Desert Angels
Folding Star · 2025 · Exploration, Story Rich, Walking Simulator, Third Person, Visual Novel
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About Desert Angels
Desert Angels is an open-world narrative adventure / third-person shooter(?) / 'walking sim with guns'.A century of peace in the desert is broken all at once: a stranger falls from the stars, the empire beyond the sands threatens to invade, and the machines keeping the village alive are failing. The scrapyard contains your village's hope, with so much lost technology buried in the sands. Uncover the scrapyard's memories — or blast those memories to pieces — to find it. A complete playthrough of the game takes approximately 1-3 hours. Danger looms over the distance, but none of it is immediate; there are no enemies or hazards in the scrapyard, only layers upon layers of trash and the open sands. And guns, which you can use to blow up the trash:
Once upon a time, the desert was ravaged by war, and to this day many of the weapons lying around the scrapyard are still operational. Almost everything in the game is destructible. Blast new paths, find shortcuts, and discover secrets -- or bury them forever.There's a history buried within the sands, and memories both precious and painful. Talk to the ghosts haunting the place — or ignore them. Investigate the trash and the stories that they tell — or destroy them.
What gets to be remembered, and what gets to be forgotten? The choices you make and the places you see will shape the narrative.
Once upon a time, the desert was ravaged by war, and to this day many of the weapons lying around the scrapyard are still operational. Almost everything in the game is destructible. Blast new paths, find shortcuts, and discover secrets -- or bury them forever.There's a history buried within the sands, and memories both precious and painful. Talk to the ghosts haunting the place — or ignore them. Investigate the trash and the stories that they tell — or destroy them.
What gets to be remembered, and what gets to be forgotten? The choices you make and the places you see will shape the narrative.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
This quiet, warm and contemplative story-driven game is both relaxing and deeply engaging. Desert Angels is essentially a walking-sim in which guns are used to help clear a path through a huge scrapyard in the middle of a desert - this is fun, by the way - instead of for killing people (a nice change). This is a beautiful-looking game: the heaps of discarded technology look rather beautiful, and the character portraits are gorgeous. It also has a vivid sense of place. Although you never leave the scrapyard, the huge piles of detritus - along with the lovely dialogue - brilliantly evoke the outside world, both of the village of the protagonist and the world beyond. The game’s carefully bounded setting is one of the game’s most impressive artistic features, leaving enticing space for your imagination to work in. The scrapyard itself is a joy to explore. You play as Gerel, whose story you unravel as you traverse the scrapyard triggering memories of her relationship with the only other two characters in the game. As with the artistic limitations imposed by the setting, the non-linear storytelling benefits from its small cast of characters: you really get to know them and their relatio…1 found this helpful
A slow, meditative journey through a scrapyard full of discarded machinery and poignant memories. You will repurpose old weaponry for traversal (not violence), as you blast your way through the heaps of junk, looking for a particular device that could save your village. Here, you will recall conversations between a trio of friends about their hopes for a future that has lost its luster in the eyes of their community. Would you loosen your grip on that dream to stay grounded with your people, or hold on and let it carry you far away from the life you know?1 found this helpful
This isn't my usual kind of game (I prefer platformers or rpgs, usually), but I was pleasantly surprised! The story is straightforward but emotionally rich, and the balance between "quest" waypoints, a purposefully-vague map, and just organically stumbling across things means that you really feel like you're exploring the terrain without becoming completely lost. Lowkey, I enjoyed the journey so much, I almost never used the guns lol1 found this helpful
Desert Angels is a relaxing game with a sweet but melancholic atmosphere. It tells a story about friendship, finding your place in the world, the old vs the new ways of surviving, and the tension between those who want to avoid conflict no matter the cost and those who want to stay and fight. It's a good game to absorb slowly, taking in a small storylet at a time, with some decluttering in between. The gameplay strikes a nice balance between letting you clear all the debris if you want, but having mild narrative nods to reasons you might not want to, leaving up to players to do as much or as little as they want.
A walking simulator that gains some depth with VN-style interaction memories and traversal of a destructible environment. Still a bit slow-paced for me, but I'll come back to it when I crave the "walking the desert" aesthetic.
A sentimental world to get lost in for a few hours
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