Cuphead

 Xbox One
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8.5

Generally favorable reviews- based on 955 Ratings

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  1. simsy
    Nov 14, 2017
    10
    Easily one of the best games of the year with its exceptional visuals and soundtrack and its fun and challenging gameplay and with the price they're asking there is no reason to not pick this up.
  2. iamevilhomer
    Nov 14, 2017
    7
    Good to see games like this make a come back a little bit. Contra anyone? Sunset riders? Metal slug???

    Sadly this game is getting far more praise than it deserves. Yeah that kind of classic side scroller shooter is a blast from the past. Yeah it's visuals are kool and kind of new to gaming. But it's just contra again basically... No need to start throwing 10s out there... It's not like    Good to see games like this make a come back a little bit. Contra anyone? Sunset riders? Metal slug???

    Sadly this game is getting far more praise than it deserves. Yeah that kind of classic side scroller shooter is a blast from the past. Yeah it's visuals are kool and kind of new to gaming. But it's just contra again basically... No need to start throwing 10s out there... It's not like this kind of game has never been done before... This really isn't anything new but it's still a good one to check out.    … Expand
  3. Seta
    Nov 11, 2017
    9
    Fun game the first couple times but after you finish all the achievements there's not a lot of reason to go back. The parry could be much better in my opinion because it sometimes causes you to take damage or puts you in a worse position due to the fact it doesn't provide any i frames, aside from going for rank just dodging is usually a better alternative. A few of the item descriptionsFun game the first couple times but after you finish all the achievements there's not a lot of reason to go back. The parry could be much better in my opinion because it sometimes causes you to take damage or puts you in a worse position due to the fact it doesn't provide any i frames, aside from going for rank just dodging is usually a better alternative. A few of the item descriptions say "the first time" which i think they did to add to the challenge but for the most part it just takes away from the replay ability with less worth while options for customization.… Expand
  4. that_gamer
    Nov 11, 2017
    9
    unbelievable beautiful but hard game. But at the same time it's fair. If you loose it's your fault and never a bug or something. The game itself is a little bit short but because it's so damn hard you spend countless hours on it.
  5. Shivipivi
    Nov 9, 2017
    9
    What I really like about Cuphead is it's 1930 style art style and live jazz recordings. They really set the mood for the games. The bosses are tricky but never unfair. It's a game about learning and it's super fun! It's a shame it ended so fast. I may have liked to see some more levels but since every frame was hand drawn I can see how much effort has been put into the game. Truly amazing though.
  6. mohamad_mahdi
    Nov 9, 2017
    10
    most enjoable hard game ever made !!!
    with Great graphic and music!!!
    and when u play it in two players ... OMG ... that's awesome !
    wish they make cuphead 2 either
  7. SuperNorst
    Oct 31, 2017
    9
    The only crime is that there is no physical version!

    This game is engaging, beautiful, and challenging. Walt Disney would be proud. Platformers tend to fall into the pitfalls of repetition and can become stale when enemies, bosses, and stage mechanics repeat and play exactly the same during play through. Cuphead mixes elements up and you will not be able to predict what a boss may do    The only crime is that there is no physical version!

    This game is engaging, beautiful, and challenging. Walt Disney would be proud.

