Games Like Moving Out and Overcooked
Eleven co-op games where the job is simple, there are too many of you in the room, and somebody is always holding the thing you need.
- 11 games
- One of them mine
- Prices checked 8 Nov 2026
Moving Out and Overcooked found a brilliant trick: give a few friends an easy job, make it just slightly too hard to do together, and watch everyone fall out over a sofa. The game is fine. The arguing is the fun part.
Here are eleven more games built on that trick, from kitchens and furniture to trains, spaceships and a post office run by two kiwis. For each one I’ve put how many people can play and whether that’s on one sofa, online or both, because that’s usually the first thing you need to know.
One of them is a game I’m making about working in a furniture store. It isn’t out yet. It’s at the top because this is my website and I’m allowed, but it’s labelled, and the rest are on here on merit.
If you only read one bit
- Best on one sofa Moving Out Your friends are on the sofa next to you
- Best online Moving Out 2 Your friends are online, not on the sofa
- Best for two KeyWe There are exactly two of you
- Most depth PlateUp! You like planning as much as panicking
I made this one, so I’m biased
1. No Returns Allowed
Pomo Games (me)
- PC
- Mac
Price Not out yet, no price yet. 1 to 4 players, same screen and online
Pick it if you want to build the furniture, not just carry it.
I’m making this one, so I’m the least reliable person to tell you about it. You and up to three friends work the floor of a flat-pack furniture store. An order comes in, you find the box (it’s on the top shelf, so someone drives the forklift), open it, and build the thing from one instruction booklet that only one of you can hold.
There’s one screwdriver and one hammer. The screws are colour-coded, and a wrong one fits fine until the customer picks the thing up at the counter and it falls apart in front of them. Then the manager writes you a memo. You can play it alone (the wardrobe really wants two people, but you can drag it, slowly). It’s coming to PC and Mac, with no date yet.
Best on one sofa
2. Moving Out
SMG Studio and Devm Games (published by Team17)
- PC
- PlayStation
- Xbox
- Switch
Price £19.99 on Steam (often on sale). 1 to 4 players, same screen only
Pick it if your friends are on the sofa next to you.
You’re removal workers, and the job is to get everything out of the house and into the van before the timer runs out. Sofas and beds need two people, boxes can be thrown, and windows are just a faster door if you’re brave. Each job is its own short level, and there’s an Assist Mode if someone in the group needs it gentler. The one catch is that there’s no online play, only same-screen (or Steam’s Remote Play Together).
Best online
3. Moving Out 2
SMG Studio and Devm Games (published by Team17)
- PC
- PlayStation
- Xbox
- Switch
Price £24.99 on Steam (often on sale). 1 to 4 players, same screen and online
Pick it if your friends are online, not on the sofa.
More furniture, and the jobs now lead off through portals into stranger places as well as the old town. The important bit is that it added online play, with cross-play between platforms, so you can finally drop a fridge on a friend who lives in another city. If you’re choosing between the two and want to play online, get this one.
4. Overcooked! All You Can Eat
Ghost Town Games and Team17
- PC
- PlayStation
- Xbox
- Switch
Price £29.99 on Steam. 1 to 4 players, same screen and online
Pick it if you want the one everyone already knows.
The kitchen one. Chop, cook, plate and serve orders before they time out, in kitchens that split in half, slide about or sit on the back of a moving lorry. This edition is both Overcooked games remastered together, 200-odd levels, with online play and an Assist mode. If you only want the second game, Overcooked! 2 is £19.99 on its own, is often much cheaper in a sale, and runs on Mac and Linux too.
Most depth
5. PlateUp!
It’s happening (published by Yogscast Games)
- PC
- PlayStation
- Xbox
- Switch
Price £16.75 on Steam. 1 to 4 players, same screen and online
Pick it if you like planning as much as panicking.
Overcooked with a planning half. You cook and serve during the day, then between shifts you buy new kit and rearrange the whole kitchen, and eventually you’re building conveyor belts that do the work for you. A run lasts fifteen days in one restaurant, and some unlocks carry over to the next. It’s slower and more thoughtful than Overcooked, and the arguing moves from “where’s the plate” to “who put the bin there”.
6. Tools Up!
The Knights of Unity (published by Untold Tales)
- PC
- PlayStation
- Xbox
- Switch
Price £16.75 on Steam. 1 to 4 players, same screen only
Pick it if you want Moving Out with paint rollers.
