''Cuphead'' is a
run-and-gun video game developed and published by Studio MDHR. The game follows the titular Cuphead who, in a
deal with the Devil after losing a game at the Devil's casino, is sent on a quest to repossess the souls of runaway debtors as payment for Cuphead's loss. In the game, up to two players control Cuphead and/or his brother Mugman to fight through several levels and
boss fights; the game does not have a rigid narrative structure. As the game progresses, the protagonist acquires more power and abilities, eventually threatening the Devil himself. Players, however, can only equip a limited number of these abilities at a given time.
The game's creators, brothers Chad and Jared Moldenhauer, took inspiration from the
rubber hose style of the
golden age of American animation
The golden age of American animation was a period in the history of U.S. animation that began with the popularization of sound cartoons in 1928 and gradually ended in the late 1960s, where theatrical animated shorts began losing popularity to the ...
and the
surrealist qualities of works of
Walt Disney Animation Studios,
Fleischer Studios
Fleischer Studios () is an American animation studio founded in 1929 by brothers Max and Dave Fleischer, who ran the pioneering company from its inception until its acquisition by Paramount Pictures, the parent company and the distributor of i ...
,
Warner Bros. Cartoons
Warner Bros. Cartoons, Inc. was an American animation studio, serving as the in-house animation division of Warner Bros. during the Golden Age of American animation. One of the most successful animation studios in American media history, it was ...
,
MGM Cartoon Studio and
Walter Lantz Productions. Reminiscent of the '30s aesthetics and
Jazz Age, the game is noted for its animation and soundtrack: all in-game assets used hand-drawn animation with deliberate human imperfections, and the soundtrack was written for and recorded with a full jazz ensemble.
''Cuphead'' had a preview at
E3 2014 and was released in 2017 as a
timed-exclusive for
Microsoft's
Windows and
Xbox One, with ports to other systems subsequently added. The game was a commercial success, selling two million copies within two weeks of release and six million in two years. ''Cuphead'' received widespread critical acclaim, with praises for its art style, gameplay, soundtrack, and difficulty; the latter was singled out for scrutiny, with multiple outlets naming ''Cuphead'' one of the hardest video games ever created. The game won several awards, including three
Game Awards, three
D.I.C.E. Awards
The D.I.C.E. Awards (formerly the Interactive Achievement Awards) is an award show in the video game industry started in 1998 and commonly referred to in the industry as the "video games Academy Awards, Oscar". The awards are arranged by the Ac ...
, and a
British Academy Games Award. A
DLC expansion, entitled ''Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course'', was released on June 30, 2022. A
Netflix animated series based on the game, ''
The Cuphead Show!'', premiered in February 2022.
Gameplay
''Cuphead''s gameplay is centered on continual
boss fights, interspersed with
run-and-gun levels. Each is housed in one of four worlds, with the final fight against the Devil. Each boss fight includes a simple, normal, and expert difficulty mode (with the exception of the final two bosses, which lack a simple mode). Defeating a boss on normal mode is required to progress through the game and unlocks expert mode for that particular level. Most boss battles take place on land, although some involve player characters piloting
aeroplane
An airplane or aeroplane (informally plane) is a fixed-wing aircraft that is propelled forward by thrust from a jet engine, propeller, or rocket engine. Airplanes come in a variety of sizes, shapes, and wing configurations. The broad spectr ...
s and play like a side-scrolling
shoot 'em up. The game includes
role-playing elements and a branching
level
Level or levels may refer to:
Engineering
*Level (instrument), a device used to measure true horizontal or relative heights
*Spirit level, an instrument designed to indicate whether a surface is horizontal or vertical
*Canal pound or level
*Regr ...
sequence.
Player characters have
infinite lives, maintaining all equipment between deaths.
