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Organ Trail: Director's Cut – Simulation Game Review
Organ Trail: Director's Cut is a Simulation/Adventure game from The Men Who Wear Many Hats LLC, first launched in 9th August 2012.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 606+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Organ Trail: Director's Cut Stand Out
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Touch Arcade – 9/10 "Organ Trail: Director's Cut is a weird, wonderful and almost surprisingly expansive experience that will both infuriate and enchant."
148 Apps – 9/10 "Virtually every aspect of Organ Trail: Director’s Cut oozes style and cleverness."
Jay Is Games – "Organ Trail: Director's Cut is a quirky, darkly humorous, and off-beat love letter to retro gaming."
Game Trailers – "It’s definitely one of the more intense and cerebral zombie games out there"
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
-Choice driven 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
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Organ Trail: Director's Cut is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 1st November 2015
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Bug Fixes
-Fixed "Survivor" unlock
-Fixed "Take No Prisoners" Achievement
-Fixed town details not saving
-Removed upgrades from travel choice without endless
-Fixed not encountering Fording or Bandits when leaving town in endless
-Fixed teammates in car shooting for finale
-Added fix that should both prevent going -miles
Balance Tweaks & Other
-Reduced aiming sensitivity
-Added fording to new cities
-Clamped Half Zombie's speed
-Added target practice dummies to the intro
Download & Availability
Organ Trail: Director's Cut is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Organ Trail: Director's Cut on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Great game with great execution.
When we got the game we thought it would be clean.but it had a couple curse words which we didnt mind at first.then it had some nudity so we deleted it.probably for 15 and up.
We love this game to death. The concept, the gameplay, the music, the barebones story, its perfect. It gives you just enough detail to help you understand the world, but theres no real story besides the basic goal of reaching Safe Haven. The music is just beautiful. It holds a sort of hopeless hope in it with each track, that theres some light at the nonexistent end of the tunnel. This game is a masterclass of a parody that just oozes with creativity and uniqueness. We genuinely hope one day someone makes a video about this game and it becomes known for the masterpiece it is.
Organ Trail is a simplistic game but its entertaining. We see a lot of people criticizing the game for its lack of content, but we dont understand why its an issue for something to be simple especially if the developers intended it that way and executed it correctly.
All support has been dropped and no new games or anything. Yall literally had a commercial and fell off the planet. What happened.
Great game, love it to death, but the ending needs to be fixed.
We remember finding this game when we were still in middle school and its stayed on our phone ever since. This game is one of the last few things in the App Store that isnt plagued with scam ads every second. While we love this game with all our heart and know the devs worked on this game for so, so long, we cant help but feel its been kind of left to rot. Honestly, we would happily shell out more money for a DLC if it meant thered be more little side stories, events on the road, maybe even an alternate ending in the game.
Is probably the best phone game Ive ever played. Hands down if you love zombies and wanna travel and try to survive this is for you. Buy it now before this app wont be updated and can no longer be played. We hope they make more games like this. Thank you guys for the memories.
Ive had this game in our library for years now and we still find ourselves downloading it and then playing it over and over again. We hope they come out with some sort of sequel.
We expected an Oregon trail knock off and was very happy to discover how wrong we were. The random encounters can range from funny to sad, the tombstones are always funny, and the variety of minigames kept us entertained throughout the entire experience.
Wow, such a great twist on a classic. After seeing Apple arcade Oregon trail we were disappointed since it was so different but we were happy to see this game and get such nostalgic feelings about something so new. A+ in our book.
We love the game its very fun and cool because you can scavenge you can do many different things we also had it on our devices but the thing that takes away from it is that you kind of have to pay extra to get the full cut so you can get more because we just think its a little weird.
This game is much better than what it appears.
Very nostalgic. They put a lot of love into this title. Well worth the asking price.
