cooking

Saving a small town from economic collapse by putting homemade fishcakes in a vending machine is exactly the kind of videogame escapism I’m here for. Unfortunately, with design that focuses on all the wrong things and many near-game-breaking bugs plaguing the experience, it’s difficult to recommend what should have been a great game. 4 / 10.

In a genre-defining triumph for cooperative games, Overcooked perfects the transmutation of an everyday task (cooking) into pure hilarity. Frantic chopping, cooking, cleaning, and dashing about cause mistakes on mistakes, and ever-changing environments usurp any reliance on a comfort strategy to keep you and your friends surprised and laughing the whole way through. 10 / 10.