    Platformers tend to fall into the pitfalls of repetition and can become stale when enemies, bosses, and stage mechanics repeat and play exactly the same during play through. Cuphead mixes elements up and you will not be able to predict what a boss may do next. Quick reactions and split second decision making are necessary to complete this game.    … Expand
  8. SANDYkinz
    Oct 29, 2017
    9
    Cuphead is a gem of the game. Playing with my friends at mine has been so much fun and we've even set up days to come back and beat it and are still talking about it with how fun it was. The graphics are so unique, and the soundtrack as well. The gameplay is incredibly fun as well. My only gripe with the game is that playing solo really wasn't as much as playing with friends. But for 16Cuphead is a gem of the game. Playing with my friends at mine has been so much fun and we've even set up days to come back and beat it and are still talking about it with how fun it was. The graphics are so unique, and the soundtrack as well. The gameplay is incredibly fun as well. My only gripe with the game is that playing solo really wasn't as much as playing with friends. But for 16 pounds, or 20 dollars or whatever it is, its worth it even if you don't get around to completing it just because it such a special game. Would highly recommend if you have people to play with… Expand
  9. Neelyry
    Oct 28, 2017
    10
    An unexpected delight. I don't usually give out tens but this game earned it with its originality. All the art is hand drawn then scanned in so there is no CG, it looks like I'm playing a 1930s cartoon and its incredible. It can be very difficult on regular so play on simple if needed. I game on regular and sometimes it can take a while to beat a level but its so satisfying.
  10. mixtto
    Oct 25, 2017
    9
    Every detail is amazing. At first you think some bosses are impossible, but after dying a hundred times you do get better. You can't leave the game because you always want to try again and again, also the graphics/soundtrack won't let you leave. A problem I realize is the slow loading on Xbox one.
  11. TrumpHater67420
    Oct 25, 2017
    10
    Cuphead is an extremely great game. It is very unique in it's art style and brings new life to the future of indie games. You will get very angry while playing it but that just makes it feel even better once you beat a boss. I highly recommend this to anyone unless you have anger issues.
  12. WowOnce
    Oct 24, 2017
    10
    JUST TAKE MY MONEY! This game is the most fun I had with my Xbox in months. The art style is stunning and the smooth sound track really brings me back. There are no checkpoints in the levels and they are quite hard. It really brings me back when you die and have to replay the whole level again.

    Honestly, modern game mechanics like Quick-save and Checkpoints have spoiled me. It's great    JUST TAKE MY MONEY! This game is the most fun I had with my Xbox in months. The art style is stunning and the smooth sound track really brings me back. There are no checkpoints in the levels and they are quite hard. It really brings me back when you die and have to replay the whole level again.

    Honestly, modern game mechanics like Quick-save and Checkpoints have spoiled me. It's great that there is finally some challenge with these games. 10/10 Would recommend!    … Expand
  13. k3lvra
    Oct 19, 2017
    10
    Esto es calidad en estado puro, desde los gráficos hasta la banda sonora este videojuego despide amor puro por el trabajo. Un claro respiro de aire fresco para todos lo verdaderos gamers.
  14. Darkmegacyber
    Oct 19, 2017
    9
    El juego es grandioso. Muy buena dificultad, buenos controles, musica bestial, graficos atemporales.
    Unos de los mejores juegos del año sin temor a equivocarme.
  15. chocoboogerfart
    Oct 18, 2017
    8
    I've only got up to the second boss fight, but I still love the game. It's challenging, the graphics are amazing, and the game involves a lot of thinking and strategy, so it's actually increases your brain power to some degree. It is one of my favorite videogames of all times, and it's extremely fun. I've watched the cut scenes, and I have this theory that may or not come true that thereI've only got up to the second boss fight, but I still love the game. It's challenging, the graphics are amazing, and the game involves a lot of thinking and strategy, so it's actually increases your brain power to some degree. It is one of my favorite videogames of all times, and it's extremely fun. I've watched the cut scenes, and I have this theory that may or not come true that there will be a sequel that will pick up after the good ending cliffhanger. Don't judge that I've only got up to the second boss fight, because I'm 9 years old, and I've only had the game for two days. edit: now I've had the game for five days and I'm on the fifth boss fight.… Expand
  16. sidmarmorais
    Oct 18, 2017
    10
    Fantastic game, beautiful, very well built.
    wonderful art direction and the musics are very engaging, very characteristic the time to which the game goes back.
    yes, the game is very challenging and the bosses act in different ways every time you play, but even with the high challenge game you reward each win. It is an unmissable adventure.
  17. JaySilver
    Oct 18, 2017
    9
    This game is an artistical masterpiece. The art design is magnificient - the studio really caught the pre-war-cartoon spirit. Its spritual predecessor is (without a doubt) super mario bros. You walk around on a map, choosing the next level to play. Most of the levels are bosses - really really tough ones, BUT, theres a learning curve. I recommend to play it with a friend, because its wayThis game is an artistical masterpiece. The art design is magnificient - the studio really caught the pre-war-cartoon spirit. Its spritual predecessor is (without a doubt) super mario bros. You walk around on a map, choosing the next level to play. Most of the levels are bosses - really really tough ones, BUT, theres a learning curve. I recommend to play it with a friend, because its way easier that way. There are even a few upgrades to your Character, so you can strategically prepare for each battle. Everyone who likes platformer games: Grab it. I gave it 1 point less, because its digital only.… Expand
  18. ZakouAmazigh
    Oct 16, 2017
    10
    whats a great game definetly worthing the 20 bucks great gameplay awessome grafique reminding me my childhood its visual and soundtrack are unique and the gameplay is really chalenging
  19. puhskinti
    Oct 14, 2017
    10
    the aesthetics and gameplay of this game are so well done, it's clear that this comes from a place of love for the cartoons of the 30s and run-and-gun action platformers of the 80s and 90s. cuphead as a whole is deceptively simple with the enemy patterns and stage layouts, but the difficulty (while high) is fair because the game does a great job of teaching you the mechanics throughthe aesthetics and gameplay of this game are so well done, it's clear that this comes from a place of love for the cartoons of the 30s and run-and-gun action platformers of the 80s and 90s. cuphead as a whole is deceptively simple with the enemy patterns and stage layouts, but the difficulty (while high) is fair because the game does a great job of teaching you the mechanics through experience and trial and error

