Denshattack! Slips to July 15, But the Tony-Hawk-With-Trains Demo Is Live Now

Somebody at Undercoders asked the obvious question: what if Tony Hawk tricked with a train? Denshattack! is the answer, and it is exactly as unhinged as it sounds.

You flip, grind and trick a commuter train through a neon-soaked Japanese dystopia, outmatching rival gangs and wrecking a shady megacorp with nothing but speed and style. It was supposed to arrive June 17. It is not arriving June 17.

Developer Undercoders and publisher Fireshine Games delayed Denshattack! to July 15, 2026, giving the team about a month of extra runway. The reason is the good kind of delay. They want stable 60 frames per second across every platform, a final bug pass, and they are using the time to add full Japanese voice acting on top.

Here is why you should not wait until July to care. The demo is playable right now on Steam, and it lines up perfectly with Steam Next Fest, which runs June 15 to 22. A delayed game with a live demo is the rare situation where waiting costs you nothing and trying costs you nothing either.

What the demo actually lets you do

The demo hands you the game’s early stages plus a dedicated trick park for drilling combos without a clock breathing down your neck. That split matters. The stages teach you the game’s flow, the park is where you learn to actually express yourself.

The core loop is pure arcade. You grind rails, wall-ride, launch off ramps and chain tricks into combos, all while staying ahead of rival gangs trying to take the tracks back. It is loud, it is fast, and it does not pretend to be anything other than a stylish score-chaser.

If you played anything in the Tony Hawk lineage, the muscle memory transfers instantly. The twist is the vehicle. A train is long, which means your grinds, manuals and combos read very differently from a skater carving the same line. Routing a whole train through a trick chain is the hook, and the demo is enough to tell you whether that hook lands for you.

Where it lands and the Game Pass angle

Denshattack! is launching almost everywhere at once. The July 15 release covers PC (Steam and the Microsoft Store), PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and S, and Nintendo Switch 2.

Two details worth knowing:

• It is a day-one Xbox Game Pass title, so subscribers can grind in without paying for it separately.
• Switch 2 buyers get an exclusive train skin as a launch bonus.

Undercoders has not announced a price yet. We will not guess one. When the store page lists it, you will see it on the card below.

Should you wishlist it now

If a score-attack trick game with a strong art style sounds like your thing, yes, and the demo makes that decision for you. Play it during Steam Next Fest, then wishlist if it clicks. A wishlist also means you get pinged the moment it launches and the moment it goes on sale.

The honest caveat is the genre. Trick games live and die on whether the controls feel good in your hands, not on a trailer. Some people bounce off the combo rhythm entirely. That is exactly the question the demo answers, so let it.

Denshattack! was one of the wilder things to surface this season. If you are still catching up, our Summer Game Fest 2026 week guide and our roundup of the best indie reveals from Summer Game Fest cover the rest of what is worth your wishlist.

The bottom line

A month-long delay for a smoother frame rate and Japanese voice acting is a trade worth making. Denshattack! now grinds onto PC, PlayStation, Xbox and Switch 2 on July 15. The demo is live today. Go find out whether tricking a train is as good an idea as it sounds.