Throughout your adventures, you and your teammates are trapped in a world that feels a bit like watching the ‘Great British Bake Off’ after a seriously misjudged dose of hallucinogens. While Overcooked could have easily been as dull as the digital dishwater you soon get acquainted with, what makes it brilliant is its bonkers setting. Tasked with cooking a wide variety of dishes under increasingly ridiculous conditions, you and your team all take up different roles in a chaotic kitchen. Unlike the plumber’s go kart sim, Overcooked doesn’t revolve around screwing over your nearest and dearest – it’s actually all about communication and teamwork. Yet, in this team-based extravaganza, chaos is the order of the day – and thankfully, Overcooked is as faithful to cooking as Mario Kart is to Formula One. In a medium where you can choose to slay dragons or explore the vast recesses of outer space, a game about chopping onions and doing the washing up with friends may not sound like thrilling escapism. If you somehow haven’t spent drunken nights yelling at a mate to slice tomatoes before lobbing lettuce at them across a moving raft, let me explain why Overcooked is such a delight. Four years on from its 2016 release, this culinary-themed classic has been reborn on next gen consoles via a remaster collection called Overcooked: All You Can Eat. I am, of course, describing the latest incarnation of indie co-op darling, Overcooked. Instead of a 29 year-old-human recreating online recipes, I’m an apron-wearing Platypus – and I’m screaming at a wheelchair-bound racoon to boil pasta on a hot air balloon. This time around though, things are a little different. Now, just as this nightmarish year crawls to an agonising end, a new console generation begins – and I find myself back in the kitchen once again. ![]() From the early days of lockdown where I felt motivated to experiment with new dishes, to slowly watching myself morph into something akin to a one-man Uber Eats investor, cooking – or my embarrassing lack thereof – has been one of 2020’s few constants. Looking back on 2020, it feels like most of this never-ending year has revolved around cooking.
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