Desert Child

December 11, 2018 Oscar Brittain Akupara Games
Shooter Racing Role-playing (RPG) Simulator Adventure Indie Arcade
PS4 Linux PC Mac XONE Switch
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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.
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Release Date December 11, 2018
Developer Oscar Brittain
Publisher Akupara Games
Game Modes Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative, Split screen
Perspective Side view
Themes Action, Science fiction
Desert Child

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