Overcooked! 2 - Campfire Cook Off is an action, indie, and casual cooperative cooking game that expands the base Overcooked! 2 experience with a woodland camping theme. Players manage kitchens under time pressure while serving meals to hungry campers across new outdoor settings. The content requires the base game and focuses on teamwork in fast-paced scenarios where coordination determines success.
Gameplay
Teams of chefs work together in kitchens set among tree-tops and campsites. Core tasks include chopping ingredients, cooking on skillets and fires, plating dishes, and delivering orders before timers run out. A new mechanic requires chopping wood to maintain burning fires that cook the food. Wearable backpacks allow chefs to carry extra ingredients for the group, reducing trips back to stations and increasing the need for precise handoffs between players.
Four new chefs join the roster: the Explorer Chef, Bear Chef, Beaver Chef, and Owl Chef. Each fits the woodland environment and participates in the same cooking chain as existing characters. Levels feature camp-themed foods such as hearty breakfasts and toasted S'mores, with fresh layouts that place stations across elevated platforms and open clearings. The emphasis stays on communication and role division, as one player might focus on wood chopping while others handle frying and assembly.
Game Modes
The DLC adds 15 new levels that integrate into the existing structure of Overcooked! 2. These include 12 regular kitchens and 3 Kevin kitchens, all built around the camping motif with tree-top walkways and campsite clearings. Players progress through these stages in the campaign format, facing increasing complexity in station placement and order volume.
Cooperation remains central, with levels designed to test backpack usage and fire management alongside standard cooking steps. No separate versus or arcade modes receive dedicated new content in this pack, keeping the focus on the shared kitchen challenges that scale with player count.
New Chefs and Features
The four added chefs bring visual variety suited to the forest setting without altering core controls or abilities. Backpacks serve as a shared inventory tool that players must manage collectively, often requiring one chef to load items while another retrieves or delivers them. Wood chopping introduces an extra station that must stay active to support cooking stations, creating bottlenecks when multiple fires need attention at once.
These elements layer onto the familiar rush of preparing multiple orders simultaneously. Breakfast items and S'mores recipes follow the same plating and delivery rules as prior content, yet the outdoor layouts force new movement patterns across bridges and around tents.
Is It Worth Playing?
Player reception for the Campfire Cook Off DLC sits at mixed levels, with 58 percent of reviews rating it positively. Those who enjoy the base game's chaotic co-op loop find value in the new wood-chopping task and backpack system, which add fresh coordination demands without overhauling the formula. The 15 levels provide additional campaign content for groups that have already cleared the original kitchens.
The pack suits players who prefer short sessions of teamwork-focused action in a casual setting. It offers no ongoing seasons or updates, as the content released in 2019 and stands as a one-time expansion. Groups that thrive on communication challenges in kitchen management will likely appreciate the camping twist, while those seeking major new systems or single-player options may find the additions modest. Availability depends on ownership of the base game on PC.
