Overcooked: Special Edition Launches on Nintendo Switch This Week

Today, Team17 announced that Overcooked: Special Edition will be launching on Nintendo Switch this week! The game will finally hit the Nintendo Switch eShop on July 27 for $19.99, as revealed in this short (but sweet) announcement trailer. Watch above.

"Overcooked: Special Edition includes the Overcooked base game plus The Lost Morsel and Festive Seasoning additional content and, with Nintendo Switch, players will be able to take the Overcooked experience anywhere they like, with HD Rumble adding a whole new element to the cooking chaos!"

If you're late to the party, Overcooked! is an award-winning multiplayer game that tasks you and your friends with staying in control of varied, chaotic kitchen sets, serving bizarre patrons all kinds of delicious food. You'll prepare, cook, serve, and clean together, and teamwork is absolutely vital to your success. Things get really crazy really fast, and this is the type of game that will have you gasping through fits of laughter or else severing ties with your closest friends due to their utter incompetence. The Special Edition coming to Nintendo Switch is absolutely loaded with:

• 44 campaign levels which can be played solo or couch co-op with up to 4 players

• 9 versus levels to play head to head locally with either 2 or 4 players

• 22 different chefs to play as. Choose a human, racoon, dinosaur, French bulldog, robot or even a reindeer in your quest for culinary greatness!

• A range of crazy kitchens to play across with different recipes to master - cook soup, burritos, burgers, fish and chips and more!

"The Onion Kingdom is in danger and only the finest cooking can save it. Players will journey through a campaign mode featuring a whole host of cruel and unusual kitchens on their quest to become master chefs capable of conquering an ancient edible evil which plagues the land!

"Traverse through the campaign solo or engage in classic, chaotic couch co-op for up to four players. You'll have to cook a range of different dishes and work together to become the ultimate cooking team! You can even go head to head in nine versus competitive levels for either two or four players."

If you've been looking for a game for you and your friends (or significant other) to play together on a shared Switch screen, Overcooked will fit the bill perfect -- even with your non-gamer friends! The inputs are simple and the game is easy to learn. Give it a shot and see if you can't cook up a rare weekend of well done fun! I'll see myself out.