DESERT CHILD Gets New Trailer And An Official Release Date As The Game Goes Gold

Developed by Oscar Brittain and published by Akupara Games, Desert Child is a pixel-art styled hoverbike racing game coming to the PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One, and Steam.

Desert Child features an interesting premise in which players will have to engage in fast-paced hoverbike races in order to get enough money to leave the planet for a better quality of life. The developer based the game's aesthetic and concept on mainstream Japanese movies like Cowboy Bebop, Akira, and Redline, and the game's soundtrack sets the mood by being a throwback to 90s music.

While at its core Desert Child is a racing title, the game is also featuring some role-playing elements, and players will also have to go on quests that will see them racing, delivering pizzas, or even throwing races to make some money. As if that wasn't enough, the game will also allow players to race their friends through local multiplayer—adding even more replay value to Desert Child.

Today, Desert Child has officially gone Gold, and we get a new, and bizarre retro-styled trailer featuring the game's developer—Oscar Brittain—som gameplay goodness, and an official release date that will see the game releasing on the 11th of December.

Take a look:

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.