    the co-op is really fun too and it adds another layer of difficulty to the game through having to communicate with your partner and having to revive them when they die a lot, though i personally think the one player experience is a lot better because of the way the damage output scales between single- and multi-player and having less things on screen to keep track of. also the powerups are very well balanced, with nothing being too op and every weapon having a decent drawback to them (the roundabout is decently powerful and can easily cross the screen but it's forward range is terrible, the chaser removes the need to aim but it's weaker, the charge shot is very powerful when it's charged but it can't rapid-fire, etc)

    the few problems i really have with this is there's a very random glitch that occurs when parrying that causes the game to crash and i have to reset it which is annoying especially in a particularly challenging level, and the timing for the parry is a little too specific imo, but it's otherwise an amazing game at an amazing value    … Expand
  20. SirGamesALot
    Oct 13, 2017
    2
    Cuphead: Broken Fine China

    As anyone who's seen anything about this game, yes Cuphead is a beautiful, fun-looking game with a wonderful soundtrack. However, I put emphasis on looks because while they may have been better off making an actual cartoon, that is if they took the time to write a less almost charmingly cliched story for it, the gameplay of this game is garbage. Don't get    Cuphead: Broken Fine China

    As anyone who's seen anything about this game, yes Cuphead is a beautiful, fun-looking game with a wonderful soundtrack. However, I put emphasis on looks because while they may have been better off making an actual cartoon, that is if they took the time to write a less almost charmingly cliched story for it, the gameplay of this game is garbage.

    Don't get me wrong, every level starts off fun, but believe you me, after the 20th or 30th, or 113th f*cking try, you will learn to hate every single level. Whoever playtested this game should be fired, not just from the company, from the Earth, into the sun. Over 100 attempts was not an exaggeration, this game is so brutally, cruelly, unbearably difficult it made me want to walk to the top of the nearest tall building and throw my Xbox off a roof. It turned me from an animal activist and environmentalist into a man with no goal but to burn every tree and stomp every flower and frog I see for the rest of my life.

    For a game with such smooth and pretty animation in all other situations, Cuphead sure could have used the ability to fully rotate his arm. I can't even count the number of times one of those smug looking enemies was waltzing up 3 centimeters from Cuphead's goofy, smiling face but he couldn't shoot him because he has a rare form of Parkinson's that prevents his arms from bending at more than 6 angles. Not only does this ruin gameplay, it makes the painstakingly rendered animations almost constantly look like a janky mess. This could've also been remedied by a players ability to jump on or mele some enemies like nearly every other platformer, but cup head gets hit by a speck of dust blowing in the wind and he's out for the count.

