Hello everyone!

Hope you don’t mind the shameless plug, but the long-awaited sequel, Nippon Marathon 2: Daijoubu!, is racing headfirst into Steam Next Fest — and you can play it RIGHT NOW with our brand-new free demo! 🎮💥

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3358880/Nippon_Marathon_2_Daijoubu/

Get ready for more Shiba Inus, ridiculous ragdoll physics, and the most bizarre obstacles Japan has to offer.

Whether you’re diving through crowds, dodging sailors swinging their anchors, or flinging yourself into the sea (on purpose?), the chaos has never looked better.

👀 Watch the Announcement Trailer!

🎮 Play the Demo Now
Jump into the action, solo or with friends. Try the demo during Next Fest and let us know what you think!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3358880/Nippon_Marathon_2_Daijoubu/

Here’s a quick list of what to expect in the Nippon Marathon 2: Daijoubu demo:

💥 Even more ridiculous ragdoll physics

🎵 Return of SoraTheTroll commentary
🍉 New weapons (yes, melons still explode)
🧍‍♂️ Your fave contestants have had a glow up
🎯 Brand new stage!
🐶 And of course... Shiba Inu

We’re especially excited about the all-new Create-a-Contestant feature — perfect for cooking up your dream racer (or an absolute nightmare).

You can play the demo solo, with friends via local co-op, or using Steam Remote Play Together.

💌 Wishlist Nippon Marathon 2: Daijoubu! to stay in the loop and be the first to know when we launch!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3358880/Nippon_Marathon_2_Daijoubu/

Thank you for all the love and support you’ve given the first game. We're beyond excited to share what’s next.

See you at the starting line !

Stay daijoubu

We’re just checking in to celebrate Steam’s Couch Co-Op Fest and the launch of a new bundle that seeks to capture the spirit of good old fashioned party game nights!

For enjoyers of slapstick Japanese gameshows, high stakes octopus racing, and interspecies shopping trolley manoeuvring the Chaotic Party Night bundle includes Nippon Marathon, Muddledash and Supermarket Shriek plus a 15% discount when you ‘complete the set’.

All three games will be on deep discount until 17th February so now is the perfect time to grab your friends and indulge in some truly unhinged couch co-op and PVP madness!

Nippon Marathon: A crazy, physics-driven, four-player marathon across Japan. Smash through offices and shopping malls and hurl fruit at your opponents in a party game unlike anything you've played before!



Muddledash: Join your friends on a mad race to the most bopping octopus party of the year. Slap your friends down with your tentacles to wrestle the present out of their hands, and make it to the finish line first.



Supermarket Shriek: Man meets goat in this award-winning couch-co-op adventure! Tackle outlandish courses, complete rewarding challenges and dodge deadly obstacles in a hectic race to the checkout! Packed with a frantic 38 stage campaign and 3 hilariously fun PvP party modes for up to 8 players.



Enjoy!

PQube and Onion Soup Interactive

It’s official—Nippon Marathon 2: Daijoubu is happening!

Hi everyone,

Get ready to duck, dodge, and dive into chaos because Nippon Marathon 2 is sprinting onto Steam Early Access in Q2 2025!



What’s New?
This sequel is bigger, crazier, and packed with even more ridiculous fun:
✨ Vastly improved graphics
✨ Brand-new marathons filled with hazards and surprises
✨ A Create-a-Contestant feature
✨ All the wild Japanese TV energy you love

And if you’re wondering what Daijoubu means—it’s Japanese for “It’s fine!” or “Everything’s under control!”... though trust us, it won’t feel like it.

💾 Wishlist now and get ready for the madness!
We cannot wait to show you more over the next few months, so for now please Wishlist Nippon Marathon 2: Daijoubu on Steam today

👉 Wishlist on Steam 👈
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3358880[/url[b]So why Early Access?[/b]With Nippon Marathon 2: Daijoubu, we’re taking a giant leap forward. Every aspect of the game has been rebuilt from the ground up, featuring improved gameplay, greatly enhanced visuals, all new hand-crafted stages and painstakingly detailed characters. Early Access provides an opportunity for us to collaborate with you, our community. Your input via Discord and the Steam Community Forums will be key to making Nippon Marathon 2 the best it can be. We will also be introducing an online mode, which we intend to develop alongside your continued feedback.We cannot wait to show you more over the next few months, so for now please Wishlist Nippon Marathon 2: Daijoubu on Steam today👉 [url]Wishlist on Steam 👈

Let’s make this the most ridiculous marathon yet! 🦞🐕

Thanks everyone!

Amy & Andy
Onion Soup Interactive

ːsteamthumbsupː Arigatou gozaimasu ːsteamthumbsupː
ːsteamthumbsupː ありがとう ございます ːsteamthumbsupː

Hello everyone!

