Overcooked! 2
Prepare and serve customer orders with a team of chefs, throwing ingredients across kitchens whose moving platforms, teleporters and changing layouts keep reshaping the work.
- AI score · out of 10
- 8.2 / 10
About this game
Overcooked! 2 puts you and your fellow chefs in charge of completing customer orders and serving as many dishes as possible before diners lose patience. Cooperation concerns both cooking and getting ingredients where they need to be: you can throw food across the room, navigate moving platforms and use teleporters while the kitchen changes around you. The journey moves between kitchens on an overworld map, taking the team through settings such as sushi restaurants, magic schools and mines. Each new working space makes its layout part of the task, alongside the orders themselves. Both editions support local and online multiplayer with up to four chefs. The central loop is to organize the team's work, adapt to the environment and keep dishes reaching customers.
Collected in topics
Party night
Bring a group together for lively rounds of competition or cooperation, with varied challenges and chances to join the action.
Category: Occasion
Collected in series
Overcooked is a cooking-action series about keeping orders moving through kitchens that seem determined to stop you. Chop ingredients, watch the pans and get dishes to the counter before time runs out. Shifting layouts turn a simple division of jobs into frantic teamwork.
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AI review
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Cooperative cooking for groups who like solving coordination problems together.
Throwing ingredients turns distance between chefs into something the team can actively manage. Changing kitchen layouts can then put the emphasis on adapting the plan, which suits groups willing to communicate and rearrange their roles.
Strengths
- Ingredient throwing gives cooperation a practical spatial element beyond working side by side.
- Changing kitchens can encourage teams to revise their working plan as conditions change.
Weaknesses
- Players who prefer a predictable workspace may find repeated adjustments less relaxing.
Who it is for: Friends who enjoy dividing a shared job and reacting together when routes or kitchen layouts change.
Play notes: The original Switch release also supports online sessions with Switch 2 Edition players.
View scoring basis
| Dimension | Review state | Score | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dimension Overworld travel between kitchens can give the team a sequence of distinct workspaces to learn and organize. | Reviewed | 7.8 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension The combination of orders, ingredient throws and layout changes can make cooperation depend on an evolving plan. | Reviewed | 8.6 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension The contrast between cooking and settings such as magic schools or alien planets may suit groups who enjoy a playful premise. | Reviewed | 8.2 / 10 | Not provided |
| Dimension Using one Joy-Con per local chef can make controller allocation straightforward for groups with enough compatible controllers. | Reviewed | 7.7 / 10 | Not provided |
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Core information
- Developer
- Ghost Town Games
- Publisher
- Team17
- Release date
- 2018
- Platforms
- Nintendo Switch
- Content kind
- Game
- Release state
- Released
- Region
- Worldwide
- Official website
- Not provided
- Offline minimum players
- Not provided
- Offline maximum players
- Not provided
- Online minimum players
- Not provided
- Online maximum players
- Not provided
- Tags
- Short SessionsResource ManagementOnline Co-op3D GraphicsFamily-friendlyTop-downArcade StyleSolo-friendlyLocal Co-opReplayableParty-friendlyHumorousFast-paced
- Supported game languages
- Not provided
- Requires base game
- Not provided
- Standalone
- Not provided
- Age ratings
- Not provided
- Play modes
- MultiplayerSingle playerCo-op
- Perspectives
- Top-down
Release editions
- Nintendo SwitchWorldwide2018
- Nintendo Switch 2WorldwideNov 6, 2025
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Sources
- www.team17.comSource revision: 1
- www.team17.com