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.
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
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.