Cuphead

Cuphead is a classic run-and-gun action game with a focus on challenging boss battles. Inspired by 1930s cartoons, the game features painstakingly hand-drawn cel animation, watercolor backgrounds, and original jazz recordings. Players can control either Cuphead or Mugman in single-player or local co-op mode as they traverse strange worlds, acquire new weapons, learn powerful super moves, and uncover hidden secrets. The gameplay centers around continuous boss fights, interspersed with run-and-gun levels, as Cuphead and Mugman try to pay back their debt to the devil after losing a bet at his casino.

• Release date: 09-29-2019
• Developer: Studio MDHR
• Publisher: Studio MDHR
• Platforms: Linux, MacOS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Windows PC, Xbox One

Triggers for this game

Animals & Wildlife

• Arachnids

  Delicious Last Course DLC (avoidable by not playing)

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  There is a spider character in the boss fight Bootlegger Boogie.

  • Is avoidable

• Cats

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  In a boss fight you are supposed to fight a robot cat.

  • Can't be avoided

• Dogs

  Main game; DLC (avoidable by not playing)

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  Main game — During the clown boss fight he sends dog balloon animals that the player kills by popping them or they die by hitting the ground. DLC — You can injure anthropomorphic dogs in ways that should definitely kill them, but because its a (playable) cartoon, the end cutscene shows that they’re fine.

  • Is avoidable
  • Can't be avoided

• Insects

  • Can't be avoided

• Misc. Animals & Critters

  Horse, frogs, dragon

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  Horse — Undead skeleton horse. Frogs — There are two frog bosses. Dragon — There is a dragon boss.

  • Can't be avoided

• Rodents

  Rabbits, Rats

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  Rabbits — One of the last level's minibosses is a rabbit, and you may have to hurt them to proceed. There are 2 rat bosses.

  • Can't be avoided

• Sharks

  • Can't be avoided

• Snakes

  or possibly eels

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  There is a medusa like character with eels for hair.

  • Can't be avoided

Crime

• Guns & Shooting

  Finger guns that shoot magic

  • Can't be avoided

• Kidnapping

  Delicious Last Course DLC (avoidable by not playing)

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  In the final boss fight of the Delicious Last Course DLC, one of the characters is kidnapped by the main villain.

  • Is avoidable

• Road-Related Violence

  Possibility of being hit by a car

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  In the Beppy the Clown fight, there's a segment where he drive a bumper car, and there's a chance of getting hit by it.

  • Is avoidable

• Torture

  • Can't be avoided

Disturbing Sounds & Sound Design

• Misc. Eerie Noises

  Baby crying

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  Baby crying — During the very first boss fight, Botanic Panic, baby crying sounds will play whenever Ollie Onion uses his crying attack.

  • Can't be avoided

• Screams

  • Can't be avoided

Drugs & Alcohol

• Alcohol Consumption

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  At the beginning of the game, Cuphead and Mugman drink and gamble. They get so carried away while doing so that they lose a bet against the devil.

  • Can't be avoided

Financial & Resource Management

• Gambling

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  At the beginning of the game, Cuphead and Mugman drink and gamble. They get so carried away while doing so that they lose a bet against the devil.

  • Can't be avoided

Gore

• Animal Violence

  A lot of the bosses are animals

  • Can't be avoided

• Beheading

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  One of the game over screens against the final boss it shows him holding the severed bloodless heads of Cuphead and Mugman. Technically avoidable by not dying to the final boss.

  • Is avoidable

• Body Horror

  Teeth are injured and lost regularly

  • Can't be avoided

• Cannibalism

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  Upon defeating one boss, the paramedics carrying him season him with salt and pepper.

  • Can't be avoided

Horror Themes

• Demons & Devils

  Devil

  • Can't be avoided

• Ghosts & Hauntings

  Main game; DLC (avoidable by not playing)

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  Parry-able ghosts, and ghosts on a subway. DLC — The Legendary Chalice/Ms. Chalice is also a ghost, and in the DLC she has a cookie that can turn one of the cups into a ghost while she becomes alive again.

  • Is avoidable
  • Can't be avoided

• Possession

  In one ending

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  In the bad ending, the main characters appear to become possessed in some way by the devil.

  • Is avoidable

Non-Sexual Abuse & Violence

• Altercations

  • Can't be avoided

• Assault

  • Can't be avoided

Phobias

• Arachnophobia

  Delicious Last Course DLC (avoidable by not playing)

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  There is a spider character in the boss fight Bootlegger Boogie.

  • Is avoidable
  • Can't be avoided

• Automatonophobia

  Puppets

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  Djimmi The Great attacks with a puppet in one of the fight's phases.

  • Can't be avoided

• Emetophobia

  Avoidable by not landing on the number 8 during the fight

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  An optional fight against the penultimate boss has a ball you must fight resembling an 8 ball upon defeat this ball violently vomits what looks to be black fluid for approximately 5 seconds or so.

  • Is avoidable

• Misc. Phobias

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  Coulrophobia (Fear of clowns — one of the bosses is a carnival clown); Electrophobia (Fear of electricity — one of the bosses gets electrocuted very cartoonishly and unrealistically as part of their transformation)

  • Can't be avoided

• Ommetaphobia

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  You have to shoot one of the funhouse bosses in the eye in order to defeat it. Another character on the pyramid level pops out their eyes and they act as projectiles. Another character on the train level has eyes on their hands, and also shoots these eyes at you.

  • Can't be avoided

Traumatic Events

• Accidents

  Possibility of being hit by a car

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  In the Beppy the Clown fight, there's a segment where he drive a bumper car, and there's a chance of getting hit by it.

  • Is avoidable

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