Equippable weapons and special abilities, referred to as Charms, can be purchased from Porkrind's Emporium, an in-game shop, using coins found in levels and the overworld. Player characters can use a slapping parry attack on objects marked in pink to various effects, the most important of them being a super meter charge that enables more powerful attacks. The super meter is represented by a row of five playing cards, and can also be charged through attacking or Charm effects. An enhanced attack can be executed at the cost of one card, with its particular form determined by the currently equipped weapon. The most powerful strikes, or Super Arts, require the Super Meter to be fully charged and will completely drain it upon use. Three Super Arts are available, one in each of the first three worlds; to earn each one, the player must enter a
mausoleum
A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the interment space or burial chamber of a deceased person or people. A mausoleum without the person's remains is called a cenotaph. A mausoleum may be consid ...
and parry a horde of ghosts to stop them from reaching an urn at the center of the screen.
After completing a level, the players are ranked with a grade based on performance, determined by the time taken to complete the level, damage taken, number of parried attacks, and the number of times part of the super meter was used, in addition to the level difficulty. The levels are accessible through a top-down perspective
overworld with its own secret areas.
The game has a two-player local
cooperative mode,
in which either player character can return to the game after being killed if the other one parries his soul before it rises off the screen. Cuphead's brother, Mugman, acts as an alternative skin and potential co-op partner within the game. The
DLC expansion, ''Delicious Last Course'', adds a new area with its own campaign, including new bosses, weapons, and Charms; a third playable character is also added, Ms. Chalice, who replaces either Cuphead or Mugman when equipped with the Astral Cookie Charm. Ms. Chalice has her own unique set of moves, including a double jump, an invincible roll maneuver, and a parry dash.
Plot
''Don't Deal With the Devil''
On Inkwell Isle, Cuphead and his brother, Mugman, are two fun-loving children who live under the watchful eye of Elder Kettle. Despite Elder Kettle's warnings, the brothers wander off to the Devil's Casino and begin playing
craps. When they go on a winning streak, the Devil appears and
makes a deal, offering to give them all the money in the casino if they win the next roll and threatening to take their souls if they lose. Cuphead accepts the offer and loses by rolling
snake eyes. As he and Mugman beg for mercy, the Devil offers them another deal: if they can collect the "soul contracts" from his runaway debtors by midnight the next day, the brothers will be spared. Cuphead and Mugman return to Elder Kettle, who gives them a magic potion that allows them to fire blasts of energy from their fingers, but also warns them that the debtors may not turn in their soul contracts willingly.
The brothers travel around the neighboring Inkwell Isles, fighting the debtors in order to obtain their contracts. As they enter the second Isle, Elder Kettle notices that the duo are getting stronger from their battles, and urges them to "do the right thing" when they meet the Devil. After Cuphead and Mugman enter the third Isle, King Dice, the casino's manager, reports the cup brothers' progress to the Devil. King Dice soon becomes suspicious that they are up to something, to which the Devil replies that there is nothing to worry about; if they were to try anything, he would be waiting for them.
The brothers soon collect all the soul contracts and return to the Devil's Casino. King Dice stops them, saying that their success has caused him to lose a bet and has the duo battle his minions as well as himself. After defeating King Dice, the brothers confront the Devil. If the player chooses to turn over the contracts, Cuphead and Mugman are transformed into the Devil's demonic lackeys and the game ends. If they refuse, the Devil becomes furious at the brothers for not upholding their end of the bargain and attacks them. Cuphead and Mugman defeat the Devil, burn the contracts, and return home. Learning that they have nothing to fear from the Devil anymore, the former debtors honor the brothers for their heroic actions.
''The Delicious Last Course''
After freeing a spirit known as the Legendary Chalice from one of the main game's mausoleums, Cuphead and Mugman receive a summons from her to visit a distant fourth Inkwell Isle. Once they arrive, Chalice demonstrates an "Astral Cookie" which allows her to trade places with the brother who eats it, turning him into a ghost and temporarily bringing her back to life as Ms. Chalice. The cookie's inventor, Chef Saltbaker, unveils his recipe for a special dessert known as the Wondertart, which has the power to give Chalice her own permanent body. Saltbaker notes that its required ingredients are held by several antagonistic inhabitants of the Island, and the brothers set out to collect them with Chalice's help.
Once they return to the bakery with the ingredients, Saltbaker reveals that the Wondertart requires a living soul baked into it to work, and that he intends to use the Wondertart for himself and conquer the astral plane. To this end, he has captured the soul of one
protagonist
A protagonist () is the main character of a story. The protagonist makes key decisions that affect the plot, primarily influencing the story and propelling it forward, and is often the character who faces the most significant obstacles. If a st ...
