You and your friends run a kitchen, chopping vegetables, cooking dishes, and rushing plates to the counter before orders time out, all while the kitchen itself might be on a moving platform or splitting in half. Communication breaks down fast once the orders start piling up, which is usually where the real fun and the real arguing begins. It is built for local co-op chaos rather than solo play.
Gameplay video
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Screenshots & review notes
The verdict
A stress-inducing, endlessly funny co-op classic that turns cooking into genuine chaos in the best possible way.
The mechanics
Juggling stations under a ticking clock demands real teamwork, and difficulty ramps up smartly as kitchens grow more absurd.
Presentation
Bright, cartoonish kitchens filled with moving hazards keep every level visually distinct and full of personality.
Staying power
Essential for local co-op groups, though it can strain friendships as much as it builds them; solo play loses much of the magic.
Frames captured from the gameplay video above; notes are our own take on the game.
What it's like to play
You and up to three friends each control a small chef in a cramped, cartoonish kitchen, and your only goal is to follow incoming food orders by chopping ingredients, cooking them, plating the finished dish, and washing dirty dishes before time runs out. Each player uses simple movement and one button to pick up, chop, or place ingredients, and the layout of the kitchen itself is often the real challenge, since kitchens in this game can be split by a moving conveyor belt, set on fire, or literally floating apart on rafts. Your first ten minutes in an early, calm kitchen will teach you the basic loop of chop, cook, plate, and serve, before the game quickly adds a moving floor or another wrinkle to keep you on your toes.
Most of your time is spent racing against a timer across dozens of increasingly chaotic kitchen layouts, each one built around a specific gimmick, like an added ability to throw ingredients across a gap to a teammate on the other side, which becomes essential once kitchens start splitting apart. Difficulty ramps up by adding more complex recipes, more obstacles in the kitchen, and tighter timers, and completing levels well enough earns extra stars that unlock further levels and outfits for your chefs. A full campaign takes around ten hours together, and later levels genuinely require real coordination and calling out instructions to your teammates.
Session to session this thrives on the shouting and mild chaos of a shared kitchen, since miscommunication about who is chopping onions versus who is plating soup is where most of the laughs and frustration both come from. What may frustrate newcomers is that later levels demand real teamwork and can feel unfair if your group is not communicating well, and online play, while included, works best when everyone is in the same room. If you have people to cook alongside, this is one of the most purely fun cooperative games you can put on a Switch.