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.
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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.
The world as we know it is slowly starting to become unhabitable, as 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.
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 keep your bike running.
Nothing’s free in Desert Child.
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Cool world map, neat art style. The core gameplay loop is a racing shoot em up that gets incredibly repetitive and is really quite simple. More fun to look at than to play.
Pretty but the gameplay is a bit too repetitive for me.
Has an interesting art style and premise, but the gameplay is shallow and uninteresting.
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Game is good. Achievements are a little grindy but not impossible. The greatest part of this game is its vibes. The pixel art animation is amazing. The actual gameplay is a little slow but overall good.
Ride to Mars.
Feels like got trapped in my early days as a gamer who just got his psvita but couldn't make me feel enough to reminiscing the good old days. Try again later perhaps?
Fun Game, the jokes and artstyle was very good. The only downsides is weird racing winning line, not that important. You have some variety of races to prevent repetitiveness. The game will only feel repetitive if you're hunting the max notriety achievement.
It's too short but the unique art and vibes are worth the play. The racing starts out frustrating but gets fun the more you practice. I felt like it ended just like I was getting into it.
Dust chases the sun Speed and dreams outrun hunger Tomorrow awaits
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Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Russian, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America
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