The Denshattack! demo sees you kickflipping, grinding, and joyriding a Ferris wheel into an active volcano on the world’s most tubular commute

Denshattack! is a game that dares to ask the question: “What if you could do a kickflip as a train?” It’s a bold and daring concept, and one that has never been explored before. The game is set in a post-apocalyptic world where most of humanity is huddled under super-safe eco domes after the climate crisis ravaged the earth. But you, a train driver delivering ramen, find out that there’s a new punk movement building—a movement entirely based on doing totally tubular, OSHA-violating stunts.

The gameplay of Denshattack! is a unique blend of the 3D Sonic games (the good ones), Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, and EA’s Skate. Despite being on rails, the game has a surprising amount of variety and freedom. You can swap tracks, jump, and slam down to avoid deadly track obstacles. You can drift-turn around corners to build up speed, honk your horn to scare off bats or signal gates to open, and perform tricks with your right stick (you should be playing this on a controller) with movements a la Skate.

The demo levels give you a taste of what the game has to offer, but if you dip into the trick park, you’ll see that Denshattack! has even more tricks up its sleeve. Rail-grinding, wall-riding, tunnels, manuals, and multi-track drifting are just some of the things you can do in the game. This produces a surprisingly freeform movement system, with tons of tracks to flip between that fly at you with alarming speed.

Denshattack! has a lot in common with speedrunning games, in that a lot of getting good at a level involves memorizing the layout. And while the obstacles can come at you a bit fast, crashing your train doesn’t set you that far back, allowing you to get familiarity with whichever bit of the circuit you’re having issues with.

As far as vibes go, it’s all looking very Jet Set Radio, and that’s a compliment—colorful, cel-shaded punk absurdity, adorable character designs, and a zany attitude which, at one point, saw me joyriding a Ferris wheel into an active volcano. If the full game keeps up this level of creativity, it’s sure to be a riot. You can play the Denshattack! demo for free on Steam.

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– “What if you could do a kickflip as a train?”
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– “Rail-grinding, wall-riding, and multi-track drifting on a train.”
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– “Joyriding a Ferris wheel into an active volcano.”
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