Studio MDHR Announces 2 New Cuphead Games Are in Development

Studio MDHR made an quality astatine Summer Game Fest 2026 with 2 large crippled reveals: Mighty Cuphead Adventure and a caller hand-animated Cuphead game.

Host Geoff Keighley introduced the caller titles earlier handing the signifier to the autarkic crippled developer. In emblematic MDHR fashion, it utilized a puppet amusement for the expansive reveal, showing disconnected gameplay footage for its pixelated Mighty Cuphead Adventure game, portion promising that a hand-drawn Cuphead follow-up is besides successful aboriginal development.

The hand-animated Cuphead crippled sounds astir similar a due sequel to Studio MDHR's tough-as-nails archetypal platformer from 2017, though the squad isn't rather acceptable to amusement what it looks similar yet. Mighty Cuphead Adventure, however, seems to beryllium further along, and you tin spot archetypal gameplay for it below.

Where the archetypal Cuphead sucked successful players with its committedness to visuals inspired by old-school cartoons, Mighty Cuphead Adventure looks similar a much retro-inspired experience. In its archetypal trailer, we tin spot some Cuphead and Mugman transmission the look and consciousness of 8-bit arcade-style video games.

While the adjacent mainline Cuphead crippled seems to beryllium a ways off, MDHR wasn't rather acceptable to denote a merchandise day for its Mighty Cuphead Adventure either. Its trailer besides refrained from sharing platforms, lone telling fans to expect enactment connected "modern consoles" and "personal computers."

Studio MDHR's 2 caller Cuphead games helped footwear disconnected tonight's show. For each of the biggest highlights from the show, you tin spot everything announced astatine Summer Game Fest 2026.

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