The outstanding couch co-op cooking game, Overcooked, makes its way onto the Nintendo Switch this week as Overcooked: Special Edition. What makes it so special? How about the full game plus all previously released DLC (i.e., the Lost Morsel and Festive Seasonings).
It's been rather incredible to see how much love Overcooked - a local co-op only title - has been getting these past few months. Entirely deserved, too, from my perspective. To celebrate the holidays, those fine gentlemen at Ghost Town Games are releasing an appropriately themed DLC pack for free.
Everyone, fire up your grills and get ready to yell at your friends/coworkers. Overcooked: Gourmet Edition is out in physical form.
Overcooked is one of the best cooperative games I’ve played in some time. It’s a chaotic bundle of friendly shouting, laughs, and high-fives wrapped in a bundle that seems all too simple. But buried within all of that is a deeper understanding about what makes for a quality co-op experience....
Ah, the joys of being a short order cook. You fry, you chop, you serve, and all of it just for a glimpse of joy on your customers' faces when their Eggs Over My Hammy finally arrives. Overcooked aims to condense that experience into a four player local co-op adventure in which you and three friends ascend from "The Barney Fife of Kitchens" to "Culinary Michael Jordan".
Ghost Town Games' Overcooked starts with a simple premise: work together to fix meals in a restaurant. A couple levels in, however, that task becomes much harder as you and your friends will be sliding scross ice floes, fending off rats, or trying to fix a soup in the middle of an earthquake. We spoke with Phil Duncan about where the origi...
One of my favorite activities outside of playing video games with friends is cooking meals with my wife. Our kitchen isn't big so there's a little bit of a hectic dance as we move around each other for counter space, but it's always fun. Apparently, the two-man development team over at Ghost Town Games also enjoy cooking cooperatively as their first title, Overcooked, is just that.
