BBQ Simulator: The Squad

You take on the role of a backyard barbecue cook, working alone or with up to seven friends to prepare and serve food before everyone gets too hungry.

The cooking loop involves preparing meat and other food, choosing how to cook it, and getting it to the table on time. Players can split up the work and use tools such as grills, microwaves, blowtorches, and fire extinguishers.

The garden is a sandbox with changing weather, flies that threaten your meat, and side activities such as soccer and mowing. Players can customize their avatars, and the freeform antics include interfering with friends’ cooking and urinating around the environment.

Players who enjoy the game often praise its silly, chaotic sessions with friends, where cooking mishaps, stealing food, and disrupting one another can become the fun. Some also mention enjoying solo play or speedrunning. Other reviewers say the fun wears off quickly or that the cooking and multiplayer experience can be rough.