Gold Rush! takes you back to the year 1849, when gold was discovered in California. It was certainly one of the most exciting times in American history. Gold Rush! includes the three routes tens of thousands took to the gold regions. Become Jerrod Wilson and experience each trek as you travel from New York to California. Whichever route you decide to take, you will see many historical sights. Try going overland across the Great Plains and huge mountain ranges, crossing the Isthmus of Panama, or rounding Cape Horn on the tip of South America. If you survive and arrive at Sutter’s Fort, the adventure is still only half over! Many other puzzles remain to be solved before you achieve your goals in California.
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One of the last games to use Sierra's dated AGI interface. Despite the implication of the name, most of the game is about getting to California rather than prospecting for gold. It ends up playing like a frustrating and mediocre Oregon Trail. The sound work here is also subpar, and while the visuals have a certain charm to them, but they can't really carry the rest of the game.
Repetitive and painful and full of ways to die as the game will happily kill you off with random disease without warning. Its like "the oregon trail" but terrible.
First act: Life ruining simulator
Second act: Multiple routes
Third act: You get to type "pan" several hundred times
Definitely never going to California if this is what it's like.
Also the STeam version gives you a trading card that's description is just how the game ends which doesn't seem a good description for a trading card imo
Second act: Multiple routes
Third act: You get to type "pan" several hundred times
Definitely never going to California if this is what it's like.
Also the STeam version gives you a trading card that's description is just how the game ends which doesn't seem a good description for a trading card imo