If you've ever wanted all the stress of cooking in a busy kitchen without the reward of the delicious food that comes from it then look no further than the Epic Games Store this week.
Until 11th July Epic's free-to-keep game is Overcooked - a simple, frustrating, yet incredibly fun couch co-op cooking game that will make or break your friendships. Developed by Team 17, it's a top down game where you play as chefs running a kitchen and serving food in order to save the world. You can play on your own or with up to four friends (which I highly recommend for maximum inefficiency and laughs).
When people say communication is vital in gaming, I'm pretty sure this is game they're referring to. You'll need to work together to make dishes and fulfil orders in constantly changing kitchens. In solo mode you'll need to coordinate yourself as you switch to chefs in different parts of the kitchen. Each level in Overcooked will see you overcome new challenges - be that new dishes or new environmental events, such as cooking inside a rotating space station, or racing against time to serve your food before an earthquake separates the level.
The Epic Game Store’s giveaway du jour is the brillo Overcooked. A co-op cooking game for up to four (local only) about wobbly little chefs running around top-down diorama kitchens, preparing ingredients and serving dishes. Simple, except sometimes you’re trying to serve food during an earthquake, or across a kitchen built into multiple moving trucks. Good fun, and while its sequel improved on the recipe, you get a generous free portion with the first, including the Lost Morsel and Festive Seasoning DLC. Grab it here before another game takes its place next Thursday.
Halloween seems to come earlier and earlier every year, and this year it s co-op kitchen chaos simulator Overcooked 2 beating the rest of the pack to getting the vampires and ghosts out from the back of the cupboard. Night Of The Hangry Horde is a DLC that introduces a wave-based attack by the game s ravenous zombie loaves, the unbread, along with new recipes, chefs, and kitchens. Pretend it s October and take a peek at the creepy trailer below.
Overcooked 2, one of friendship's greatest trials, has been besieged by undead snacks in the new DLC, Night of the Hangry Horde. Instead of putting these rotting peppers and mouldy slices of bread in the bin, you'll have to feed them delicious meals so they don't turn their attention towards you.
To feed the waves of vengeful food, you'll be able to use a guillotine—for chopping ingredients, not necks—and a coal furnace. With them, you'll be able to prepare soups, fruit pies and roast dinners, which hopefully the undead will agree are much tastier than brains.
Feeding these zombies will also net you coins that you can use to repair the castle and unlock shortcuts around the kitchen. This is what happens when you build a restaurant in a crumbling old castle. Sure, it sounds like a cool location, but you're going to end up spending all your money on renovating it. I've watched real estate shows.
Accompanying the new modes are four new chefs—ghost, vampire, werewolf and a guy with a cardboard box on his head—along with nine new themed kitchens and three hidden kitchens. That's on top of the eight kitchens you get with the horde mode. So many opportunities to have arguments with friends.
Chris Schilling called it an entertaining but familiar sequel in his Overcooked 2 review, but the new mode sounds pretty novel. Some of the other modes have been a bit gimmicky, but this seems more than one-note.
Co-op cooking simulator Overcooked 2 keeps serving up new courses, this time turning to the great outdoors. Keep the fires lit and the food flowing, or you won t have very happy campers. Here s a trailer showing off the new mechanics, chefs, and recipes you ll be exploring among the trees.
Overcooked 2's latest DLC, Campfire Cook Off, is out now and you check out the co-op chaos for yourself in the trailer above.
Campfire Cook Off introduces 15 new levels with 12 new camping-related kitchens, new chefs, new recipes, and additional 'wood chopping' and backpack mechanics. If you've played the game at all, I think you'll agree that those all sound like excellent new ways to get mad at your co-op partner.
Overcooked 2's Campfire Cook Off is available now via Steam. If you haven't given the game a try, the base game is enjoying 30 percent discount until April 22, so now seems like as good a time as any to pick it up.