Let’s circle back round to my Overcooked co-op buddy - my actual, real-life best friend: my partner. Overcooked perfectly captures that same hell, unwashed plates, flying ingredients and all.īecause it is essentially a playable stress dream, it’s hard to quantify what makes it one of the best co-op games around.
I’m not proud of this, but I once threw a soft, cold jacket potato at my head chef’s head where it exploded upon contact. The ticket screen beeps with each new order and you start to lose track of who wants what as everything burns around you and you run out of plates. You spend your morning prepping and then everyone decides to eat at once. Yes, I was essentially a microwave technician who occasionally fried a thing, but let me tell you: kitchen work is hell. I know it’s not exactly Michelin star-quality, but I worked in a Wetherspoon pub in a dark period of my late teens, and I’d sometimes open the kitchen, cook all morning, go home, then wash and change to do the nighttime bar shift. Manage cookie settingsĪnyone who’s worked in a kitchen will understand the stress of that working environment. To see this content please enable targeting cookies.
Overcooked 2 made me shout "Just throw me the goddamn tagliatelle" at my seven year old. But when you do sync up and nail a round, there’s nothing quite like it. In China, players have nicknamed Overcooked “Divorce Kitchen” because of the sheer, unfiltered rage it manages to bubble up inside of your very soul. And in that umbrella of dumb shit, there’s Overcooked 2. Yes, I ate your last onion ring when you weren’t looking. When we do argue, though, it’s always about dumb shit: who has exerted the most effort in any given day? Where the fuck is that thing that I put right there and is now not right there? The kids have been hell so we’re snapping at each other over fuck all. We can talk things out, and little bickers are short-lived before one of us caves and asks the other for a cuddle. My partner and I don’t often argue anymore, 11 years into our relationship.
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