From the makers of Enviro-Bear comes a game that’s almost as silly, but far more playable. (I know some people will defend Enviro-Bear to the death as a game, but I’ve never managed to get past that control system. That said, it’s one of the very first iPhone games I ever bought and it’s never left my phone.)

So Long, Oregon! is a mixture of, um, The Oregon Trail and Trials HD. Sort of.

So Long, Oregon!

Indians can be helpful, but not in this case.

You’re in a wagon and you have to reach El Dorado by jumping over hills, hunting animals and getting into all kinds of disease-based scrapes. It’s randomly generated and, I think, sometimes impossible, but games are short enough that having to restart isn’t a problem. (The charm helps, too.)

I spend a stupidly long time playing this last night. I even got to El Dorado and back once, making me one of only fifteen players to set a score on the leaderboard. (I was the worst of those fifteen, but at least I got there!)

There are even extra challenge modes that change things round a little – I’m especially fond of the race mode.