Netflix 'Overcooked! All You Can Eat' Review
A hilarious co-op experience with brilliant crossover extras and frustrating phone-first controls. (Tested on PC Web Browser)
Is the Netflix version worth your time?
When Netflix quietly dropped Overcooked! All You Can Eat onto their gaming roster on the 5th of March 2026, I genuinely let out a little cheer. I have spent countless hours yelling at my friends in this game on console, so seeing it accessible straight through a web browser felt like a massive win. However, my excitement was quickly dialled back by some frustrating input and interface decisions. Here is my completely honest breakdown from a browser-based play session.
01 The Core Gameplay
If you have never experienced the absolute madness that is Overcooked, imagine taking a relaxing cooking simulator and injecting it with pure chaos. You and your friends are tasked with preparing meals in kitchens that actively want you to fail. One minute you are chopping tomatoes on a normal counter, and the next, an earthquake splits the room in half and your perfectly cooked soup falls into a canyon.
This All You Can Eat edition is the ultimate buffet. Released initially in 2020, it bundles over 200 levels from the entire franchise, alongside every piece of historical DLC. The sheer volume of content is staggering. Furthermore, the inclusion of Assist Mode is an absolute lifesaver. It slightly slows the pace down, making it much more forgiving if you are trying to convince family members who do not usually play video games to join you on the sofa.
02 Exclusive Netflix Characters
What genuinely surprised me about this Netflix port is the cross-over content. You are not just getting the standard roster of cartoon chefs. Netflix has smartly dipped into their own catalogue to bring us ten exclusive celebrity characters.
Chopping onions as the Demogorgon from Stranger Things is a surreal experience that I never knew I needed, and you can also sprint around the kitchen playing as Eleven, Dustin, and Lucas. Fans of KPop Demon Hunters are also in for a massive treat. They have integrated a half-dozen characters from the hit animated show, including Zoey, Rumi, Jinu, Mira, Derpy, and Sussie. It is a fantastic touch that makes this browser version feel like a genuinely special edition rather than a lazy port.
03 The Unbread Campaign
In my browser session, when I reached the main menu and hit Campaign, the game dropped me straight into the Overcooked 2 storyline first. All You Can Eat bundles the wider series together, but this was the route my setup served up to begin with.
The opening sequence is an absolute riot. The Onion King, in his infinite foolishness, discovers a glowing, magical cookbook and decides to read from it aloud. This terrible decision accidentally summons the "Unbread". It is a delightfully terrible pun for undead, zombified toast and aggressive baked goods.
This brilliantly sets the stakes for the campaign I was shown first. Your beloved kingdom is under siege by spooky carbs, and your only defence is to travel across strange lands, chopping and frying your way through new recipes to put the Unbread back in their graves.
04 The Control Problem
Here is where my praise hits a snag. Before you even boot up the kitchens, the game preview screen suggests a broader set of input options than I was actually able to use in my browser test.
If you look at the game preview overlay in the image above, it explicitly lists keyboard, mouse, and controller-style inputs. In my browser test, however, the game still forced me onto phone controls despite that preview suggesting other options.
I spent an embarrassing amount of time trying to get my PC gamepad working before realising my actual playable route was scanning a QR code and using my smartphone as a digital controller. That might be fine for a quick novelty session, but for a fast, precision-heavy co-op game like Overcooked, steering everything through a flat piece of glass feels clumsy and far less satisfying than a proper pad or keyboard.
05 Final Verdict
In conclusion, getting a premium title like Overcooked! All You Can Eat included in a standard Netflix subscription is brilliant value. The exclusive characters and the sheer volume of chaotic cooking levels make it a highly entertaining experience.
However, the phone-first control setup in my browser session was a massive letdown. It is a fun party trick to connect multiple phones for a quick couch co-op session, and the addition of Netflix characters is a good bonus, but the experience would be far stronger if Netflix made broader, clearly supported input options easier and more consistent for desktop play.