    The largest flaw in this game or any game I've ever played in my life is the 3 hit only, no checkpoint gameplay based almost entirely on nearly endless trial and error with ridiculously complex mutli-stage bosses that have more projectiles and side enemies surrounding them at all times than the human eye can possibly keep track of. There were a few bosses so ridiculously cluttered with things on the screen I had to try to unfocus my eyes and just react to the specific blurred colors of enemies because there was just way too much going on.

    Without an unlimited lives, checkpoint, or increased aim rotation/button assignment patch I will never play this game again and be glad for it, after all the work that went into creating this beautiful, fun world we want to explore, it's rendered moot by the sheer lack of fun derived from the gameplay. Playing this game felt like a chore, like an exam you had to study for hours to get every single answer exactly write because playing it any way but the one single way to beat it designed by the programmers is the wrong way.

    Cuphead seems as if the design process went something like this, "Okay the level looks cool, the boss has some good designs and crazy attacks, on to the next" (but what about whether or not it is physically possible for an average human being to track that many things while dodging and ducking and pin point shooting on a poorly designed aiming system?) "I said on to the next!"

    I played it the first time just to see all of the cool levels and bosses and partially just because I refused to be beaten by a game that looked like it was made for children though the child version of myself probably would have blown a gasket playing this game. But looking back at it, I can't think of a single level I had fun playing the entire time, in fact, I hated almost all of the time that I spent playing this game, the grind, the memorization, the repetition, the rage-inducing gameplay shortcomings. Without a serious patch to give this more of a laid back feel that you can just casually play and have fun going through the world, I wouldn't play this game again to save my life, that's just sadomasochistic. It's a beautiful game, that's fun in theory but infuriating in practice, with those basic necessities patched in it would easily be an 8/10, but until such a time, I can't even bring myself to give it more than a 2.    … Expand
  21. Aruzo
    Oct 13, 2017
    10
    This Game is a real jewel for the Xbox One. Of course the graphic is awesome but the gameplay mechanic is also brilliant and smooth. The soundtrack makes this Game unforgettable for me. 10/10
  22. Slytherin
    Oct 13, 2017
    8
    Absolutely fantastic game. Just like an 80's cartoon. Don't be fooled by the art style. Watch out casuals this game will make you cry.

    + Graphics
    + Gameplay
    + Difficulty.
  23. Tenacidad963
    Oct 12, 2017
    10
    Este videojuego está yendo en contra de la tendencia actual de que se debe pagar por las partes que se venden por separado después de comprar o descargar la parte principal. No hay DLC, ni micropagos, ni otra tontería no se pone en el juego. Más bien los consumidores deben ser los que obliguen a las empresas a que se vuelva a como era hace 10 años cuando los juegos se vendían completos.Este videojuego está yendo en contra de la tendencia actual de que se debe pagar por las partes que se venden por separado después de comprar o descargar la parte principal. No hay DLC, ni micropagos, ni otra tontería no se pone en el juego. Más bien los consumidores deben ser los que obliguen a las empresas a que se vuelva a como era hace 10 años cuando los juegos se vendían completos.

