

Building sentences with stickers meanwhile is made tougher thanks to, once again, these stickers being scattered all about the place with some even on moving objects. Of course, none of these are as simple as they initially sound, the typing of messages, for example, done by running and hopping around an office and butt stomping on keys littered everywhere. You’ll either be typing messages on a telegraph machine, labelling and sending off crates, piecing together sentences with stickers or sorting and sending out customer’s mail. These tasks tend to fall into one of four different types.

After a brief tutorial that sees you learning the basic movements of Jeff and Debra, it’s then off to take on your first proper assignment. It’s hard to deny the cuteness of the two, especially as you watch them hop around a human-sized working environment picking up things with their beaks. KeyWe sees one or two players take on the role of Jeff and Debra, two kiwi birds who have just started their new jobs at the Bungalow Basin Telepost Office.

KeyWe is very much another one of those types of games, placing a firm emphasis on teamwork and keeping calm under high-pressure situations. In Overcooked 2, however, as you find yourselves hopping between moving trucks, dashing to cutting and cooking stations scattered in the most unhelpful of places or even slipping your way across ice, these simple errands suddenly become far more difficult and chaotic. Cooking a burger for example – I think we can all agree – hardly requires much more thinking than, cook the patty and place it between two buns. The brilliance of games like Overcooked 2 and Moving Out is in their ability to take otherwise fairly straightforward and ordinary tasks and turn them into something far more exciting and with an interesting emphasis on teamwork.