Caveat, we have all the expansions. The sheer breadth of content, the quantity of variables for subsequent playthroughs, the surprising level of both visual and gameplay polish for a game going for the C64 era look, being able to play it both in an active and passive manner, the cool, jammy, synthy horror music, the fairly low power draw due in part to the lofi visual aesthetic, and the fact that its essentially a complete experience that doesnt include micro transactions (sans purchasing the two expansions, which are fairly cheap anyway and bring it up to parity with the Steam version), ads, or time and token limited play, we can verifiably call this the finest mobile game in existence. If you play games on mobile and Organ Trail isnt one of them, we implore you to change that immediately.
We love Oregon Trail, always have. The game is exactly what it says it is. Oregon Trail with zombies. If you arent a fan of the original, you likely wont be of this one. We however am. Zombies, or any apocalyptic scenario, makes everything better. Only complaint that we have is when attempting to restore purchase. Although we havent dived into the game until now, we are certain that we purchased both expansions on a prior iPhone, but when hitting the Restore Purchase button, we wait and wait for the game to connect, but it doesnt. Not happy about it, but 5 stars regardless.
Ive played it so many times but then we deleted it we just downloaded it again and its an awesome game especially when you find the grave that says a joke then we head pops up the ground it scared us to death and then we laughed the whole way back home if we were those people we would just call an Uberand put some weapons on it from the sunroof.
We had a GREAT time playing! The story and even the TUTORIAL was GREAT! Its almost puts the original game to shame! We really recommend you play this NOW.
The Organ Trail is awesome, we love how the game features routes across the United States. The locations are very accurate too, our favorite is The Ozarks, they have a very nice 8-bit art style. Im still playing this game through 2020! We love everything else in the game too, but our favorite is the traveling.
We have been playing this game for years and still havent gotten all the achievements unlocked. We rarely give 5 stars.. But this game is amazing.
This game and Black Paradox are the coolest games on the App Store.
We love this game because when our dad showed us this it was hard but then the more we played the more we got better the we played the more we loved it.
Best game on App Store! Download this now! Just like Oregon Trail! We loved it! We recommend beating the game with just the $2.99 app with no expansions bought! We liked the original way best we believe but who knows… We may edit this and say otherwise after beating it again on the expansions side… But to us, the original Organ Trail at 2.99 felt more scary and we were more enthrawled in our story. Very creepy soundtrack! Soundtrack tends to change in the expansions which we dont care for due to the mood set in the game…. And you can choose paths in expansion, but honestly we prefer the $2.99 and having to use the station wagon! That to us is an incredible DND style story. We felt so sad and creeped out, and bc of our names a lot of funny humor. We love this game and give it a 10/10! Buy it.
Totally 5 stars, so fun to play. Our parents said that they always played the Oregon trail when they were young, and this is just as fun.
Love the game, we bought the game and the expansions twice. The only and we mean the ONLY problem is when you beat the boss at the end the game will occasionally crash. Love this game for mobile and for steam.
We have played this game for over a year and still not bored with it. There is so much to do and to keep you busy and it gets WAY better if you buy the expansion packs. The game has a lot of gameplay and is definitely worth 5$ and should be priced more.
We love this game but what is the point of having other people with you we havent beaten the game yet but the people dont even help you they just sit there and eat your food and so on.
To be honest, when we first downloaded this game we assumed it would be boring and far to expensive, but after having the game for a while we can tell you its worth every penny. Somehow the creators made the game incredibly intense and addicting with so many random frustrating yet amazing twists and turns. If your looking for a long term game you can always rely on, look no further.
Because retro video games are one of our favorite things, especially the Oregon Trail, we really was happy when we found this on the App Store. Although it is quite a price to pay, we find the game and expansion packs worth the money. We would especially recommend this game to anyone who enjoyed the Oregon Trail (or any other retro games) and/or a Walking Dead fan.
We love that this game is like the original but so much better we would recommend to anyone.
Everything about this game is very well done. For how simple it is, its still expansive on options. We enjoy the occasional humor and we think the images for each location are so good! The music is also very fitting. Big fan:).
