Cuphead
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Cuphead is a 2017 boss-rush action game with hand-drawn 1930s cartoon visuals. It has over 200,000 Steam reviews with a 96% positive rating. The game is self-published by Studio MDHR. Initial price was $19.99.
Overview
Cuphead is a 2017 Action game developed by Studio MDHR Entertainment Inc. and published by Studio MDHR Entertainment Inc.. On Steam it has gathered 188,579 player reviews, 96% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Studio MDHR Entertainment Inc. with publisher Studio MDHR Entertainment Inc. is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box model estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 10.2 million to 23.8 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Cuphead can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
188,579
Positive
96%
Steam appid
268910
Engine
n/a
Sales estimate
vv1.010.2M to 23.8M
units (median: 17.0M)
≈ $116.3M to $271.3M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Cuphead at roughly 10.2 million to 23.8 million copies, with a median around 17.0 million, derived from its 188,579 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $193.8M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $10.61Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $10.61 to $19.99, averaging $18.36 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $10.61 on 2026-05-26.
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Platforms
macwindows
Tags
DifficultCartoonCo-opPlatformerGreat SoundtrackLocal Co-Op2DMultiplayerHand-drawnIndieCartoonyRetroBullet HellActionShoot 'Em UpSingleplayerSide ScrollerColorfulSouls-likeFunny
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Cuphead sold?
- indielist estimates Cuphead has sold between 10,183,266 and 23,760,954 units (median 16,972,110), derived from its 188,579 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Cuphead?
- Cuphead was developed by Studio MDHR Entertainment Inc. and published by Studio MDHR Entertainment Inc..
- When was Cuphead released?
- Cuphead was released in 2017.
- How many reviews does Cuphead have on Steam?
- Cuphead has 188,579 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Cuphead sold?
- indielist estimates Cuphead has sold between 10,183,266 and 23,760,954 units (median 16,972,110), derived from its 188,579 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Cuphead?
- Cuphead was developed by Studio MDHR Entertainment Inc. and published by Studio MDHR Entertainment Inc..
- When was Cuphead released?
- Cuphead was released in 2017.
- How many reviews does Cuphead have on Steam?
- Cuphead has 188,579 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Cuphead within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Studio MDHR Entertainment Inc.'s other releases and Studio MDHR Entertainment Inc.'s wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Cuphead sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Cuphead page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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