Overcooked

Overcooked

Fair · Action · 2016

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 90% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$16.99Fair

Typical seasonal cut

$3.3980% offWorth it

Cost per hour▼
$2.18/hr
ReviewsA
90% of 16,852
Critics
81 players 9 higher
Genre rank
Top 5% Action

Holding it back: Cost per hour

Why
It needs 21% off ($13.40) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.39 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
7.8h
To 100%
12h 1.5x the story
Achievements
12

Price and sales

Sales
90 on record
Typical cut
75% off
Steam low
$1.69 December 2025
Sale every
42d last October 2026
Lowest now $16.65 at Fanaticalall-time low $1.69 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
115 now
Recent reviews
93% 30 days
Cheaper than
12% of its genre
Better reviewed
96% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

74% start to 3% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

Across all 90 discounts in the 10 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Its score puts it in the top 5 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Overcooked! 2 ($8.49, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats Tools Up! ($19.99, scores 36).

More about Overcooked

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 February 2023 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 74 percent of the 2,915 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 21 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.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 31 days ago.

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
MonetizationNone
No in-game purchases. Paid DLC exists and is not docked
Holding it back
Cost per hour$2.18/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
Refunds27 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

Ily overcooked this game is so peak i love this game play this game if you wanna have a great time ily overcooked franchise
NobRecommendedafter 9.8h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam
1 more review, not recommended
Do not get if you plan to play with players in other countries. Dev forgot what optimization means, and you are guaranteed to have lag issues. They have yet to fix anything so I will not get anything else from this dev. Played this in October 2026.
Capt.FluffyNot recommendedafter 4.1h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

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.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

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.

Cite this score

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Overcooked scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/448510/overcooked
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 7, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+9
Critics81
Players90
Metacritic critics · 16,852 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperGhost Town Games Ltd.
PublisherTeam17 Digital Ltd
GenreAction
Released2016
Players1.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements12