I hate moving… with a passion. Sure, it’s necessary to take that next step, but no matter how much you prepare and plan, moving just always, always, sucks. Fortunately, SMG Studio’s new action-puzzle game Moving Out removes all the worst elements of the process, putting you in control of a cartoonish cast of characters whose job it is to get the items into the truck. By any means necessary.

Where Moving Out really hits home is in that same arcade-y, pick-up-and-play feel akin to something like Overcooked. Which is fitting since SMG just announced its partnership with Team17, the publisher behind the Overcooked series. The premise is simple, each level – a suburban home, a two-story office building, a chicken-swarmed farmhouse, etc – has a set number of key items that you’ve got to load into a truck. The goal is to do it as fast as possible, alone or with up to four friends. Sometimes that means jamming a queen bed through a bedroom doorway, hucking a box full of belongings across the front lawn, or grabbing a pig by its back-bacon and awkwardly wattling it toward the truck.

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Source: IGN.com Moving Out Makes the Hassle of Moving Chaotic, Couch-Coop Fun