Things could get pretty bleak in classic text adventure The Oregon Trail, with dwindling supplies, damaging storms, and hostile entities making the frontier journey a test of resource management and strategy. Dying of dysentery was only one of the risks, along with (depending on which of the many versions you played) broken limbs, typhoid, or starvation.
Wagon, which launches this week on Steam, is a spiritual successor to The Oregon Trail, where the word spiritual is pretty literal. There's a strong thread of the occult running through the 1-bit adventure: the calendar you mark the passage of time with has a pentagram on it, and that's just for starters.
