Overcooked! 2

Overcooked 2 takes everything you know and love about the first game and kicks it up a notch to make a more satisfying and plentiful sequel. The kitchens are still the main highlight, boasting an insane amount of creativity and franticness. The new dishes are all great, and the new throwing mechanic, as well as a new combo meter, greatly enhance the overall Overcooked experience.

At the end of the day, Overcooked 2 is pretty much what you’d expect from a sequel. It’s core basics are just as manic and outright entertaining as they’ve always been, but the extra bits and bobs thrown into the mix keep things fresh, frantic, and help add a more nuanced, tactical edge to the action.

Its obvious caricatures aside, Overcooked 2 manages, above all else, to feel like working an actual busy restaurant job – you slave away for what feels like an eternity of non-stop, fast-paced work, certain you’re always miles behind where you should be, but then you count the tips at the end of the night and think “You know what? Not too bad.”