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Against the elder's warnings, the brothers enter the Devil's Casino and begin playing craps. On the fictional Inkwell Isles, Cuphead and his brother Mugman are two fun-loving cups who live under the watchful eye of Elder Kettle. The game also has a two-player local cooperative mode. The levels are accessible through a top-down perspective overworld with its own secret areas. Player characters feature a parry attack that can be used on certain objects marked in pink, to various effects, the most important of them being increasing a 'super meter' that enables more powerful attacks.Īfter completing a level, the player will be ranked with a grade based on their performance, through factors such as the time taken to defeat a boss, damage avoided, and number of parried attacks. The player can purchase weapons and 'Charms' (special abilities) from the shop using coins collected from the run-and-gun levels. Cuphead has infinite lives, maintaining all equipment between deaths. The game also includes role-playing elements, and a branching level sequence. Each of these boss fights and run and gun levels are housed in three different worlds, with the final one being against the Devil himself. It was both a critical and commercial success, winning several awards and selling over three million copies by August 2018.Ĭuphead's gameplay is centered around continual boss fights, with interspersed run and gun levels. The game was praised for its art style and noted for its challenging difficulty. The game was inspired by the rubber hose style of animation used in cartoons of the 1930s, such as the work of studios Fleischer and Walt Disney Animation, and seeks to emulate their subversive and surrealist qualities.Ĭuphead features one or two players taking control of animated characters Cuphead and his brother Mugman to fight through several levels that culminate in boss fights as to repay their debt to the devil.

#Download cuphead free pc windows#

First announced in 2013, the game was released for Microsoft Windows and Xbox One in September 2017, for macOS in October 2018, and for Nintendo Switch in April 2019. Cuphead is a run and gun indie video game developed and published by StudioMDHR.