You’re decorators doing up flats against the clock: painting walls, stripping wallpaper and moving the sofa out of the way, all from a blueprint. It’s the closest thing on this list to Moving Out’s “we’re just doing a normal job badly” feeling. Like Moving Out, it’s same-screen only, unless you use Remote Play Together.
7. Unrailed 2: Back on Track
Indoor Astronaut
- PC
- Mac
- PlayStation 5
- Switch
Price £16.75 on Steam. Up to 4 players on one screen, more online
Pick it if you like a deadline you can see coming.
A train is coming and it will not stop, so you’d better lay track in front of it. That means chopping trees, mining iron, crafting rails and putting them down, all while the train creeps closer. The maps are different every run. It came out of early access in June 2026. The first Unrailed! is still on sale too, and it’s the one with the rule I love: there’s only one of each tool.
Best for two
8. KeyWe
Stonewheat & Sons (published by Fireshine Games)
- PC
- PlayStation
- Xbox
- Switch
Price £19.99 on Steam. 2 players, same screen and online
Pick it if there are exactly two of you.
Two kiwi birds run a post office. They have no hands, so to type a telegram they jump on the keys, and to send a parcel they slam into the levers. It’s strictly a two-player game (alone, you steer both birds), which makes it a nice pick for a couple rather than a group.
9. Totally Reliable Delivery Service
We’re Five Games (published by Atari)
- PC
- Mac
- PlayStation
- Xbox
- Switch
- iOS
- Android
Price £12.79 on Steam. 1 to 4 players, same screen and online on PC
Pick it if your group would rather mess about than win.
Floppy ragdoll couriers delivering parcels around an open world, using vehicles, odd machines and whatever else is lying about. It’s much looser than the others: no tight timed levels, just a sandbox where things go wrong in physics-y ways. Good for a group that wants to mess about more than score points.
10. Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
Asteroid Base
- PC
- Mac
- Linux
- PlayStation
- Xbox
- Switch
Price £10.99 on Steam. 1 to 4 players, same screen only
Pick it if you want an older classic that still holds up.
You all share one round neon spaceship, and each station (guns, shield, engines) needs someone standing at it. There are more stations than people, so the whole game is running about inside the ship shouting about who should be where. It’s from 2015 and still one of the best at this. On your own you get an AI pet to help.
11. Embr
Muse Games (published by Curve Games)
- PC
- PlayStation
- Xbox
- Switch
Price £17.99 on Steam (often on sale). 1 to 4 players, online only
Pick it if everyone plays online anyway.
You’re a gig-economy firefighter on an app: put the fire out, rescue the clients, save their valuables, and fix whatever else is going wrong in the building. It’s silly and it’s a good laugh with friends, with 25 jobs across three districts. Worth knowing: it’s the only one here with no couch co-op at all. It’s online only.
If you need online co-op
Moving Out 2, Overcooked! All You Can Eat, PlateUp!, Unrailed 2, KeyWe, Totally Reliable Delivery Service and Embr all play online. Moving Out, Tools Up! and Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime are same-screen only, though Steam’s Remote Play Together lets a friend join one of those over the internet.
How I picked these
I went for games where the fun comes from splitting up a job and getting in each other’s way, not from fighting each other. That left out some great party games (Heave Ho, Human Fall Flat and Pico Park are more about climbing and physics than a shared job). Everything here can be played alone too, apart from KeyWe, where you control both birds yourself.
I checked every platform, price and link against the official store pages on 8 November 2026. Prices change and games get pulled, so if something here is wrong, tell me on the contact page.
Questions
What games are like Moving Out?
Moving Out 2 first, then Tools Up!, which is about decorating flats against the clock. Totally Reliable Delivery Service and Unrailed 2 have the same carrying-things-together chaos in different settings.
What games are like Overcooked?
PlateUp! is the closest, a restaurant game where you also design the kitchen between shifts. Unrailed 2, Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime and KeyWe have the same “too many jobs, not enough hands” feeling.
Is Moving Out online co-op?
The first Moving Out is same-screen only (or online through Steam’s Remote Play Together). Moving Out 2 added proper online play with cross-play.
Are there co-op games about building furniture?
That’s what No Returns Allowed is, the game I’m making: you and up to three friends build flat-pack furniture for customers in a store. It isn’t out yet. Tools Up! is the nearest you can play today.
No Returns Allowed
A co-op game about building flat-pack furniture for customers who check your work. It’s coming to PC and Mac. Wishlisting on Steam is the best way to hear when it’s out, and it genuinely helps.
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