Cuphead
Worth it · Action · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99, a BANGER if it drops to $15.42.
- Length
- 10.5h
- Value
- $1.90/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 3 GB of memory, Geforce 9600 GT or AMD HD 3870 512MB or higher, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Cuphead is a classic run and gun action game heavily focused on boss battles. Inspired by cartoons of the 1930s, the visuals and audio are painstakingly created with the same techniques of the era, i.e. traditional hand drawn cel animation, watercolor backgrounds, and original jazz recordings.
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $11.99. That was June 2026. It has been discounted 52 times in the 9 years tracked here, typically at 30 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 12 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks. Past sales have already crossed the $15.42 BANGER line 38 times.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, TowerFall Ascension ($14.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats The Bug Butcher ($7.99, scores 60).
88 from critics against 96 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data says about 18 percent of players ever finish it. On a 10.5-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. Of the 798 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 24 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 11,014 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 10.5 hours. Doing everything runs 28, 2.7 times as long.
It came out 9 years ago and 2.1K were still playing it at the last check.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 10.5 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
77% start to 18% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
2,080 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
An artistic achievement for the ages It is often rare to find a game that can, without a shadow of doubt, be considered a masterpiece since the first moment you pick up the controller to play. I could spend all night talking about the level design, art, mechanics, soundtrack, gameplay and difficulty. However i feel that anything i say won't be able to do justice to what this game accomplishes. I can assure you that...
I play in short 15 minute sessions to keep the game fun. The bosses are hard to defeat. Art and sound are excellent!
لعبة لما تجربها تعرف انها تستحق محبتها وشهرتها، لعبتها أول مرة مع صديق ورجعت ختمتها لحالي على الصعوبة الأعلى وبالاثنين استمتعت .. الصعوبة قاسية في بداية كل قتال لكن بعدما تقرأ وتحفظ الحركات راح تستمع بشعور الأنتصار، أحب الألعاب اللي تتطلب ردة فعل سريعة وترفع الأدرينالين، وهالشيء كب هيد قدمته بشكل ممتاز ، حتى التعاوني كان ممتع جدًا ويمكن أكثر شيء يضحك ويعصب بنفس الوقت، لأن وجود لاعب ثاني يخلي الفوضى والتشتت أكثر، بس...
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Cuphead scores 80/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/268910/cupheadThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 10, price as of Sep 24.
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