#overcooked!

Cheekily, starting the game in the original Overcooked rewards the player with the 1g achievement “Lettuce Begin”, leaving your gamerscore uneven until you earn the 199g “All the Trimmings” for completing every level with 3 stars. It’s a challenge for sure, but with speedy reactions or a competent coop partner, it’s remarkably doable. Even your failures feel pretty fun so long as you don’t take it too seriously, and there’ll be plenty of good natured yelling between friends to keep them on task if your buddies are anything like ours.

The remastered version (“Overcooked! All You Can Eat”) features no odd achievements, so if you’d like to avoid the dreaded uneven gamerscore and bundle Overcooked 2 in there as well, that’s a pretty good pick, but we found it kind of clever that the original game used achievements to encourage perfecting every level. Even if you just want to play casually, Overcooked is great fun, and definitely worth checking out when you get a chance.

Pros:

• Fantastic pick for playing with friends

• Adorable characters are all unlocked in game without any microtransactions

• Punny achievement names and cooperative hijinks will have you laughing for ages

Cons:

• Quite difficult to master when playing solo