, who may be any character not in play upon reaching the bakery, and further plans to kill the other two cups to resume his scheme. The remaining two engage Saltbaker in battle and defeat him, resulting in the destruction of the bakery and leaving no way to finish the Wondertart. Unwilling to let anyone else give up their soul for her benefit, Chalice decides to remain a ghost and continue searching for a way to return to life, while still offering to assist Cuphead and Mugman as needed via the Astral Cookie. In the epilogue, Saltbaker is arrested for his crimes and sentenced to community service. Saltbaker makes amends for his actions, and rebuilds his bakery, now a changed person much to everyone's joy.
Development

''Cuphead'' is the first game by Studio MDHR, a Canadian
indie game development
An indie game, short for independent video game, is a video game typically created by individuals or smaller development teams without the financial and technical support of a large game publisher, in contrast to most "AAA" (triple-A) games. ...
studio founded by brothers Chad and Jared Moldenhauer. The brothers wound up remortgaging their house to finish the game.
The game was written by
Evan Skolnick; additional animation work was contributed by Jake Clark, with programming led by Tony Coculuzzi.
Its development began in 2010 using the
Unity game engine, and it was developed from the brothers' homes in
Oakville, Ontario and
Regina, Saskatchewan, respectively.
It was inspired by cartoons from the early days of
golden age of American animation
The golden age of American animation was a period in the history of U.S. animation that began with the popularization of sound cartoons in 1928 and gradually ended in the late 1960s, where theatrical animated shorts began losing popularity to the ...
such as Disney and Fleischer Studios, along with cartoonists
Ub Iwerks,
Grim Natwick, and
Willard Bowsky.
Chad Moldenhauer called Fleischer Studios "the
magnetic north of his art style", and particularly sought to mimic their "subversive and surrealist" elements.
The Moldenhauers watched many early golden-age cartoons in their youth, which Chad Moldenhauer describes as happenstance, based on gifts and
VHS compilations. Among other siblings in their Regina, Saskatchewan childhood home, the two shared
aesthetic taste and interest in gameplay. They attempted a game in the style of ''Cuphead'' in 2000, but lacked the tools to continue. The brothers decided to try again following the success of the
indie game
An indie game, short for independent video game, is a video game typically created by individuals or smaller development teams without the financial and technical support of a large game publisher, in contrast to most "AAA" (triple-A) games. ...
''
Super Meat Boy
''Super Meat Boy'' is a 2010 platform game designed by Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes under the collective name of "Team Meat". It was self-published as the successor to ''Meat Boy'', a 2008 flash game designed by McMillen and Jonathan McEnte ...
'', which was released in 2010. The character that became Cuphead descended from a 1936 Japanese propaganda animated film featuring a character with a teacup for a head. The Moldenhauers emulated the animation because they found it strange, and "right away it stuck".
Before settling on him as the main character, the brothers had created around one hundred fifty different character designs, including a
kappa
Kappa (uppercase Κ, lowercase κ or cursive ; el, κάππα, ''káppa'') is the 10th letter of the Greek alphabet, representing the voiceless velar plosive sound in Ancient and Modern Greek. In the system of Greek numerals, has a value o ...
wearing a
tophat
A top hat (also called a high hat, a cylinder hat, or, informally, a topper) is a tall, flat-crowned hat for men traditionally associated with formal wear in Western dress codes, meaning white tie, morning dress, or frock coat. Traditionally m ...
and characters with a plate or fork for a head.
Their animation techniques are similar to those of these cartoons.
Chad Moldenhauer, who had previously worked in graphic design, hand-drew the animations and painted the backgrounds using
watercolors, colorizing them in
Photoshop. The gameplay's
frame rate
Frame rate (expressed in or FPS) is the frequency (rate) at which consecutive images (frames) are captured or displayed. The term applies equally to film and video cameras, computer graphics, and motion capture systems. Frame rate may also be ca ...
is 60 frames per second, while the animation runs at 24 per second, which is the standard in American film. Chad Moldenhauer saw the deliberately included human imperfections of their art design as a reaction to the perfectionism of modern
pixel art. Jared Moldenhauer worked on other aspects of the game, and they discussed gameplay design together. Their studio hired a Romanian developer, a Brooklyn animator, and an Ontario jazz musician for the project. They sought to use recording processes vintage to that era.
