#desert child

Desert Child is about the moments between that make the everyday grind tolerable

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by Amr (@siegarettes)

  • Desert Child
  • Developer: Oscar Brittain
  • Publisher: Akupara Games
  • PC (played via Utomik), Switch, Xbox One, PS4

Life in Desert Child was simple when I started. Spend the day racing, sell the extra power cells I didn’t need to make money and fund repairs, and finish the day off with some ramen. It wasn’t a great life, and if you thought the ramen at those hipster shops here were a rip off, wait until you eat this $15 ramen that doesn’t even fill you up. Still it was easygoing, and there wasn’t much to worry about.

Then I got it in my head that I was gonna make it big on Mars, and enter the Grand Prix. So things got complicated.

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