Niche Spotlight – Overcooked: a Zany Multiplayer Cook-a-thon

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Happy Thanksgiving, Niche Gamer Nation! Today we’ll get a look at independent British developer Ghost Town Games’ wild and multiplayer-focused cooking game, Overcooked. Featured above, you can press play on the trailer and get a look at the game in action.

Players will be tasked with traveling through a variety of cruel and grueling kitchens on their quest to save the Onion Kingdom, and become a master chef, of course. You’ll have to work with your fellow chefs and prepare, cook, and serve a multitude of orders for your customers.


Offering a variety of game modes ranging from chaotic couch co-op to competitive challenge modes, you’ll be able to hone your digital cooking skills in a variety of ways and through various challenges.

Here are the game’s key features:

  • A CULINARY QUEST
    The Onion Kingdom is a rich world full of cruel and unusual kitchens for you to conquer. Take part in an epic journey and tackle an increasingly challenging and bizarre gauntlet of kitchens which will push your skills of co-operation and co-ordination to the very limits. Each level brings a new challenge for you and your team to overcome, whether it’s sliding around on a pirate ship, moving between speeding trucks, cooking on an ice floe or serving food in the bowels of a fiery underworld, each level will test the mettle of even the bravest chefs.
  • A WORLD OF FOOD
    The Onion Kingdom is a rich world full of cruel and unusual kitchens for you to conquer. Each level brings a new challenge for you and your team to overcome, whether it’s sliding around on a pirate ship, moving between speeding trucks, cooking on an ice floe or serving food in the bowels of hell itself, each level will test the mettle of even the bravest
  • SIMPLE CONTROLS/DEEP CHALLENGE
    Overcooked is so easy to pick up that anyone can join in the fun, but finding a team who can communicate and co-ordinate their actions when the pizza hits the fan, that’s when only a well-oiled team of super-chefs will come out on top!
  • DIFFERENT WAYS TO PLAY
    Whether indulging in deep fried local co-op or sautéed single player, as you play through the game you’ll unlock new levels, new chef characters and even competitive challenge levels which allow teams of two to engage in hard boiled head-to-head in the kitchen. However you want to play, if you think you can stand the heat, then get ready to enter the kitchen!

Overcooked is currently available for PC, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One – you can even grab the physical game disc for consoles at your preferred retailer.

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