The score was composed by Kristofer Maddigan and consists of fifty one tracks performed by
jazz and
big band musicians.
The Moldenhauers described ''Cuphead'' as having a difficult, "
retro game
Retrogaming, also known as classic gaming and old school gaming, is the current playing and collection of obsolete personal computers, consoles, and video games. Usually, retrogaming is based upon systems that are outmoded or discontinued, alt ...
" core for its emphasis on gameplay over plot.
''Kill Screen'' described the developers as "obsessed" with run-and-gun fundamentals of "animations and exploits and
hitboxes".
They made multiple revisions to many gameplay elements, including how gameplay actions feel at the edges of platforms and how long players are disabled after receiving damage.
They planned multiple
difficulty levels
Game balance is a branch of game design that is described as a mathematical-algorithmic model of a game’s numbers, game mechanics, and relations between the two. Game balance consists of adjusting values to create a certain user experience. Play ...
and chose to abandon a typical
damsel in distress
The damsel in distress is a recurring narrative device in which one or more men must rescue a woman who has either been kidnapped or placed in general peril. Kinship, love, or lust (or a combination of those) gives the male protagonist the motiv ...
plot for one where Cuphead perpetually creates trouble for himself.
The developers planned to surpass the
Guinness World Record
''Guinness World Records'', known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as ''The Guinness Book of Records'' and in previous United States editions as ''The Guinness Book of World Records'', is a reference book published annually, listing world ...
for number of boss battles in a run-and-gun game by having more than 30, compared to the record's 25 in ''
Alien Soldier''.
The game's implementation and visual design, combined with the limited number of staff, was Studio MDHR's biggest challenge, and as such the Moldenhauers went to great lengths to complete the game, even remortgaging their house in order to finance it.
Release
Though the game was shown during the Xbox press event of
Electronic Entertainment Expo
E3 (short for Electronic Entertainment Expo or Electronic Entertainment Experience in 2021) is a trade event for the video game industry. The Entertainment Software Association (ESA) organizes and presents E3, which many developers, publisher ...
2014 to audience approval, it was not available to play and was estimated to be 40 percent complete. It was expected to be extended via
expansion packs
with 10 to 15 bosses each,
similar to how ''
Sonic & Knuckles'' added atop the ''Sonic'' series.
''Cuphead'' was released on September 29, 2017 for
Windows and
Xbox One, and it supports
Xbox Play Anywhere.
King Features Syndicate
King Features Syndicate, Inc. is a American content distribution and animation studio, consumer product licensing and print syndication company owned by Hearst Communications that distributes about 150 comic strips, newspaper columns, editoria ...
has the licensing rights to merchandise and assorted paraphernalia.
Downloadable content for the game, ''The Delicious Last Course'', which adds a new island, boss encounters, and a third playable character (Ms. Chalice), was revealed at
E3 2018 for release in 2019. However, the new content was pushed back into 2020 to avoid putting too much pressure and
crunch time on the development team. It was further delayed due to the
COVID-19 pandemic and was eventually released on June 30, 2022.
A port of ''Cuphead'' for
macOS was released on October 19, 2018, and advertised with an animated short titled ''Crisp Apples''.
A port for the
Nintendo Switch
The is a hybrid video game console developed by Nintendo and released worldwide in most regions on March 3, 2017. The console itself is a Tablet computer#Gaming tablet, tablet that can either be docking station, docked for use as a home video ...
was released on April 18, 2019. This was made possible when Microsoft approached the development team about it. A
PlayStation 4
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port was released on July 28, 2020.
In June 2019, a port for
Tesla, Inc.'s
Linux-based operating system for some of its cars was announced by Tesla CEO
Elon Musk, who expressed his appreciation of the game. It was released in September 2019 as part of Tesla's software version 10, though only the first level was playable.
