Padel Rivals lands at OWN Valencia 2026
Three days at Spain's biggest gaming festival
We are barely back from Barcelona and we are already packing again. This Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 3, 4 and 5 July, Krokanti Games will be at OWN Valencia 2026, the Open World Now Festival, the largest gaming, esports and digital culture festival in Spain. And we are bringing the Padel Rivals demo with us.
You will find us at the Valencia Game City stand, the spot we won as one of the three winning projects at the Coworking EOI Demoday. Three full days, the game running live, a controller in your hands.
What is OWN Valencia
If you do not know it yet, OWN Valencia turns Feria València into the great epicentre of gaming and digital culture in the country. The numbers give you the scale: more than 2,000 gamers and over 20,000 video game and technology fans across three days.
The programme mixes video games, esports, music, digital culture, gastronomy and family activities, with official finals and tournaments like Brawl Stars Challengers Spain, the CS2 Spanish circuit, OWN Masters: Rainbow Six Siege and the Fortnite Unreal Series, plus concerts, content creator zones and live podcasts.
Opening hours are 11:00 to 22:00 on Friday and Saturday, and 11:00 to 20:00 on Sunday. Tickets start at around 14 euros for a single day. Everything is at Feria València, on Avenida de les Fires.
A different test for Padel Rivals
Here is what makes this stop special for us. At the Padel World Summit in Barcelona, almost everyone who sat in front of the game already lived and breathed padel. The feedback was gold, but it came from one very specific audience.
OWN Valencia is the opposite. Here we put Padel Rivals in front of gamers of every kind: people who play padel and people who have never picked up a paddle, players who only care about whether the game feels good in their hands. That is exactly the test an arcade game needs to pass.
Our goal for the weekend is simple: watch real players play, listen, and take notes. Does the game click for someone who came for a shooter or a fighting game? Does the arcade feel land with a general gaming crowd? This is the kind of feedback that shapes the road to early access.
Come and play
If you are in València this weekend, drop by the Valencia Game City stand and grab a controller. We will be there the three days, happy to talk, happy to lose a few points against you, happy to hear exactly what you think.
And if you cannot make it, you can still support the game from home, which honestly helps us just as much:
The Steam wishlist is still the single most useful thing you can do for Padel Rivals right now. One click, free, and it pushes us closer to launch.
See you at Feria València, 3, 4 and 5 July.
The Krokanti Games Team
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