bad tbh. But then I lost all 76 in one go. Frustrating, right (this was my work around for the steamboat materials)? I managed to start building it back up only to lose all 30 or so AGAIN. This isn’t just me either, 3 other people in my guild have reported the same issue. So now I feel like I have to spend it as soon as I get it or lose it. I honestly wouldn’t spend real money on this game because the amount of glitches is truly astonishing for a released game. TLDR: Your main money maker is nearly impossible to complete in a timely manner because of pacing issues and your cash will disappear. Don’t spend real money on this game.

Money grab rip off of FarmVille
Sat Oct 28 2023 desertpirate710

This game is practically a reskinned carbon copy of FarmVille with the addition of sending supplies to wagons as an added task. Game play is super fast and guided up to about level 10 then you get a little actual game play before you hit the pay wall at lvl 15. Pretty much everything about this game is set up to make you pay real money to keep playing once you hit that level 15 pay wall. And I don’t mind throwing a little money at a developer every once in a while if the game play is good but literally half the time I’m playing the game is throwing pop ups at me to upgrade my barn cuz I’m out of space. Well yes, cuz the game is set up so you don’t ever have enough barn space to hold items so you have to pay real money to get the needed resources to upgrade the barn. And the cost for those resources is usually between $5-10 real dollars for a single barn upgrade that only gives you an additional 10 item capacity of the barn. The only other way to get those resources for upgrades is to send boats loaded with supplies but the boats take 4 hours to come back unless you pay special bucks (that are hard to get in game) and once you open the mine, the boats will bring back mining tools as well as the resources to upgrade the barn and build city buildings which further limits your barn upgrade abilities. Just everything about this game is set up to paywall you into paying and the amount of real money they want for is over the top.

Game has potential but soon gets frustrating
Mon May 15 2023 Indybooks

Originally, when I started the game, I had fun building stuff, and making product and delivering the product and making money. But now I’m up to level 22 and I cannot get the materials I need to raise the max population so I can build new production equipment. And when it takes four hours for the ship to come back, and after about 4-6 ships, I do not get any materials I need, it gets rather frustrating. I don’t mind spending a little bit of money, but right now I am behind about five production equipment and the orders continue to ask for product that I cannot produce. And when I trash orders it takes 30 minutes to get a new one. Plus when growing some of the plants takes 1-3 hours, that’s ridiculous. I am not going to spend $8 or so every time I want to build a building that raises the population so I can build the next production plant. That’s too bad because the theme is fun. UPDATE: People were saying game was buggy, well it just happened to me. After I FINALLY built the Jail, which raised max pop by 65, and I started building 3 living quarter buildings to raise the population, the game crashed. When I reloaded, the jail was not finished, the living quarters were not started, my max pop reverted to the old number, AND some of my building materials were missing. So instead of spending 25 bucks to make up for missing materials, it wanted me to spend about 100 bucks. I am done with this game!

Good game minus Glitches
Wed Jan 15 2025 AngrySurveyor

The game is rather fun to play and the graphics are good. A minor complaint would be is that a lot of the game relies on you growing stuff but it is rather hard to get land to grow. Like most games if you don’t buy things game play is slower and harder. However, the biggest problem is all the glitches they’ve had lately. You lose things you’ve earned or aren’t able to click on things. Currently I can’t even get the game to load. It’s stuck at 60% loading and never goes farther, occasionally you get an error screen but that’s it. I put a lot of time and effort into playing this game but I think I’m going to have to find something else to play. I notice I’m not the only with these issues and apparently it’s be going on for over a year. How does a company know about glitches for over a year and doesn’t fix them? I have contacted their customer support 3 or 4 times with the majority of their responses just being a generic reply and nothing more. The only time I got a different reply was when they told me to try updating the app but there was no new updates so that didn’t help me. UPDATE: it’s been over 24hrs since I’ve been able to log into the app. It refuses to load. Even before then I was having trouble logging on and the app was EXTRA glitchy. This game has the potential to be great but the creators refuse to fix it. I think it’s time for me to give up.

Fun but very buggy
Wed Jun 28 2023 Amsgirly26

Firstly, this game is fun. However there is a massive issue with bugs and glitches. Many times I have wasted money (actual money not game earned money) on buildings I purchase and build and then are gone the next time I load the game. TWICE I have opened the game to see buildings I did not purchase either completely built or being built. And once I opened the game to find all my open land that I hadn’t placed anything on absolutely covered in fences?!? Like every nook and cranny. The worst part was that almost all my coin and in game money was gone. Many times I have opened the game to find my population reduced only to find houses I just built are gone and have to be rebuilt. Or I have added building to increase population cap and building for living and not get any farmland. Or increase it to the point I should get multiple farm lands and find I only get one. I’m really irritated at the loss of my actual money I paid for things and having to redo work. If it were only once I could see that it’s a bug that’s being worked on but this is multiple times. I even had to pay to open the trading post TWICE because the game glitched or bugged out and I had to do it again the next time I opened the game. Also guilds opened and it’s totally pointless. No one does anything. Honestly I want my money back for all the things I paid for and lost due to bugs and glitches. It feels like a scam.

Things disappearing, including help
Tue May 23 2023 DeborahCampbell

I started playing this game and found it to be fun but after about a week I was going along, working on challenges that had me buying and placing houses, city buildings, production buildings, and decorations. The problem started with decorations. I would move things around, like where they were, close the app, and when I reopened it the decorations were gone. Ok, annoyance, but the game was still fun so I kept playing. Then some houses vanished. My population did not change, but the houses were gone. I looked to see how to contact for help in the app but there was no way. When a production building disappeared and I could not rebuild it, I came here to review it. While reading reviews I found a contact email. So I did. Providing all the information and details. Got a message back saying they passed on the info to the development team and they would research and watch for updates. I emailed them a couple more times with additional issues and got the same response. I just lost another production building. As much as I enjoy the game, I know that if I tell them anything I will get the “canned” response I have already gotten. Having had to dig to contact, to begin with, to report issues is bad enough, but they are unwilling to help. Don't play this fun game. It's not worth it.

If I could rank lower I absolutely would
Mon Jun 26 2023 Reaper crew 77

Let me start off by saying I really wanted to love this game. As a child from the 80s, Oregon Trail was awesome as a kid so I decided to give this game a chance. It started off great everything seem to be working then over time started to notice that the game wasn’t saving properly. I would begin the crafting process of items turn off the game for the a lot of time needed to craft the item. When I log back on, it’s as if I never did anything. I decided to try a little experiment. I began the crafting process for a couple of items. Decided to spend dollars to speed up the process. And then turned off the game. Turn it back on and the items that I had crafted completely disappeared. I have also placed the second Mill to be built on more than one occasion. Keep in mind this cost coins to build. After about the fifth time of doing this, it finally stayed. However, in the process of having this work I have spent over 15,000 coins to build the item. I haven’t received any of those coins back for the times the Milton build. Oh and good luck trying to get a hold of anybody that cares. I have sent messages through the game and gotten no response. Complained in the Facebook forum and no response. Avoid this game it does not work!!!!!!!!!

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