Reception
Ben Kuchera of ''
Polygon'' wrote that ''Cuphead'' was one of the five most interesting reveals at Microsoft's E3 2014 press conference, even though he knew little about the game apart from its aesthetic. He said it "stood out immediately" and that everyone in the website's press room viscerally reacted to the trailer.
''Cuphead'' won the ''
IGN'' Best Xbox One game at E3 award in 2015,
and "Best Indie Game" at the
Gamescom 2015 Awards. It was nominated as "Best Independent Game" at the
E3 2016 Game Critics Awards.
''Cuphead'' received "generally favorable" reviews, according to
review aggregator Metacritic.
Its difficulty was noted by several media outlets. ''
Destructoids Brett Makedonski welcomed the high difficulty, which he noted as "tough but fair". Based on "exhaustive" pattern recognition, he said it ultimately relied on
muscle memory, rather than reaction. He thought structuring the game around
boss battle
In video games, a boss is a significant computer-controlled opponent. A fight with a boss character is commonly referred to as a boss battle or boss fight. Bosses are generally far stronger than other opponents the player has faced up to tha ...
s was well executed, and that each boss encounter held "different and special and memorable" traits. Praising the 1930s aesthetics as cohesive, he found the jazz-based soundtrack to be "similarly fabulous". He said the "eight-direction firing radius" was "clunky and awkward".
Though dying 188 times in his playthrough, Ray Carsillo at
''EGMNow'' was not frustrated by the difficulty, but rather was motivated to "dig my heels in deeper". He lauded the "gorgeous" hand-drawn visuals, surpassed only by the gameplay which goes "beyond pattern recognition".
Peter Brown of ''
GameSpot'' opined that combating enemies provided a considerably rewarding experience. He described the cartoon aesthetic as charming, infusing "color and expression", and a "true recreation" of hand-drawn
cel animation. He relished the quick loading times which serve
trial and error tactics. Though he saw "the fear of the unexpected" as part of ''Cuphead''s thrill, he disparaged its failure to identify progress and capability.
Lucas Sullivan at ''
GamesRadar+'' wrote that ''Cuphead'' "stands tall among the best 2D shooters of all time", and that the gameplay demands patient pattern recognition, but which is not frustrating and would reward players "tenfold". Sullivan called the animation adorable, with a wealth of detail in the
watercolor backdrops, which worked well with the gameplay.
''
Giant Bomb''s Ben Pack remarked that playing the game yielded one of his most enjoyable gaming experiences, citing the combination of "brutal" platforming and an "exceptionally well realized" art style.
Joe Skrebels of
IGN declared every scene a "masterwork" and commended the sound work, calling it an "ideal match" to the aesthetics. He called platforming battles the most imaginative part, and the lack of enemy health bars its "smartest" and "most devilish" feature. He found the battles rewarding and "one of ''Cuphead''s greatest strengths". He said the "run 'n' gun, left-to-right platforming" lacked inventiveness, and criticized the "parry system" and control scheme.
Chris Schilling of ''
PC Gamer'' liked the "reliable jump and dash" controls with "nimble and responsive" handling. Schilling explained that certain random elements meant "you can't simply learn patterns by rote and rely entirely on muscle memory".
Chris Plante of ''Polygon'' said the game educates the player in strategy through trial and error. He enjoyed the "crucial" and "relatively forgiving" parrying system, more than the various attacks. He complained that the final bosses diminished the game's greatest features, and that the difficulty "eventually goes too far".
Colm Ahern of VideoGamer.com wrote, "''Cuphead'' will best most games in how it looks and sounds, and defeating that boss that you once deemed unbeatable is glorious." He criticized the final bosses, saying that the challenge was "a step too far".
''Unwinnable'' writer Yussef Cole wrote an essay titled "Cuphead and the Racist Spectre of Fleischer Animation", arguing that by using the
rubber hose animation style, Studio MDHR also brought up the "bigotry and prejudice" that had a strong influence on early animation, claiming that Studio MDHR ignored the context and history of the aesthetic it "so faithfully" replicated.
Cole states that much of the imagery that Studio MDHR took from the Fleischer style effectively carried the racial stereotypes of the
1930s Harlem and
minstrel shows that the animation style was built on.
Chad and Jared Moldenhauer had stated prior to release that they wanted to make an animation style that harkened back to 1930s cartoons without getting ties to racism or minstrel shows in them.
Maja Moldenhauer further stated that all they wanted from the Fleischers was the animation style and visuals, and are "not versed in" anything else happening in that era. In response to Cole's essay, Brandon Orselli of ''Niche Gamer'' defended the game as a tribute to that art style, writing that it was not meant to deliver narratives, or "go anywhere beyond where it needs to go in terms of its basic and child-like storytelling".
Sales
In the two first weeks of release, more than one million copies of ''Cuphead'' were sold worldwide.
Sales reached more than four million by July 2019,
and five million by its second anniversary of release. By the time it was released for the PlayStation 4 in July 2020, it had reached 6 million sales. ''Cuphead: The Delicious Last Course'' accumulated a total of one million sales within less than two weeks of its launch.
Awards
''
Entertainment Weekly'' placed ''Cuphead'' fifth on the list of its "Best Games of 2017", ''GamesRadar+'' ranked it ninth on its list of the 25 Best Games of 2017", and ''Polygon'' ranked it 14th on its list of the "50 best games of 2017". In ''
Game Informer''s Reader's Choice Best of 2017 Awards, the game won the "Best Microsoft Game" and "Best Co-op Multiplayer" categories, and got third place for "Best Action Game". The website also gave it the awards for "Best Microsoft Exclusive" in its "Best of 2017 Awards", and for "Best Bosses" in its 2017 Action Game of the Year Awards. EGMNow ranked the game at #2 on its list of the 25 best games of 2017, and
Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw of ''
Zero Punctuation'' ranked it third on his list of the Best Games of 2017. ''
The Verge'' named it one of its 15 best video games of 2017.
''Cuphead'' was nominated for "Breakout Game of the Year" in ''PC Gamer''s 2017 Game of the Year Awards, and won the award for "Best Xbox One Game" in ''Destructoid''s Game of the Year Awards 2017. It won "Best Xbox One Game" and "Best Art Direction" in IGN's Best of 2017 Awards, whereas its other nominations were for "Game of the Year", "Best PC Game", "Best Platformer", "Best Original Music", and "Best Multiplayer". It won "Best Looking Game" and "Best Style", and was runner-up for "Best Shopkeeper" for the character Porkrind, "Best Music", "Best Debut", and "Game of the Year" at ''Giant Bomb'' Game of the Year 2017 Awards.
In the week of September 14, 2019, the album ''Selected Tunes from Cuphead'' topped the Jazz Albums
''Billboard'' charts.
Legacy
A ''Cuphead'' Mii Fighter costume was added to the 2018
fighting game
A fighting game, also known as a versus fighting game, is a video game genre, genre of video game that involves combat between two or more players. Fighting game combat often features mechanics such as Blocking (martial arts), blocking, grappli ...
''
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate'' via
downloadable content in January 2020. It also came bundled with one of the game's boss level themes, "Floral Fury". Four ''Cuphead''-themed "spirits" were added to ''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate'' in February 2020. Later in 2020,
Arby's added limited-edition toys and
papercrafts based on some characters from the game to its kids' menu at select locations. A
tabletop game, ''Cuphead: Fast Rolling Dice Game'', was released in 2021, featuring a companion app for iOS and Android that plays music and calculates the score.
''The Cuphead Show!''
''The Cuphead Show!'', an
animated series based on the game and produced by
Netflix Animation, was announced in July 2019. The show does not use pen-and-paper animation methods like the game and instead uses digital animation. Chad and Jared Moldenhauer serve as executive producers alongside
CJ Kettler from
King Features Syndicate
King Features Syndicate, Inc. is a American content distribution and animation studio, consumer product licensing and print syndication company owned by Hearst Communications that distributes about 150 comic strips, newspaper columns, editoria ...
.
The series premiered on February 18, 2022. On August 19, 2022, the 13-episode second season was released worldwide. The 11-episode third season was released on November 18, 2022.
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