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The Trail: Frontier Challenge

22cans · Kongregate · 2017-08-15

Steam

AdventureIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Mar 08, 2018 (Nintendo Switch), Aug 15, 2017 (Mac), Aug 15, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 23, 2016 (iOS), Sep 23, 2016 (Android)

Are you ready to discover the undiscovered? Are you ready to climb the tallest mountains, wear the finest clothes, and earn a fortune beyond compare? Then welcome to the New World! Welcome to The Trail: Frontier Challenge!

The Trail: Frontier Challenge is a 2017 Adventure, Indie, Simulation priced at $14.99, with Mostly Positive (75% of 330 reviews) and an owner estimate of 20,000 .. 50,000.

2
playing now
75%
positive of 330 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$14.99
steam price (US)

2 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 14:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 2 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 37% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (58 reviews).
  • · Top 23% of 29,201 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 8.3k–20k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 330 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $4.49 at Steam (2020-11-12)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
515120172026Week of 2017-08-01: 51 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1602026-09-15 23:00 — 3 players2026-09-17 07:00 — 1 players2026-09-18 15:00 — 4 players2026-09-19 22:00 — 3 players2026-09-21 06:00 — 2 players2026-09-22 14:00 — 4 players2026-09-23 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-25 05:00 — 1 players2026-09-26 12:00 — 4 players2026-09-27 20:00 — 4 players2026-09-29 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-30 11:00 — 4 players2026-10-01 18:00 — 5 players2026-10-03 02:00 — 4 players2026-10-04 10:00 — 12 players2026-10-05 17:00 — 13 players2026-10-07 01:00 — 7 players2026-10-08 08:00 — 6 players2026-10-09 16:00 — 5 players2026-10-10 23:00 — 5 players2026-10-12 07:00 — 7 players2026-10-13 15:00 — 9 players2026-10-14 22:00 — 7 players2026-10-15 14:00 — 2 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$4.492017-08-162021-02-152017-08-16 — best price $13.492017-08-22 — best price $14.992017-10-26 — best price $10.042017-11-01 — best price $14.992017-11-22 — best price $10.042017-11-28 — best price $14.992017-12-21 — best price $7.492018-01-04 — best price $14.992018-06-21 — best price $7.492018-07-05 — best price $14.992018-11-21 — best price $7.492018-11-27 — best price $14.992018-12-21 — best price $5.992019-01-03 — best price $14.992020-10-29 — best price $7.492020-11-02 — best price $14.992020-11-12 — best price $4.492020-11-16 — best price $14.992020-11-25 — best price $7.492020-12-01 — best price $14.992020-12-22 — best price $7.492021-01-05 — best price $14.992021-01-21 — best price $5.992021-01-28 — best price $14.992021-02-11 — best price $5.992021-02-15 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

25
achievements tracked
76.7%
earned "A Bigger Boat"
18%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing

8 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3374%25
Switch (Nintendo)30%0
Switch (Nintendo)0—0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

RPGIndieCraftingSurvivalAdventureSimulationMultiplayerWalking Simulator

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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