50 Fun Facts About Cuphead

What is the name of Cuphead's brother?

He is the second player's character in co-op and can be used as an alternate skin in single-player.

Which company developed and published Cuphead?

MDHR is short for the surname of founders Chad and Jared Moldenhauer.

What game were the brothers playing at the Devil's Casino when they lost their souls?

Cuphead accepts the Devil's all-or-nothing wager and rolls snake eyes.

What does the Devil demand the brothers collect from his runaway debtors by midnight?

Their guardian warns them the debtors will not hand the contracts over willingly, hence the boss fights.

Which elderly guardian's potion lets the brothers fire energy from their fingers?

In the streaming series he is voiced by Joe Hanna and the family lives in a teapot-shaped cottage.

Who is the Devil's right-hand man, who fights the brothers in a casino-themed battle?

He attacks because the brothers' success made him lose a bet; a Whose Line comedian voices him in the TV series.

What is the name of the island where the game is set?

It is divided into sectors, each with its own bosses and secret areas on the overworld map.

What is the in-game shop where players buy weapons and Charms called?

Porkrind was runner-up for Best Shopkeeper in Giant Bomb's 2017 awards.

Objects that can be parried in Cuphead are marked in what colour?

Parrying charges the super meter, and in co-op you can parry a fallen partner's soul to revive them.

The super meter is represented by a row of how many playing cards?

Spending one card fires an EX attack; a full meter unleashes a Super Art.

How do players earn each of the three Super Arts?

You must stop a horde of ghosts from reaching an urn in the centre of the screen.

What are the three difficulty modes for most boss fights?

Beating a boss on regular is required to progress; the last two bosses have no simple mode.

Some boss battles have the brothers piloting what?

Those stages play like side-scrolling shoot 'em ups rather than platform fights.

Which cartooning style from the golden age of American cartoons inspired Cuphead's look?

Chad Moldenhauer called Fleischer Studios 'the magnetic north' of his art style.

Cuphead's design descends from a teacup-headed character in a 1936 propaganda cartoon from which country?

The film is Evil Mickey Attacks Japan; the brothers also tried a kappa in a top hat and fork-headed characters first.

Which 2010 indie hit convinced the Moldenhauer brothers to try making Cuphead again?

They had attempted a similar game in 2000 but lacked the tools.

What did the Moldenhauers do to finance the game's completion?

Development began in 2010 in XNA and switched to Unity in 2014, run from homes in Oakville, Ontario and Regina, Saskatchewan.

Cuphead's animation runs at what frame rate, beneath 60-fps gameplay?

Twenty-four is the standard for American film; the backgrounds were painted in watercolour and coloured in Photoshop.

Who composed Cuphead's big-band soundtrack?

The score has 51 tracks recorded with jazz and big band musicians using vintage recording methods.

Selected Tunes from Cuphead made history in 2019 by topping which Billboard chart?

It earned a Guinness World Record as the first video game to reach number one on a Billboard chart.

Cuphead was released on September 29, 2017 as a timed exclusive for Windows and which console?

It supported Xbox Play Anywhere; the Switch port came in April 2019 and PS4 in July 2020.

Which platform received Cuphead last, in July 2020?

Microsoft itself approached the developers about the Nintendo Switch port a year earlier.

Which car company shipped a version of Cuphead's first level in its vehicles' software in 2019?

Elon Musk announced it personally; only the first level was playable.

Roughly how many copies had Cuphead sold by July 2020?

It passed one million within two weeks of launch and four million by mid-2019.

What is the title of Cuphead's 2022 DLC expansion?

Revealed at E3 2018 for 2019, it slipped to avoid crunch and then to the pandemic, finally landing on June 30, 2022.

Which third playable character does the 2022 expansion add?

She has a double jump, an invincible roll and a parry dash, and swaps in via a special charm.

What item lets the expansion's ghostly heroine trade places with one of the brothers?

Eating it turns the brother into a spirit and gives the ghostly heroine a temporary living body.

Who is the DLC's villain, a baker who wants to bake a living soul into a dessert?

His dessert was supposed to give the ghostly heroine a permanent body; he ends up sentenced to community service.

What is the name of the special dessert at the centre of the expansion's plot?

The heroine refuses to let anyone sacrifice a soul for it and stays a spirit, at least for now.

At which trade show was Cuphead first shown to the public, at Microsoft's press event in 2014?

It was estimated to be about 40 percent complete and was not yet playable.

Which game engine did the developers switch to in 2014 to finish Cuphead?

Development had begun in 2010 with Microsoft's XNA framework.

The developers aimed to beat which game's Guinness record for run-and-gun boss battles?

Treasure's Alien Soldier had 25 bosses; Cuphead planned more than 30.

Which three trophies did Cuphead take home at the 2017 ceremony hosted by Geoff Keighley?

It also won three D.I.C.E. Awards and a BAFTA for Music.

Cuphead won a 2018 Annie Award for character animation credited to which animator?

Jake Clark contributed additional animation and Tony Coculuzzi led programming.

On which streaming service did The Cuphead Show! premiere in February 2022?

Three seasons and 36 episodes were released across 2022, developed by Dave Wasson.

Who voices Cuphead in The Cuphead Show!?

Frank Todaro plays his brother; the game's heroes never spoke, so the actors invented the voices from scratch.

Which comedian and Whose Line Is It Anyway? star voices the Devil's dice-headed lieutenant in the series?

Grey DeLisle voices the ghost girl and Luke Millington-Drake plays the Devil.

In the show, the Devil hunts Cuphead after Cuphead loses which carnival game?

It replaces the game's craps scene with a recurring chase across otherwise episodic stories.

Cuphead appeared in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate in what form?

The DLC costume arrived on January 28, 2020; Jared Moldenhauer had publicly lobbied for a real fighter slot.

What does the studio name 'MDHR' stand for?

Chad and Jared Moldenhauer were born in Regina, Saskatchewan, in 1979 and 1980.

What genre is Cuphead?

Its structure is a boss rush with a few run-and-gun platform stages in between.

What was announced in June 2026 alongside a spin-off called Mighty Cuphead Adventure?

The developers had said before launch that Cuphead could be extended with packs of 10 to 15 bosses each.

Which framework did Studio MDHR use when Cuphead's development began in 2010?

The brothers worked from their homes in Oakville, Ontario and Regina, Saskatchewan before moving the project to Unity in 2014.

Which studio did Chad Moldenhauer call 'the magnetic north' of Cuphead's art style?

He especially wanted to mimic the studio's 'subversive and surrealist' elements from the early golden age of animation.

How were Cuphead's hand-drawn backgrounds painted before being coloured in Photoshop?

Chad Moldenhauer saw the deliberate human imperfections in the art as a reaction to the perfectionism of modern pixel art.

How many tracks make up Kristofer Maddigan's jazz and big-band score for Cuphead?

The studio deliberately used vintage recording processes to match the 1930s sound.

Which fast-food chain released limited-edition Cuphead toys and papercrafts in 2020?

Other tie-ins include McFarlane construction sets, a Zara clothing line and Good Smile Nendoroids of Cuphead and Mugman.

Which famed Final Fantasy artist illustrated the cover of Cuphead's 2023 Japanese physical release?

His original illustration of the cast in his signature style was warmly received by fans online.

Which publisher has produced Cuphead graphic novels since 2019, starting with Comic Capers & Curios?

A third volume, Colorful Crack-Ups & Chaos, arrived in August 2024, and Studio MDHR also put out a novel in 2020.

Who developed The Cuphead Show! for Netflix?

Unlike the game's pen-and-paper animation, the series was made digitally, with the Moldenhauers as executive producers.