In the vast world of couch co-op and multiplayer games, the cooking genre has really taken off in recent years. There are now a great number of games available to play that feature chaotic kitchens, complex meals, picky customers, and a lot of laughing and yelling at friends for burning the pasta… for the third time in a row.
If you're looking for new co-op games to enjoy, or to dip your toe into the kitchen, you might wonder which games are worth picking up. Just sit back, relax, and don't forget to turn off your stove as we explore the best co-op cooking games available.
8 Kebab Chefs! — Restaurant Simulator
The Top Kebab
In Kebab Chefs, players are tasked with building and managing their own kebab shop and making it one of the finest eateries in town. While the game can be played solo, it offers a fantastic co-op mode where up to four players can get involved in cooking and filling out orders.
You are able to design your own restaurant, as well as choose the types of food you serve, offering a great amount of customization. As you expand your repertoire of recipes, your shop will begin to flourish, opening up new opportunities for you as you progress.
7 Cook, Serve, Delicious!
From Rags To Riches
For those seeking a challenge, Cook, Serve, Delicious is an easy-to-learn but difficult-to-master cooking game that will challenge players to be the very best chef they can be. Starting with a lowly restaurant, you will work your way up to having a famous five-star eatery.
The game also offers a co-op mode, where players work together in the battle kitchen to complete orders. There is also a two-player campaign mode where one person takes the role of expediter and gives orders to the other player, the chef.
6 Space Food Truck
Cosmic Dishes For the Cosmos
Space Food Truck is a unique four-player game where each player assumes a specific role, and all work together to manage their food truck as it explores the galaxy. While exploring, you and your team will be searching for ingredients, cooking, and completing your recipe objective.
Each player must leverage their chosen role's specific talents and abilities in order to succeed. Planets will go hungry if anything goes wrong out in space and with your food truck, so be prepared for every eventuality while feeding the galaxy.
5 Let's Cook Together
Two Player Fun
Another two-player experience, Let's Cook Together, focuses wholly on the task of getting two people to work together in unison. One player will have certain tools or ingredients on their side of the map that the other player needs, and vice versa.
By passing the necessary objects to each other, you will be able to complete your orders effectively and efficiently, all while unlocking new levels to play through. Trust your partner, and work together to succeed.
4 Overcooked
Cooking Under Pressure
A classic in the genre, Overcooked is as fun as it is chaotic to play. While you can play it solo by controlling two characters simultaneously, the real fun and challenge begins when you add your friends to the mix.
Throwing food, falling off ledges, and putting out raging grease fires are par for the course as you do your best to serve as many customers as possible before time runs out. Once you earn enough stars from each level, you will unlock more difficult levels and challenges to face together. One of the many co-op games that is fun for the whole family.
3 Overcooked 2
A Tasty Sequel
As a sequel, Overcooked 2 offers everything its predecessor does and more. Much more. From wild new levels to new recipes and ingredients to learn how to use, Overcooked 2 will have you cooking up a storm for hours.
The co-op mode is also just as zany and fast-paced as the original as well, offering more variety and chaos to sink your teeth into. Do your best not to drop your hard-cooked food (or yourself, for that matter) into a gaping chasm, and soon, you will become the chefs that save the Onion Kingdom once more!
2 One-armed Cook
Physics Don't Fail Us Now
If games with wacky physics are your thing, then One-armed Cook is the title for you. A team of up to four players will need to work together to manage a restaurant, with only one arm each, a mighty challenge to be sure.
Cooking meals, waiting on tables, and even pest control are just some of the duties you will need to attend to, all while dealing with physics-based gameplay. Even better, the base game is free to download, so give it a try if you're feeling bold enough.
1 PlateUp!
What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Running your own restaurant with friends has never been more fun than with Plate Up, one of the best co-op cooking games out there. After choosing a layout and signature menu item, players will work together to build their new restaurant chain from the ground up, purchasing new tools, tables, dishes, and more with the money they earn.
The limited space in each building and complex, even sometimes unfair, recipes you unlock will challenge everyone to the limit as they work together to keep from going out of business. Embrace the chaos, and thrive in it. Your friendships will, hopefully, be stronger by the end of it.