    In English:
    This video game is going against the current trend that must be paid for parts that are sold separately after buying or downloading the main part. There is no DLC, no micropayments, no other nonsense is not put into the game. Rather, consumers must be the ones that force companies to go back to what it was 10 years ago when the games were sold out.    … Expand
  24. TVTema
    Oct 12, 2017
    10
    It's not just a game. This is a real work of art. Art image is the crown of the creation of game artists in the history of game development. Music is also very colorful and fits perfectly into the gamesetting and gameplay.
  25. Recon97
    Oct 11, 2017
    9
    Be ready for pain and suffering. But not because the game is bad!
    The game is teeth grinding levels of hard, but its SO SATISFYING when you finally beat a boss you've been stuck on!(aka every single boss.) The style of the game is just beautiful, the gameplay is difficult but rewarding, and the soundtrack is godly. Great game. 9/10
  26. Letmethinkabout
    Oct 10, 2017
    5
    Cuphead it's a gourgeous graphic game on a nice mobile platform that's it. I absolutely love the style of the game, and when the game works well it’s a truly rewarding experience that overcomes the seemingly impossible difficulty. Every time I beat a boss I felt re-energized, ready to tackle the next (and there are quite a few of them). But randomness and all too frequent bugs are rottenCuphead it's a gourgeous graphic game on a nice mobile platform that's it. I absolutely love the style of the game, and when the game works well it’s a truly rewarding experience that overcomes the seemingly impossible difficulty. Every time I beat a boss I felt re-energized, ready to tackle the next (and there are quite a few of them). But randomness and all too frequent bugs are rotten apples that spoil what could be a damn near perfect barrel of fruit.… Expand
  27. cem12
    Oct 8, 2017
    9
    Gran juego que ha sabido extraer la experiencia de dibujos antiguos, y es un juego que por fin no premia el ser malo. El único fallo que le encuentro y es un fallo muy importante, que solo está en inglés.
  28. sodaball
    Oct 8, 2017
    10
    Honestly amazing. This game took my breath away with the amazing visuals, smooth game-play, and a prodigious story. Its a tale of why you should value other things over money and fame. it does sure sound cheesy but its amazing. i have to credit the developers for making this amazing story and spectacular art. Each and every scene of the game is hand-drawn and it took about 7 years to drawHonestly amazing. This game took my breath away with the amazing visuals, smooth game-play, and a prodigious story. Its a tale of why you should value other things over money and fame. it does sure sound cheesy but its amazing. i have to credit the developers for making this amazing story and spectacular art. Each and every scene of the game is hand-drawn and it took about 7 years to draw all of it. If i had a choice in the matter this would be game of the year for sure.… Expand
  29. nanopilo
    Oct 8, 2017
    10
    Es un juego que te deja una sensación diferente! es muy divertido! no tienes tiempo para pensar mucho! debes actuar rápido!!!! pues las almas de Cuphead y Mugsman están en juego :D
  30. MaximusDesmus
    Oct 8, 2017
    10
    This game is a masterpiece. The visuals, the sound, the gameplay is all rock solid.

    It's challenging, but challenging in a good way. In other words, it's not unfair at any given point. The mistakes you make are your mistakes and they are clear. Now, there are a few minor bugs, but these can be patched easily and I expect the studio to do so at some point in the near future. Besides    This game is a masterpiece. The visuals, the sound, the gameplay is all rock solid.

    It's challenging, but challenging in a good way. In other words, it's not unfair at any given point. The mistakes you make are your mistakes and they are clear.

    Now, there are a few minor bugs, but these can be patched easily and I expect the studio to do so at some point in the near future. Besides the very few minor glitches, this game is a gem. It's worth the price they're asking for it (20$) and you should definitely have this in your library.    … Expand
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Awards & Rankings

9
#9 Best Xbox One Game of 2017
6
#6 Most Discussed Xbox One Game of 2017
2
#2 Most Shared Xbox One Game of 2017

Critic Reviews

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Metascore
86

Generally favorable reviews - based on 72 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 69 out of 72
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 72
  3. Negative: 0 out of 72
  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Feb 16, 2018
    80
    The unique audiovisual elaborating and uncompromising playability beat a few freckles on the beauty of the game. Cuphead is a title that has mistakes, but you just cannot get it from the head. [Issue#279]
  2. FANDOM
    Dec 11, 2017
    70
    For players that appreciate classic run-and-gun combat, punishing difficulty, constantly learning from failure, and breathtaking art, Cuphead’s experience will not disappoint.
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  3. games(TM)
    Nov 3, 2017
    80
    Microsoft's true standout exclusive for 2017. [Issue#194, p.70]
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