On the back of the roster are tombstones, which can be customized when players die, as in the original video game.
There are sixteen unique calamity cards, with one in eight resulting in instant death.
Other trail cards represent forts or towns, allowing the player to resupply.
[5] Writing for Ars Technica, Megan Geuss complained that some cards have ambiguous instructions or are hard to understand, but praised the cooperative aspect as "refreshing" and stated that players in her group "weren't bored by the end".
Each player has 4 family members as in the first The Oregon Trail video game, but has the ability to upgrade their wagon.