If youвЂ™re really speeding through orders you might even need someone on dishwashing. One person might be in charge of chopping vegetables, another preparing and cooking meat, another on plating and serving. Once you have a group to play with and the basics are understood, the difficulty comes from working together in the ideal way.

The rest is pretty much common sense assuming the players have ever made themselves some food, so itвЂ™s perfectly possible to get together a group of non-gamers and have everyone up to speed in no time at all. One picks up or places items/objects, the other chops or carries out an action such as washing up. Thankfully this is a simple game to understand and learn, with only two buttons used. Having to manage the preparation, cooking, and plating, as well as switching between cooks, is a recipe for problems. Like I said, you donвЂ™t really want to be playing Overcooked alone. Working through the campaign also opens up stages for competitive play, which is the only other gameplay option on the main menu. You earn stars for each cooking session, and as long as you earn one youвЂ™ll unlock the next location.

With friends itвЂ™s a great deal of fun.ДЄ campaign of sorts sees you and ideally up to three friends (no online play sadly) cooking in a variety of kitchens as you work towards an event that could well end the world. On your own itвЂ™s near impossible at times. Introduce proper food (soup is what ill people eat), dynamically changing environments and an ever-ticking clock, and the whole thing can get rather stressful. Throw numerous different soups into the mix and even simple orders can cause problems. At the most basic level this requires you to take a tomato, place it on a chopping board, slice it, take it to the saucepan, cook it, then serve on a plate/bowl as soup. This food preparation вЂsimвЂ™ asks you to pick up, chop, cook, and plate various ingredients in order to have a meal ready to serve. You can play Overcooked alone, but itвЂ™s not advisable.

Overcooked review