Just a quick announcement to say that upcoming mini-game collection SUPER 56 is now available to play during the Steam Next Fest.



The aim of SUPER 56 is to get the best score possible by completing each stage as fast as you can. Sounds easy, right? Think again...

The demo will feature 10 of the craziest stages that will challenge your ability as a gamer in a variety of different genres, but the twist is your only allowed to use ONE BUTTON!!!

Here are some examples of the stages you'll face:

• Yoga pose your way through oddly shaped holes in a wall (sound familiar?),
  
• button mash a keyboard
  
• shoot apples off a guys butt with a bow and arrow,
  
• drive around a track through checkpoints and
  
• be a totally. normal. slow. hedgehog and collect apples in a truly nostalgic and 90s way.

Still want to take on the challenge?

Play 10 of the craziest stages as fast as you can, try not to die, and get your best score on the global leaderboard on SUPER 56.

Outlandish, genre-bending fun awaits you!

We cannot wait for you to try the demo, you may see some familiar faces in the demo too (we couldn't forget about our Nippon Marathon friends).
So if you like what you hear, please head over to the SUPER 56 page and give the demo a download and wishlist the game,

WISHLIST NOW:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1659150/SUPER_56/

Thanks,

Amy & Andy
(Onion Soup Interactive)

Hello Steam Community,

It's been a while, but we have some fun news for you. We're announcing our new game Press A For Achievements.

It's a mini-game collection where players earn achievements, coins and gifts by simply pressing A.

Watch the trailer below:


In this game some of your favourite Nippon Marathon characters make a return.


Race across the desert as Nishibori in the Nippon Kart minigame


Control Abe Watanabe as he presents the news


Help Snuguru put the exact amount of fuel in the car

It's a fun and crazy game as you'd expect and you can find out more and wishlist the game now on the Steam Store.

Wishlist here: Press A For Achievements on Steam


To celebrate the announcement we're also making a collection of one-of-a-kind NFTs available. This BOSS collection features the new Nippon Marathon 2 in-game models of Hazuki, Hideko, Felix and KG Park. Other collections will be made available in the future.

Don't worry, we'll never include any kind of NFT within one of our games, but to help raise funds for the continued development of Nippon Marathon 2 we're putting this artwork on OpenSea. That way fans can enjoy the artwork and help fund the continued development of the game.

See how cool they are?



We'll be creating NFTs for all our future characters, not just for Nippon Marathon 2 but for anything else too, so if you're digging the whole NFT scene these might just be worth collecting!

This is a chance to get in on the ground floor 🙂

Handsome Hazuki - Auction starts at 0.05 ETH
Felix Arizona - Auction starts at 0.05 ETH
KG Park - Auction starts at 0.05 ETH
Special! Shiro Hideko - Fixed price (buy it now), only 0.05 ETH

Check out these super awesome new renders at: Nippon Marathon 2 - The Bad Guys - Collection | OpenSea

Link: https://opensea.io/collection/nm2-the-bad-guys

So that's everything for now,

Thanks for reading, Amy and Andy

Hello everyone,

On 30th September we revealed a character intended for Nippon Marathon 2, a Canadian Mountie. What we didn't know was that the 30th September was Truth and Reconciliation Day - A Day that honours victims and survivors of Canada's residential schools, which sought to forcefully assimilate indigenous children in which the RCMP (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) were involved.

Here is some more information on Truth and Reconciliation Day: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/first-national-truth-reconciliation-day-1.6188540

A member of our Discord channel brought this to our attention and we wish to make sure that Nippon Marathon remains a fun experience for everyone.

We're sorry, we were unaware of something that is very important to many families. Our ignorance is not an excuse and we have taken time to reflect upon this.

We want to ensure that Nippon Marathon and future games are fun for everyone and is never meant to be offensive. This has caused us to take a step back and evaluate all of our NM2 characters, as the last thing we want to do is cause offence. In the original Nippon Marathon, we never assigned nationalities and we made sure that all the characters were voiced by individuals of different races and gender. We take this all very seriously.

In regards to Benton and Tony, we will be withdrawing them from the NM roster.

If you or anyone you know are experiencing pain or distress as a result of their (or someone they knows) Residential school experience, then please get in touch with the Indian Residential School Survivors Society (https://www.irsss.ca/)

We made a donation to the IRSSS this afternoon, consider making a donation to the IRSSS too.

Everyone reading this should feel free to talk to me or Amy about this or anything else. We are a safe space and our door is always open.

You can DM us on our company Twitter (https://www.twitter.com/OnionSoupLtd), my personal Twitter (https://www.twitter.com/MonAmieMadin), our discord (https://discordapp.com/invite/SpsyEHs), or even via email (http://amymadin@onionsoupinteractive.com)

Thank you

Hello everyone,


Firstly we would like to apologise for the radio silence from us. We thought we would provide you all with an update regarding all things Onion Soup Interactive, including Nippon Marathon 2.



