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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Discounts
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0/day in the week to Sep 3 → 0.14/day in the week after.
About
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.
Genres
Sums Steam only; PlayStation, Xbox, GOG, Nintendo publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SteamYou are here | $11.99 | 356reviews | 56% | — | $135.2K |
| $11.99 | 202ratings | 73% | — | not modelled | |
Engagement
Reviews
Themes across 43 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
VIBE that's the word i would choose to describe this game, it's just a vibe. The gameplay is is very nice yet basic I wish their was a indicator on when the race was going to end though, i kind of just had to guest on when i needed to take lead based on how far along i was in the race. Music is good, when racing it's pumping while it's super chill when I'm in the cities. Graphics look like they came straight out of the Atari Jaguar era and that's really nice selling point, even though the Jaguar flopped lol. Happy its has 2 player so i can play against my friends so that's a plus too. Story is pretty bare bones though but i kind off like it since it fits this games whole chill vibes esthetic. Good deal while on sale for 4.19$. Overall Score 6.5/10 [Gameplay 12/20. Graphics 13/20. Music 13/20. Story 10/20. Replayability 15/20.]
Has an interesting art style and premise, but the gameplay is shallow and uninteresting.
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For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,400 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
Stats
All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Japanese, Russian, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America
| $1.79−85% |
| 98ratings |
| 84% |
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| not modelled |
| $4.19−65% | 36ratings | 58% | — | not modelled |
| $2.99−75% | — | — | — | not modelled |
Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 43 reviews with recorded playtime.
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um bom jogo o problema que é muito curto
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.
Would be nice if I could play without a controller, but you don't have any keybind settings... TRASH
Dust chases the sun Speed and dreams outrun hunger Tomorrow awaits
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?
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.
Had really low expectations and ended up being a really great game
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Players by region
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