Westbound is a single-player, turn-based wagon expedition for iPhone and iPad. Choose five travelers, load the wagon, and guide your party 1,600 miles across five regions to a new home at Haven Homestead. Every mile has a cost, and every traveler matters.

No timers, no ads, no purchases, no account — and it plays completely offline.

Features

Choose Your Party

Pick a leader and four companions, and give them names. Every traveler brings a skill to the trail.

Leader backgrounds: a Carpenter who repairs the wagon faster, a Trader who starts with extra cash, or a Guide who reads rivers and weather better
Companions: carpenters, scouts, caregivers, and foragers, each improving a different part of the journey
If your leader is lost, a survivor steps up and the expedition carries on

Plan Every Day

Set your travel pace and daily rations, check the weather and the water ahead, then choose to travel or make camp. Nothing advances while you read or plan.

Five regions — Grassland Reach, Redwater Basin, High Prairie, Stonepass Mountains, and Haven Valley — each with its own terrain and weather
A route choice in every region: the main path, or a longer bypass with different hazards
Forecasts for health, morale, wagon, and oxen before you commit to a day
Every cost and risk shown up front, with no unannounced instant deaths

Make Camp

A camp day gives each traveler a task. Assign them, preview the results, then spend the day.

Rest to recover health and fatigue
Forage or hunt for food, or gather timber in wooded country
Repair the wagon with a spare part or timber
Treat an illness with medicine
Scout the route ahead and sharpen your river-crossing estimates

Cross Rivers

Each crossing shows the depth, the current, the weather, and an honest risk estimate for every option — pay for a ferry, float the wagon, ford the shallows, or wait a day and scout for a better read. The outcome is decided only when you commit.

Trade at Settlements

Visit the outfitter at each named settlement to buy and sell provisions, medicine, wagon parts, ammunition, water, timber, and oxen. Add recommended essentials builds a cart for the leg ahead, but you always choose what to buy. Trading never costs a day.

Keep Your Story

The field journal records every day, choice, and outcome. The route map tracks your progress and the springs along the trail. When the expedition ends, the epilogue tells the story of the journey you led — who arrived, the routes you took, and the choices you made along the way.

Saved Automatically

Every action saves on your device the moment it happens, with a backup save for recovery
Close the app at any time and resume exactly where you left off
Export an expedition through the Files app and import it on another device

Built for iPhone and iPad

iPhone in portrait; iPad in any orientation
A warm field-journal look with original hand-drawn-style scenery
VoiceOver labels on health, morale, and supply meters, and support for larger text sizes
Optional ambient tones, action sounds, and haptics
Reduce motion, in the app or following your iOS setting

Private by Design

Westbound has no account, no server, and no network code. There is nothing for us to collect, because nothing is sent anywhere.

Fully offline — all routes, encounters, artwork, and sound are built in
No analytics, no crash reporting, no advertising, no third-party SDKs
No in-app purchases or subscriptions — outfitter cash is part of the game
Traveler names and expeditions stay on your device unless you export them

Requirements

iPhone or iPad running iOS or iPadOS 18 or later

Westbound is a fictional journey set in 1848, with original characters, writing, and artwork. It is not a historical account.

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