In October 2020 I was diagnosed with Fibromyalgia, I’d been suffering with the illness for quite a long time prior to this under the impression it was an old neck injury from 2008, but after the symptoms worsened and the illness’ characteristic chronic pain and fatigue became unbearable the doctors finally gave me a label that I could work with.


By this point it had become almost impossible to work on UEDI: Shadow of the Citadel, each day I was able to do less and less until I couldn't work on the game at all, heck I couldn’t even finish a meal at the dining table without going for a lie down, taking a ton of painkillers and sleeping for as long as my body demanded (or, ironically, laid awake, super tired and totally incapable of sleep). At its worst, the illness put me in constant physical pain, reduced my brain to mush and deprived me of sleep, sometimes for weeks at a time without any kind of reprieve.


I have a pretty strong work ethic, but since creating Onion Soup Interactive with Amy my desire to work on games is so strong that it’s been really tough to sit on the sidelines and try to focus on getting better. Fibromyalgia sufferers have a lot of trouble focussing on complex tasks and game design is really, really complex. For a while I tried really hard to fight through it, but it really isn’t possible to do that. I had to take a time-out, even if it lasted for a whole year… or longer.


Our wonderful friends in the Onion Soup Discord Server have been very supportive of us, they’ve insisted that health comes before work, no matter what and I’m really happy and proud of our community.


If you don't know already, Fibromyalgia makes the body produce excess cortisol (the stress hormone) and prevents the body from creating serotonin (the happiness hormone). You can imagine how taxing this is on mental health, Amy continues to do an amazing job of helping me through it. I know it isn’t easy for her. Amy, my parents, and our dog help keep my mental health in check. If you’re suffering with any form of mental health issue I absolutely insist that you must find some kind of help and support. You might spend a lot of time thinking the loneliest and darkest thoughts but making a genuine human connection with someone who really cares can help you drag yourself out the deepest of holes, I promise!


Since then I’ve tried so many things to help ease the symptoms of the illness, I cut gluten, caffeine, sugar and alcohol from my diet (my favourite things used to be coffee, pizza, whiskey and salted caramel brownies😭 😭 😭 . I had one year of weekly physiotherapy, 6 months of acupuncture, opioids, anti-inflammatories, supplements, exercise routines, meditation, and osteopathy. You name it, i’ve probably done it! I’m writing a detailed guide for other sufferers which may be of some help and it’ll be posted soon.


Finally, after a really long time I’m starting to feel slightly better. For a few weeks now I’ve been able to do a bit of work again, mostly art but also some work in Unity work too.


Amy and I agreed that jumping back into UEDI or Nippon 2 development would probably be too difficult for me right now and there would be a risk of triggering a flare up of symptoms and taking 10 steps back.


So instead we’ve been putting together a new ‘micro game’ collection. This allows Amy to learn more Unity skills and is also a much more low-pressure project.


We’re almost ready to share it with you, maybe in a couple of months. Before then though we’ll be running a closed beta, so if you’re interested just mention it to us in our Discord.

Join the Discord here: https://discordapp.com/invite/SpsyEHs

Oh, what the heck, here are a few GIFs just for fun.







We will be keeping the name a surprise until it's official announcement, but we are VERY excited to share it with you all. Believe me, keeping this project under wraps has been very difficult.


We’ll be working on our new project for a little while longer, once we have that wrapped up and assuming I’m able to maintain my health, we’ll be getting back to the game. We’ll be making a conscious effort to keep it a tighter and more focussed action game than originally planned. We want to get the coolest and most fun gameplay aspects ready for you to enjoy so as not to risk the game getting stuck in development hell again.

You Want Nippon Marathon 2?

I made Nippon Marathon mostly by myself with a little help from Amy, as she was first picking up the fundamentals of art and game design. It was very difficult and stressful, so when the time comes for us to begin working on Nippon Marathon 2 as a full-time project, we’ll be hiring some help. We’re not a big studio and we don’t have a lot of resources but thankfully there’s enough love for Nippon Marathon that we believe a publisher is willing to cover the expenses. This means I can focus of work that’s less mentally taxing, I’ve really enjoyed brushing up on my Maya 3D modelling and ZBrush 3D Sculpting skills recently and I think this is now a real strength of mine.

I wish we could start NM2 tomorrow, so much that I made a new character. She’s a Canadian Mountie called Benton who rides her trusty ‘horse’ Toby.

Here’s a render of them, please let us know what you think!

Nippon Marathon CD OST now available

We’ve had requests for a physical Nippon Marathon OST for aaaaages, and along with many things in the world it was horribly delayed by the Coronavirus pandemic. Anyway, it’s just been released by City Connection and is available to order from Clarice Shop. The CD features the music from the original game as well as tracks exclusive to the Arcade Edition. It also features a written note from us (in Japanese).

