Cuphead
Worth it · Action · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $19.99, a BANGER if it drops to $15.55. Typically $13.99 in seasonal sales. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.89/hr
- ReviewsS
- 96% of 223,709
- Critics
- 88 players 8 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Action
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $15.55 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 10.6h
- To 100%
- 28.1h 2.7x the story
- Finish
- 18% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 42
Price and sales
- Sales
- 53 on record
- Typical cut
- 30% off
- Steam low
- $11.99 June 2026
- Sale every
- 53d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 1,907 now
- Recent reviews
- 94% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 6% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
77% start to 18% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 53 times in the 9 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 30 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $15.55 BANGER line 39 times.
Its score 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, Mago ($5.24, scores 86) beats it on value, while it beats The Bug Butcher ($7.99, scores 70).
More about Cuphead
88 from critics against 96 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 18 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 10.6-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 17 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,368 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 1,982 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 86 percent of the 11,074 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 6 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 10.6 hours. Doing everything runs 28, 2.7 times as long.
The rating rests on 223,709 reviews, so it is not going to move much from here.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 10.6 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
I have this weird habit of playing extremely difficult games whenever I'm feeling down. I don't know why I do this. Maybe I enjoy suffering. Maybe I think it builds character. Maybe I just hate myself. And every single time I play one of these games, I somehow feel that life's not that bad or unfair(unlike this game). **10/10. 100% recommended.** give it a try.
1 more review, not recommended
Cuphead is technically a run 'n gun and shoot 'em up. It has great controls, amazing art/design. While the game can be a tad frustrating, it isn't unfair. It just requires a bit of precision, patience and practice. That said, it also brings me little fun to play. I love run 'n guns, schumps are my favorite genre of video game. However, Cuphead's version of these are not my 'cup of tea'. Pun intended. The run 'n gun...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
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.
Cite this score
Cuphead scores 80/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/268910/cupheadReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 3, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.