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…
Desert Child is an adventure developed by Oscar Brittain, released 11 December 2018 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Linux.
What Desert Child is
Desert Child is an adventure game developed by Oscar Brittain and released in 2018. It was published by Akupara Games. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on GameMaker: Studio.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.
How it was received
Desert Child holds a critic score of 52 out of 100. That places it above 10% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 17 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Desert Child launched on 11 December 2018, within three weeks of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Gris, Battlefield V and Dusk. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, Gris, Battlefield V, Dusk.
Official trailer
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