Although the site is in Japanese and primarily for the Japanese market, Buyee supports international shipping from this store.

Buy Now: {LINK REMOVED}https://bit.ly/NipponMarathonCD




It has finally been released! Yay! The pandemic literally sucked the life out of the arcade industry but we’re seeing signs of life creeping back in now and you might start to see some of them in the wild soon. There’s a huge Japanese and US chain called 1UP where the game’s been on test. Then there’s a bunch of them in Japan and Hawaii too. Can’t we go and live there?

If you fancy a copy of Nippon Marathon Turbo for yourself, then they'e available to purchase from our arcade publisher, exA-Arcadia. Check it out here: {LINK REMOVED}https://bit.ly/nmturbo

If you are attending the "Made in Asia" Convention in Brussels this October, then you can actually play the game yourself during the convention. Arcade Belgium are hosting a NM Turbo tournament at the convention. Be one of the first people in Europe to play Nippon Marathon Turbo. How exciting.




During the pandemic, we commissioned a piece of art for our website from our community member, KYLEZOOKI. We are super pleased with the results and recommend that you all go and support this amazing artist. Not only does it include myself and Amy, our Master of Ceremonies, Buster, and Company Flower, Mocha, were also included in the piece.

Go and follow him immediately on Twitter: https://twitter.com/KYLEZOOKI091

Phew that was a long one...

Again thank you all for your continued support, and thanks to everyone who continues to buy us a coffee. It's very much appreciated, and if you want to buy us one today, mine's a decaf oat latte; https://www.buymeacoffee.com/nipponmarathon2

Remember to drop by our Discord and say hello, everyone loves chatting about games, anime and other fun stuff and everyone’s welcome.

So that's everything for now,

Stay safe!

Andy, Amy, Buster & Mocha

Ah, summer. Sundresses, ice cream…and, of course, some crazy discounts on games! With everything from pixel platformers to furr-tastic RPGs, there is something for everyone in the PQube catalogue. Check out some of our top picks below!

Gal*Gun Returns

PANTIES! Got your attention? It’s ok, your secret’s safe with us. Escape hordes of amorous schoolgirls in infamous ecchi rail-shooter Gal*Gun Returns – now 20% off.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1425730/

Inertial Drift

Let off some steam (!) with this innovative twin-stick racing game, now at 33% off!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1184480/

Cat Quest II

Cats or dogs? Single player or co-op? No need to pick- we’ve got both in this wildly popular action-RPG! Now at 45% off.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/914710/

Songbird Symphony

Guide orphaned chick ‘Birb’ through a beautifully crafted pixel world in this rhythm-action platformer: now 55% off.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/909820/

Die After Sunset

OK, this one isn’t in the sale, but we think you’ll love it all the same. Battle for Earth and travel through time this newly announced 3rd person action roguelite. But be careful! You never know what’s lurking in the shadows…

Wishlist now to be the first to get updates on Die After Sunset, coming soon to Steam Early Access.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1440010/

The update you've all been waiting for is here!

Online matchmaking, PS4 support and custom character skins are coming to Nippon Marathon 2!



Online Mode
Play just for fun in Casual Versus or try to be the best in the world by improving your rank in Competitive Versus.

You'll be glad to know the Go-Go Trolley Bowling and L.O.B.S.T.E.R party games are making a return with online capability too.

This is a game-changer for fans of online party games. We've felt that Nippon Marathon has always been the closest thing to a Takeshi's Castle (MXC) or Total Wipeout video game, and the inclusion of online support will bring the game to a much wider audience and be fun for everyone to play!

Kickstarter Exclusive Custom Skins
We've previously mentioned this before, but the in-game shop will be stocked full of custom items and character skins for you to unlock, hopefully adding to the Nippon Marathon experience.

Backers will automatically receive exclusive "BAKA" branded skins for all main characters and an exclusive nameplate for use online. A preview of these can be seen in the video above. YAY!

PS4 Support Announced
The two-person team has been inundated with calls to bring Nippon Marathon 2 to Playstation following the first game's success on PS+ Japan earlier this year. Fans will be happy to know that Onion Soup Interactive has added support for the platform to its development schedule.

Please share share share this with everyone you know!

I know a lot of fans were holding out for this one, so please share this news with everyone you can. We want to shout from the rooftops that NIPPON MARATHON 2 HAS ONLINE MODE!

Share now:

• Twitter: https://ctt.ac/c6D55
  
• Twitter JP: https://ctt.ac/5ZbbK
  
• Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/onionsoupinteractive/nippon-marathon-2?ref=6z4r4y
  
• Facebook JP: http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/onionsoupinteractive/nippon-marathon-2?ref=6z4r4y

Thanks again for your support!

So that's everything for now!

Amy & Andy