Review: Desert Child – A Fantastic Retro Racer That's Way Too Short

Eat my red dust.

Desert Child is pretty special. Stylistically, it’s a magical experience, its ‘90s adventure game art style mixing well with an absolutely fantastic soundtrack. Set on Olympia, a city on a fully-colonised Mars, in a not-to-distant future, its world is an intoxicating mix of cultures, from Aussie beach bums to Middle Eastern markets.

But for all the fun that you can have in Desert Child roaming its beautiful pixelated environments as a chilled soundtrack plods along, it’s still a racing game at heart. Though these races seem chaotic at first, with obstacles and explosions filling the screen as you try to dodge them while still beating your opponent to the finish line, you soon get the hang of it.

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