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Key features
• 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 tasteless bumper stickers
• 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 90’s inspired soundtrack
• Challenge your friends through local cooperative multiplayer gameplay
Rating
You’re broke, you’re 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.
You’ll deliver pizzas, collect gun parts, hunt bounties, and make some fans along the way. In between races, you’ll 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 pay rent.
Nothing’s free in Desert Child.
“A clever mix of intense shmup combat and traditional adventure games, and a killer soundtrack, Desert Child is definitely one to watch.” – IGN
“Here’s something to mollify the ceaseless march towards decrepitude.” – Rock, Paper, Shotgun
“This has a good gun.” – Rami Ismail, One half of Dutch independent studio Vlambeer
Akupara Games published and ported Desert Child for Steam, Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One.
