
- 47/100
- Players6 ratings
- 52/100
- Critics3 reviews
More scores
- Metacritic7 critic reviews
- 60/100
- Metacritic usersuser score
- 60/100
- GameFAQsJust Right/Tough
- 2.67/5
- Player reviews
- 75% positive80 reviews
- Steam Deck
- Verified
- Runs on
- Windows, Mac, Linux
- Price
- US$4.19
Where to get it

2018 · Oscar Brittain · Shooter · Racing
Desert Child
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.
- Released
- 11 December 2018
- Platforms
- PlayStation 4LinuxWindowsmacOSXbox OneNintendo Switch
- Genres
- ShooterRacingRole-playingSimulationAdventureIndieArcade
- Developers
- Oscar Brittain
- Publishers
- Akupara Games
- Modes
- Co-opLocal multiplayerMultiplayerSingle-player
- Perspective
- Side view
- Themes
- ActionScience fiction
- Engine
- GameMaker: Studio
- Age ratings
- CERO BESRB MPEGI 16USK 12
- Languages
- Chinese (Simplified), Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil) and 5 more
- Features
- Family SharingFull controller supportMulti-playerPvPRemote Play TogetherShared/split-screenShared/split-screen PvPSingle-playerSteam achievementsSteam trading cards
- Time to beat
- 3hmain story7hcompletionist
Players say
Media
Releases by platformdates and regions as published
Editions and related releases
- Included in
- Akupara: Action BundleThe Akupara Classics Bundle
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