The game design is perfect but the game is glitchier than its predecessors. Overcooked! 2 is the better experience and the only real reason I come back to this is for cross-platform multiplayer with my friends who don't have Switch. Playing through the campaign of the first game was fun, but if it wasn't for cross-platform, i'd be happy to delete this game and just focus on the much smoother Overcooked! 2.

That being said, the fundamental Overcooked! formula is still fantastic. If this was the only game in the series I'd give it a 4.5, but it pales in comparison to Overcooked! 2.

Awesome and very unique game! The story is very silly yet funny and engaging, and I can quite honestly say I've never played anything like this.

It's very fun to play multiplayer mode with friends and family, however I wish the single player mode was more balanced and level progression more consistent. The game is also not very optimized: a tad bit long loading screen times, some glitching here and there, and even minor softlocks within the levels. The classic mode is quite fun but I really enjoyed playing in practice mode and getting in the flow around the roadblocks of a particular level.

I really enjoyed both Overcooked 1 and Overcooked 2, I have to say though, the 'throw' mechanic becomes a very useful tool that I miss when re-playing Overcooked 1 levels.

These games are just made to test your love and your friendship. But they are very fun to play.

Ratings for each games:
Overcooked! --> 2.5/5
Overcooked! 2 --> 3/5

Average rating: 2.75/5

It's really just the definitive package for this series. It includes the main campaigns for the first two games along with a TON of DLC to go through. It's got hours and hours of fun and argument between friends (that may ruin friendships). I can really only recommend if you have 4 friends to play it in couch co-op. It obviously supports 1-3 players but I think 4 is easily the most fun. It also helps if they're ok at video games (and slicing the damn lettuce) but it's really not necessary as I've played this with family members who don't play video games. Anyways a great game with tons of content.
9/10

holy crap this has a lot of content in it. Honesty one of the stand-out games i've played this year. Keep in mind, friends are MANDATORY in order to play this properly, so make sure you have 2 or 3 people to play with. Otherwise, keep away since the single player and even two-player modes are not worth playing. However, be prepared for this to take not only a very long time to actually make it through all the games and DLC, as this contains Overcooked 1, Overcooked 2, and all of the DLCs for both. Also expect a lot of fighting between friends as people don't do their jobs properly, or just flat out do not cooperate. All in all, if you have the friends to play this with, I'd highly reccomend this game if you've never played an overcooked game before. For Overcooked veterans that have played 1 and 2 already, you already own all this stuff no need to really buy it all over again.

Edit: I've beaten the OC2 campaign. Throwing is a great addition and the stages are a lot better but 3star requirements are too low so it felt like we didn't really earn 3 stars compared to the stricter OC1 campaign. But my co-op partner is scared of 4 stars and there's all the Extra Trimmings anyway so...

I've only done the Overcooked 1 campaign (3 starred) so far but this game is kind of godlike for coop, while also being miserable. It all depends on how well you and your partners can coordinate and strategize. But that's what I love about it. It feels like a true coop game where both players (or more) actually have to work together. Too many games have coop that just really feels like simulatenous single player, and while I love those too in their own way, I just really got into how truly cooperative this game felt. It's also chaotic as fuck, in a fun way, but it can be tad stressful and some of the stage gimmicks (fuck 5-4 in OC1) are evil.

Don't even think about getting this if you don't have someone to play with already. Dunno or care about online but couch coop was a blast. Also I do wish scores retroactively unlocked 4th stars in NG+, as we did earn it for a few levels on our 3 star attempts.

Technically this is only a review of the Overcooked 1 content as me and my girlfriend finished the original version of 2 before rolling back to this to play the original game and the DLCs. This collection is fantastic and absolutely what you should buy if you're interested in playing Overcooked.

Switch port did experience a few stages with notable slowdowns that made the already hectic gameplay kind of annoying, but it happened in maybe 2 stages out of the 60 or so we probably cleared. Still worth picking up.