The bus in this game sure went through a desert, alright. The same can be said for what I'd describe what my brain felt like after 5+ minutes of playing this.




Hey guys, Peter Griffin here to explain the joke. You see, backloggd user Okaten previously wrote a review on Crazy Bus (https://www.backloggd.com/u/Okaten/review/1653516/) that was structured very similarly to this review of Desert Bus. He calls his brain a desert because he felt nothing through those 10 minutes of playing it, just like how there's usually nothing in a real desert.

Desert Bus is a game that has you holding down one button for a really, really, really long time.
That's it. That's the game.
Oh, but you also can't just put a weight on a button and call it a day, you have to constantly steer it so it doesn't go offroad.
Well, it's a shitty game that was made shitty on purpose. Go figure, right?

Colorblindness Rating: A
Good news, the pain of this game can be shared even to the colorblind.

Don't bother with this game, just go play something else.

Every year since 2013, a French charitable event called "Desert Bus de l'espoir" (Desert Bus of hope) is held in order to receive donations for the Petit Prince association that finances dreams of children suffering from terminal illness. In 2022, over 70 609€ were collected.

While it would be easy to make fun of the "haha bus bad" game without taking into consideration the story behind its existence, I just really wanted to point out how something originally made as a piece of satire and novelty against the assumption that video games were too violent turned into such a symbol of support and empathy.