Microsoft’s Play Anywhere cloud saves helped me beat Cuphead

Cuphead is hard, but I beat it. I don’t think I would’ve enacted my revenge on the devil if it wasn’t for Microsoft’s Xbox cloud sync, though. This enabled me to pick up from where I left off on the game whether I was playing on my desktop, laptop, or Xbox One, and I’m not just using this as an excuse to tell everyone that I beat Cuphead … which I did do.

Syncing saves in t`he cloud isn’t some groundbreaking concept. Steam and many of the consoles have had it for years, but I love the way it works with the Xbox app across Xbox One and PC. I got Cuphead through the Windows Store, and that meant I also could play it on Xbox One as part of Microsoft’s Play Anywhere program. That came in handy a few weekends ago when I took a roadtrip out of state and got that Cuphead craving in my hotel room. I was happy that it ran on my laptop, but I was even more thrilled that logging into my Xbox Account forced the game to sync and bring up my game in the exact state I left it back in Denver.