Being from the Oregon Trail Generation we loved playing the original Oregon Trail on the old apple computers as a kid and now the adult us can play Organ Trail on iOS! These developers took the gameplay of the original Oregon Trail and made it more geared towards adults by adding zombies, bandits, and a dark survival twist to it! Instead of hunting now its scavenging, instead of fording its sneaking through horde. The music is a fantastic mix of ominous rocking chiptunes, synth, and real instruments, and the gameplay is a great balance of being incredibly fun and challenging, you really have to manage your resources just like the original Oregon Trail! If youve played Death Road to Canada (also influenced by Oregon Trail), youll love this! Organ Trail plays much closer to the original Oregon Trail (it even has keyboard click sounds, yes!) and is much darker than Death Road, as Organ Trail does not have the wacky humor nor the character customization depth as Death Road (Organ Trail does have some dark humor moments though and you can unlock characters skins if youve purchased the add-on). Honestly, we love both games, and anyone who likes zombie survival games (especially with a retro look) will love this game, Buying the add-ons is a no-brainer (heh) and TOTALLY worth it! 5 stars.
This is an amazing game. However, a note to parents beware there is a bit of swearing in this game. So far we have seen the D-word, S-word and f bomb a few times, so just keep that in mind before you let your kids play it.
Major fan of organ trail. Miss playing it. Update for iOS 12 for iPhone X phones.
This is our go-to road trip game, the Expansion is well worth it.
We have had this game forever since they brought to the App Store. Always our go to game just to kill some time plus its a great spin on Oregon trail. And the Atari graphics whats not to love about this game.
Put many hours on the PS4 and PC version! Game is very addicting. Our only complaint about the mobile version is that we wish there was touch screen joystick controls. Shooting and walking around by tapping the screen can be really difficult and has caused us a few accidental deaths.
This is one of our favorite games, and since we can airplay this game on a tv, this is a great party game! Just have your friends pick a name, AirPlay the game on a tv, and play with your friends, and let them make some choices! This is one of the BEST games we have EVER played before, and we are a huge gamer. If we could, we would give it 10 stars.
This game is an addicting and fun retro party.
Please make a second one, this ones amazing.
We cant even remember how long we've been playing this game. We played it YEARS ago on the computer and just rediscovered on the phone and its so much fun, the perfect amount of difficult, immersive, and fun. Love it.
Ive finished the campaign like 10 times, trying to get all characters, cars, tombstones and achievements to 100% the game. It is really fun and we recommend it.
Amazing game love the style and sound effects. Also the dlc makes the game 10 times better then it already was.
This game is so well created, Ive been playing it since it came out and we still cant get enough of it. Great for road trips.
We LOVE THIS S**T wish MWWMH would release more retro titles so they could be grouped into one package deal, aint that a good idea mwwmh? AINT IT.
This game is more expensive than some people are accustomed to. Thats fine, but for perspective, we shelled out three dollars for Organ Trail when we were nine years old. Im now fifteen, and we still re-download it every few months and play through a trip with four of our close friends, just for the sheer joy of it. Bottom line: it pays for itself. Youre gonna be using a long time. Thats why its worth the three bucks, and why Im beside ourselves with excitement after just having bought the expansions. Our favorite mobile game and one that is unlike any other. A must-have on anybodys phone.
This game is Great! The music brings you on a journey as well as traveling surviving and picking your ways though life to survive as well this game brings many emotion… We bought death road to Canada, 6.99 now it's 10.99… This game beats it we love this game, not a bad price.
We bought this game a few months ago just to have some games to play while we conserve data, and the organ trail has been a great way for us to pass time at work. We do wish people would stop complaining about the DLC price though. We mean come on! It's cheap.
Amazing game and it's very intriguing.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.0.4
- Size: 234.86 MB
- iOS: 6.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor, Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes, Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence, Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: The Men Who Wear Many Hats LLC
Last updated: 1st November 2015 | Genre: Simulation, Adventure | Developer: The Men Who Wear Many Hats LLC