The best cooperative game
Overcooked, cooking as a stress test for friendship
- Critic score
- 86
- Player rating
- 4.3/5
- Main story
- 11.6 h
- Genre
- Strategy, Simulation, Family, Casual, Action
Two complete games bundled together, hundreds of levels, and a very simple premise: prepare dishes together, in kitchens designed to make it impossible.
This definitive edition gathers Overcooked!, Overcooked! 2 and all their additional content, brought up to 4K, with online multiplayer integrated into both games for the first time.
The principle fits in one sentence: orders come in, you have limited time, and you must chop, cook, assemble, serve and wash the plates. Each step is trivial in isolation. The difficulty comes entirely from coordination — who chops, who serves, who fetches the clean plate while the rice burns.
The real opponent is the kitchen itself. Levels are built against you: worktops separated by a chasm, conveyor belts carrying ingredients away, a kitchen straddling two trucks that drift apart, slippery floors, rats stealing the food. The game never stops inventing ways to break the arrangement you just worked out.
The result is a game that forces communication. You shout, you divide the tasks, you appoint people to roles, and you start over. It is probably the catalog's finest title for four people on a sofa — and the surest way to discover how the people close to you behave under pressure.
Expect around twelve hours to get through both campaigns, more to chase three stars everywhere. Playable alone, but that is frankly not the point.