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Can I Run Desert Child?

You’re broke, you’re hungry, and your only friends are a vintage hoverbike and a bowl of ramen noodles. In Desert Child, you are a young and talented hoverbike racer who needs to figure out how you c...

Developer Oscar BrittainPublisher Akupara GamesRelease 2018Genre Action, Indie, Racing
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System requirements

Minimum requirements

CPU3rd Gen i3/AMD FX-4100 Series
GPUGeForce 7 Series/Radeon R7 Series
RAM4 GB
Storage0.15 GB HDD
OSWindows 10

Recommended requirements

CPU5th Gen i5/1st Gen Ryzen (or better)
GPUGeForce 7 Series/Radeon R7 Series (or better)
Storage0.15 GB HDD
OSWindows 10

Verified from Steam · 19 Jul 2026 source

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Can you run Desert Child?

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Can run iton a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the processor is the tightest fit.

Desert Child is light on hardware. Its minimum, GeForce 7 Series/Radeon R7 Series, 4 GB RAM, about 0.15 GB free, sits below what an entry-level PC ships with today, so nearly any modern machine, and many older ones, will run it.

Bottleneck: CPU

Projected by resolution

ResolutionProjectionHeadroom
1080pComfortable5.31x
1440pComfortable2.99x
4KRuns well1.33x

A projection, not a measurement. We scale the published GPU requirement by pixel count, since 1440p draws 1.78 times the pixels of 1080p and 4K draws 4 times as many, then compare against RTX 3060 / Ryzen 5 build. The publisher did not state a target resolution, so 1080p is assumed as the baseline. We hold no frame rate data, so no FPS figure is claimed. Headroom above 1 means the reference machine has room to spare at that resolution.

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Frequently asked questions

Can my PC run Desert Child?

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What are the minimum system requirements for Desert Child?

The minimum requirements are CPU: 3rd Gen i3/AMD FX-4100 Series; GPU: GeForce 7 Series/Radeon R7 Series; 4 GB RAM; OS: Windows 10.

How much storage does Desert Child need?

Desert Child needs about 0.15 GB of HDD storage.

What is the bottleneck for Desert Child?

On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Desert Child is the CPU.