I played both Overcooked games during the last generation and had an absolute blast. The gameplay is best experienced with your friends and family while yelling at each other to "get out of the way." This series is one of the best party/couch co-op games available anywhere. Unfortunately, there's a bug that makes the couch co-op completely unplayable on the Xbox Series X/S - which is the whole point of these games. You cannot use multiple controllers with multiple XBox profiles - the game just simply won't let you add multiple players with correct controller assignments. If you somehow get lucky enough to get your entire party in (we've experienced problems with both 2 and 3 players), the game will crash back to the main menu anytime an achievement pops. Judging by ... MoreI played both Overcooked games during the last generation and had an absolute blast. The gameplay is best experienced with your friends and family while yelling at each other to "get out of the way." This series is one of the best party/couch co-op games available anywhere. Unfortunately, there's a bug that makes the couch co-op completely unplayable on the Xbox Series X/S - which is the whole point of these games. You cannot use multiple controllers with multiple XBox profiles - the game just simply won't let you add multiple players with correct controller assignments. If you somehow get lucky enough to get your entire party in (we've experienced problems with both 2 and 3 players), the game will crash back to the main menu anytime an achievement pops. Judging by the posts on Reddit, Twitter and a few other gaming sites - I'm not the only one with these issues. Judging by the support articles I've seen, they've known about this issue since launch and have done nothing to fix it. I love this series, but I can't recommend anyone buy this compilation (for Series X) until the developers fix these issues. If you're planning on just playing yourself...everything seems to function as intended. But all of the joy of couch co-op is completely missing.

Excellent family game for the living room! Overcooked is a casual yet intense multiplayer game where you sometimes want to throw the controller out the window, not literally. The cool part about the this version is that it includes the whole series + all the DLCs. The character are cute, the gameplay is challenging and addictive. Best of all is you can play with any friends online cross platform. This will go down the history as a classic for the PS5 and XBOX series X/S era!

If you own the previous 2 games and the DLCs, it’s really not worth buying this game for just the extra content (Ever Peckish Rising), which is only 7 stages. I don’t really care for updated graphics, because let’s be real, the game is too chaotic for anyone to notice ooooh the tomatoes look prettier that before. It doesn’t really add to the gameplay experience. The loading times are still horrendous compared to Steam/Xbox. There are some levels that are very glitchy. (Ex: In Ever Peckish Rising 2-2, after falling off the stage, the cooking progress bar would sometimes disappear and you can’t pick up stuff. This continued to happen even after restarting the level...and restarting the Switch).AYCE might be worth getting if you don’t already own the previous 2 ... MoreIf you own the previous 2 games and the DLCs, it’s really not worth buying this game for just the extra content (Ever Peckish Rising), which is only 7 stages. I don’t really care for updated graphics, because let’s be real, the game is too chaotic for anyone to notice ooooh the tomatoes look prettier that before. It doesn’t really add to the gameplay experience. The loading times are still horrendous compared to Steam/Xbox. There are some levels that are very glitchy. (Ex: In Ever Peckish Rising 2-2, after falling off the stage, the cooking progress bar would sometimes disappear and you can’t pick up stuff. This continued to happen even after restarting the level...and restarting the Switch).AYCE might be worth getting if you don’t already own the previous 2 games. If you have a Steam account, buy and play it there instead. Or have your phone or a book handy for the long load times.