Organ Trail: Director's Cut iOS
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86 out of 100

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6.2 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 9 Ratings

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  • Summary: Organ Trail is a retro zombie survival game. Travel westward in a station wagon with 4 of your friends, scavenging for supplies and fending off the undead. Members of your party might die of dysentery or you might have to put them down yourself when they get bit. Faithfully recreated it as if it were on the Apple 2, Organ Trail offers amazing 16 color art and retro beeps and boops. Packed full of zombie mechanics, themes and references; this is a must have for any zombie survival fans.Created by a small indie team in Chicago, The Men Who Wear Many Hats are very excited to launch with this game as their first commercial product, funded by our Kickstarter fans.-Name your party after your friends and watch them die slowly-Hours of gameplay-Get dysentery and 9 other diseases-Scavenge for supplies while you fight back the undead-Manage your food, ammo, fuel, medkits and more in your struggle to survive-Put down infected party members who might turn on you-Stop at towns to trade, take jobs and fix your car-Car upgrades-Fight off bandits-Zombie boss fights-"Choose-your-own-adventure" style encounters on the road-A weather system and day night cycle-Huge soundtrack and delicious Apple 2 pixel art-28 Achievements-Survivor leaderboards-400 community written tombstones… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 8
  3. Negative: 0 out of 8
  1. Digital Spy
    Aug 15, 2012
    100
    Despite its inspiration lying in classic games, Organ Trail can really stand on its own with a tricky resource management, mini-games well suited to touch control and a bitingly witty sense of humor.
  2. Slide to Play
    Aug 20, 2012
    100
    An engrossing survival simulator which you may or may not survive.
  3. Hyper Magazine
    Oct 8, 2012
    90
    Manages to nail the sense of dread inherent in all good zombie fiction. [Nov 2012, p.29]
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  4. TouchGen
    Aug 20, 2012
    70
    Organ Trail is immensely fun to play a couple of times, but after that the fun vanes.

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  1. Taberone
    8
    The original Oregon trail with zombies. You can watch your party die slowly as you play endless or campaign mode. Progress too far in endless and your aiming dots are gone. It is NOT A BUG. Random events, easy controls once you learn them, and more will keep you occupied. It might get repetitive for some, but for me the fun hasn't died it out.… Expand
  2. Oxcart
    6
    For those who were around back in the good old days of monochrome graphics (yeah, there was something worse than 8-bit), you almost certainly know The Oregon Trail. A bunch of dolts pile into a wagon and go trundling off to Oregon, breaking the wagon, hunting for food, and getting dysentery. Ah, the good old days. Well, they're back with a twist: The Organ Trail has opened. The zombie apocalypse has lurched onto the scene. You and four others pile into a classic station wagon in search of a safe zone. You're not hunting food now; you're scavenging and trying to stop from being food for roaming zombies. Survivor colonies are there for trading, work, and upgrading your car. And, yep, watch out for dysentery and typhoid. It's a game with great throwback graphics, a cool premise, good implementation, and overall a lot of fun in a small package. So what am I doing giving it a six? Doesn't it deserve like a nine? Yeah, it does, except there are some long-standing bugs that still haven't been fixed, the worst of which is a disappearing gunsight that renders you effectively unable to defend yourself or scavenge (which means your only recourse is reset). If that could be fixed, this would be a nine with ease. Here's hoping.… Expand

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