Denshattack! demo turns trains into kickflipping, grinding chaos

Denshattack! asks the bold question, 'What if you could do a kickflip as a train?' Its Steam Next Fest demo lets you try, summed up bluntly as, 'You'd crash about as much as you'd expect but it's sick as hell.' The pitch drops you into a world where most of humanity shelters under super-safe eco domes after the climate crisis ravaged the earth.

You play a train driver delivering ramen who discovers a punk movement built entirely on totally tubular, OSHA-violating stunts. Gameplay blends the 3D Sonic games (the good ones), Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, and EA's Skate. Even while literally on rails you can swap tracks, jump, slam down to avoid deadly track obstacles, drift-turn to build speed, honk your horn to scare bats or signal gates to open, and perform tricks with the right stick — best experienced on a controller.

The demo’s trick park adds rail-grinding, wall-riding, tunnels, manuals and multi-track drifting, producing a surprisingly freeform movement system with lots of fast track-switching.

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