Cuphead

Cuphead is an award-winning action platformer created to mimic the visual styles of old 1930s Max Fleischer cartoons, providing players with an incredible action experience, complicated combat encounters, and impressive bosses that require maximum attention, coordination, and precise movement.

Built from the ground by the indie team from Studio MDHR, this game has quickly attracted worldwide acclaim as one of the best run-and-gun video games ever created.

Cuphead is set in a cartoony world where our main hero has managed to gamble away his soul in the fantastical Devil Casino. This pushes him on an adventure to fight off an incredible variety of bosses who are trying to steal his soul. The campaign of the game is crafted into a run-and-gun selection of levels where the main attention is placed on large boss encounters, with a limited amount of traditional platforming against smaller and more nimble enemy characters. The boss encounters are the most memorable moments of this game, featuring large and exquisitely detailed opponents that can unleash an unbelievable amount of offense on our character.

The entire visual style of the game is full of detail and animation quirks, transforming an ordinary 2D platformer into an incredibly impressive work of art. With a style that resembles old pre-WW2 cartoons and an incredible variety of environments, Cuphead represents one of the best-looking 2D games of today. In addition to solo play, Cuphead can also be experienced in a two-player coop.

Users should be aware that this title is not easy and requires complete dedication and willingness to surpass very hard encounters that can easily end in a game over the screen. Because of this, Cuphead is today known as one of the hardest action platformers of modern gaming history, but surprisingly, this difficulty of play has not stopped it from becoming one of the best-known and awarded titles of 2017, including awards such as Best Independent Game, Best Visual Design, Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction, Excellence in Animation, and others.

Cuphead is a masterful run-and-gun action platformer that requires players' maximum commitment and coordination. The game is optimized for older PCs, and while it can be somewhat played on integrated GPUs, the developers recommend a stronger standalone GPU that can better handle an incredible variety of objects on the screen. The game is fully optimized for all modern versions of Windows OS (7, 8, 8.1, 10, and Windows 11).