Denshattack combines Japanese trains and extreme sports, and if it sounds familiar its because a similar game came out for Dreamcast just last year. Undercoders’ new game is basically a Tony Hawk‑style extreme sports title where your “board” is an over‑animated commuter train, and every rail line through Japan is a potential combo route.
Barcelona dev and director David Jaumandreu is open about the obsession here: he adores Japan’s rail system, from the Yamanote Line to the Shinkansen, and wanted to build a game that treats trains as main characters instead of set dressing. The team has been at it for around three years, pulling in visual inspiration from Jet Set Radio, Hi‑Fi Rush, and Persona, and bringing Sonic Mania composer Tee Lopes in for the soundtrack.
On the gameplay side, you drive trains like a skateboard. Levels are large, handcrafted spaces based on different Japanese prefectures, each laid out to roughly follow real rail networks while still functioning as open “parks.” You flip, grind, wall‑ride, and chain tricks to build huge combos, but you also have to avoid derailing and manage speed while racing rivals or tackling score‑attack objectives.
There is a full story mode layered on top of that. Set in a near‑future dystopia, abandoned railways are used by underground crews for illegal trick contests, and you are part of a rebel group pushing back against the Miraidō megacorp that controls the tracks. It leans on shonen anime staples like found family and rival crews who eventually become allies, with fully voiced dialogue in English and Japanese.
The trains themselves are heavily customizable and deliberately expressive: Undercoders deforms and animates them like anime characters so they “emote” while doing tricks, and boss mechs get the same treatment. Denshattack is planned for spring 2026 on PC, Xbox Series (including Game Pass), and PlayStation, and it is also confirmed for this month’s Convergence Games Showcase if you want a closer look.
Source: IGN
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