ActionIndieRacingRPGSimulation
Desert Child
Hooks you right away
Gets good instantly from the first hour
Started playing 40% of owners
Steam reviews 56% positive of 358
What the data shows
- 35% of first-hour reviews are positive — about the same as players with 3+ hours (35%).
- The opening is criticised more than in 91% of games we track.
- Few early reviews, so this is a rough estimate.
- Only 40% of owners have even the first achievement — the rest barely played.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 362 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 288 reviews: 3.8h for positive, 0.6h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (39.8% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
Story milestones aren't labeled yet; all achievements are listed below.
All achievements (23)
- Two Baboons at once Destroy two enemies at the same time 100%
- World’s fastest pizza Take a pizza delivery job. 26%
- I’m the Lebanese Rambo! Eat a snack pack without throwing up 23%
- Well... this is low Successfully rob a bike on the street 23%
- Aquaman talks to water, not fish Buy fish from the fishermen 20%
- Nice Have 69% hunger. 14%
- 1991 Collect all the secret tapes 13%
- Mr. Bean Eat 5 bean types. 12%
- Old Have over $9000 12%
- Moriyama-san Complete your record collection 11%
- The absolute madman Equip more than 30 power cells to a bike 11%
- Root Vegetables Beat the game 11%
- The stones on this guy Attempt to race with over 75% damage and hunger 10%
- C.R.E.A.M. Phone mom for a loan 9.8%
- Good morning videogames! Start a new game plus 9.5%
- Smarter than smoking Never buy cigarettes. 8.8%
- Tony Jones Buy every newspaper 8.8%
- The Martian is a bad movie Survive a full month on Mars. 8.0%
- Do you reckon Metro's is this good every week? Have a bad trip. Race on 4 stacks of strange beans. 7.5%
- THIS is REAL fun Chill for over an hour 7.3%
- Bean Machine Eat all the bean types 7.3%
- Vicious Fend off the police without being shot. 7.3%
- Hello, this is Pablo Achieve max notoriety, the rank of Pablo Escobar. 6.3%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-21.