You are a hungry, young hoverbike racer who needs to get off Earth before it E-X-P-L-O-D-E-S. Hunt bounties, throw races, and do whatever you can to get to Mars and win the Grand Prix.
Youre broke, youre hungry, and your only friends are a vintage hoverbike and a bowl of ramen noodles.
In Desert Child, you are a young and talented hoverbike racer who needs to figure out how you can scrape enough cash together through racing and odd jobs to punch your one way ticket to the Red Planet to enter the biggest race in the universe, the Grand Prix.
The world as we know it is slowly starting to become unhabitable, and many people on Earth have moved to Mars for a better quality of life, thanks to a government subsidy that assisted in relocating citizens by providing affordable passage. After several years of running this program, the government announces that in two weeks, tickets to Mars would go up in price, making the exodus to the Red Planet unobtainable for regular citizens.
Youll deliver pizzas, collect gun parts, hunt bounties, and make some fans along the way. In between races, youll explore colorful cities where you can repair and upgrade your bike, dine on the local cuisine, and fight your way through gangsters, bounty hunters, and all sorts of interesting characters, just so that you can have a decent meal and keep your bike running.
Nothings free in Desert Child.
Hunt bounties, deliver pizzas, throw races – do anything you can to earn cash
Explore a pixel-art solar system inspired by Cowboy Bebop, Akira and Redline
Customize your beloved bike with Guns, Amplifiers and shameless advertising
Dine on a range of interplanetary cuisine with sweet buffs to help you win
Master deep combat and racing mechanics and define your own style
Race, shoot, and get better Designed for replayability, with secrets that keep you coming back
Chill to an original lo-fi hip-hop soundtrack
Challenge your friends through local multiplayer
Desert Child is utterly unique. It blends the moreish action of hoverbike racing with an amazing DOS inspired aesthetic. Its a short and sweet racing RPG that plays incredibly well in short bursts. Well worth picking up if you fancy a modernised retro title that does something different.
80 – PlayStation Country
Desert Child is a real tribute to some of the greatest in 90s pop culture, and it is also a good and innovative racing game.
78 – SpazioGames
This relaxing arcade game with some light micromanagement gave me the joy of figuring out its mechanics by myself and kept me blissfully stuck in the one more race syndrome.
75 – CD-Action
