Desert Child
Skip · Shooter · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 3, under the fair line, at $11.99.
- Length
- 2.9h 6.8h to 100%
- Value
- $4.13/hr
- Reviews
- 56% of 355 positive
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Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce 7 Series/Radeon R7 Series, 154 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
The value story
It has been discounted 69 times in the 8 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 65 percent, about 4 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is less well reviewed than 90 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Retro City Rampage™ DX ($14.99, scores 48) and Bot Vice ($4.99, scores 84) both outscore it.
More about Desert Child
Steam's global achievement data puts about 4 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 2.9-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.
2.9 hours to finish it, 7 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.3 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 2.9 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
40% start to 4% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
What players say
As a purely mechanical experience, I'm not quite sure I can recommend Desert Child. The core gameplay loop (hoverbike racing) is fun enough, but also fairly simple, and while the bike customization options add some much needed depth to it, it can't stop it from getting a little repetitive, especially given how much you need to grind in order to progress. With that said, i don't think you play Desert Child for the...
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Cite this score
Desert Child scores 3/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/844050/desert-childReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.