Overcooked
Fair · Action · 2016
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $16.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 7.8h
- Value
- $2.18/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GeForce 8800 GT / AMD HD 6850 / Intel HD Graphics 4400 or above, 748 MB of storage. Windows only.
Overcooked is a chaotic couch co-op cooking game for one to four players. Working as a team, you and your fellow chefs must prepare, cook and serve up a variety of tasty orders before the baying customers storm out in a huff.
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.69, set in December 2025. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 89 in the 10 years tracked, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 87 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Overcooked! 2 ($6.24, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Overcooked! All You Can Eat ($39.99, scores 27).
The press gave it 81; the people who bought it give it 90 percent. A 9-point gap in the buyer's favour.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 27 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2023 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 74 percent of the 2,908 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 22 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 7.8 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
74% start to 3% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
61 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Super fun, and very friendly for beginner gamers, but things can get ugly :D I recommend buying the Overcooked! All You Can Eat game. It has both Overcooked 1 and 2, along with all the DLC ported into the Overcooked 2 engine.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Overcooked scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/448510/overcookedThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 14, price as of Sep 24.
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