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The Caribou Trail
The WWI story where your goal isn't to kill, but to survive. In the still trenches, three soldiers learn the harsh truth of war: reckless missions, digging trenches, collecting dog tags and ghostly whispers in the dark. Home before the leaves fall, they thought.
Details
- Released
- May 14, 2026
- Developer
- Unreliable Narrators
- Genres
- Point-and-click · Action · Adventure · Indie
- Publisher
- Unreliable Narrators, Indie Asylum
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The Caribou Trail Reviews
Professional reviews from gaming critics
The Caribou Trail is a short but powerful tale of brotherhood in the trenches of World War I that will leave a lasting impression on anyone who plays it.
The Great War is full of untapped stories. The Caribou Trail is an example in how video games can excel in telling war stories and I hope we see more from the Unreliable Narrators.
The Caribou Trail presents a strong, albeit short, story worth experiencing alongside some boring, tedious, and downright pointless mechanics. While I recommend it for the story, it is one of those games that leave me wishing it were just a movie or an interactive visual novel, rather than what can only be described as a walking simulator.
If you're interested in history, The Caribou Trail is a fine experience, but if you're looking for a war game, you've come to the wrong place. This is an interactive narrative, though one so simple that the gameplay almost drags the rest of the game down with it. I accept that the narrative is the main focus, but as this is a game we're dealing with, the player needs to be engaged from time-to-time. That said, the game tells a gripping story that's certainly worth telling.
While presenting the historical context and its characters well, the game works as a great first episode, but unfortunately, it ends too soon.
World War I fiction is undoubtedly rare in videogames. Yes, there were standouts like EA and DICE's Battlefield 1 and Ubisoft Montpellier's Valiant Hearts:
