Ready, Steady, Ship!

Ready, Steady, Ship! casts players as warehouse workers racing to pack, sort, and ship boxes across an increasingly chaotic conveyor-belt gauntlet, wearing its Overcooked-style co-op-chaos influences openly. This review's sample confirms the core premise delivers genuine fun with a partner, alongside a remarkably consistent complaint that follows the game across nearly every review, positive or negative.

Genuine co-op fun, when it clicks

Reviewers repeatedly describe the core loop as a good time with a partner. "Ohhh baby this game is fun if you are looking for couch co-op game," one reviewer with 141 minutes logged writes, describing the chaos as a highlight rather than a flaw. Another, who completed the game with their wife, describes it warmly: "This game is like a cozy version of Overcooked. None of the rage, but all of the laughs." A reviewer who fully completed the game with their partner over more than 3,300 minutes offers the strongest possible endorsement: "It's makes you to work together and coordinate your moves with your partner, what's even bounded us even more." The controls are also specifically praised for their accessibility to non-gamer partners: "I was playing with my girlfriend and shes not gamer but still quickly learned controls. Perfect for casual Friday evening."

A remarkably consistent complaint about vehicle controls

Set against that praise, one specific complaint appears with striking consistency across both the positive and negative samples: the forklift and crane sections are widely described as sluggish, imprecise, and frustrating. "Has potential, but: horrible forklift/crane controls," one negative reviewer writes bluntly. A positive reviewer who otherwise recommends the game states the same thing almost word for word: "Nice pace and interesting gameplay, until you feel like smashing the monitor when controlling the crane/forklift. Buy only during sale!" Another reviewer who fully completed the game echoes it precisely: "The fork lifts and cranes are the worst though!" This isn't a minor nitpick buried in a single outlier review — it's the single most repeated specific criticism in this review's entire sample.

Achievement data confirms the forklift problem directly

This review's own check of Steam's achievement data supports that complaint with concrete numbers. The "Forklift Certified" achievement sits at just 11.7% completion, one of the lowest rates among all 26 tracked achievements — well below achievements tied to earlier, non-vehicle sections of the game. That gap is consistent with reviewer reports that these specific sections are where many players stall out or lose interest entirely, rather than a case of reviewers overstating an isolated frustration.

The persistent request for online multiplayer

A second theme runs through the sample with similar consistency: a specific, repeated request for online multiplayer. "Such a waste not having online coop, games like this are made to play with friends, most people play with friends far away," one negative reviewer writes. A positive reviewer voices the identical concern: "very fun game, graphics match well with the style of game, i just wish there was online multiplayer and not just splitscreen." Steam Remote Play Together is available and multiple reviewers confirm it works reliably as a workaround, with one specifically noting "the remote play through steam didn't have any issues connecting." But Remote Play Together requires one player to own and run the game while streaming to the other, which is a meaningfully different experience from native online multiplayer, and this review found no event in Steam's own partner feed confirming that dedicated online play has been added.

Bugs and late-game polish

Several reviewers report specific, replicable bugs beyond the vehicle-control complaints. One writes that "the game has lots of bugs and those bugs affects even simple things like walking or camera moving, leave alone those causing characters stuck in wall or distortion." A separate reviewer, playing in couch co-op, reports that "2 out of the 3 mini games played ended up getting stuck because a box ended up in a spot that it couldn't recover." Multiple reviewers, including some who otherwise recommend the game, also describe a noticeable drop in polish in the later levels specifically: one calls them "incredibly frustrating, putting a sour final note" on an otherwise fun playthrough.

What the update record shows

Steam's own partner-events feed documents genuine, sustained post-launch support: named patches (1.1.0, 1.2.0), a dedicated "Factory Hotfix," and a "Let's Party" content update all followed the April 2024 launch, and the game later earned a Steam Deck Verified badge and award nominations. That's a real record of continued investment from the publisher, even though this review could not confirm the specific forklift-control and online-multiplayer requests raised throughout this review's sample have been directly addressed.

A note on sample size

This review's English-language sample sits at 37 lifetime reviews, notably thinner than most titles covered here, and that thinness is worth stating plainly rather than glossing over. The consistency of the forklift-control complaint across such a small sample, however, strengthens rather than weakens confidence in it as a real, specific issue rather than statistical noise.

Final verdict

Ready, Steady, Ship! delivers genuine, laughter-filled co-op fun for local players willing to look past its clunkiest sections, and this review's sample confirms real affection for its core box-sorting chaos. But a remarkably consistent complaint about forklift and crane controls — corroborated directly by a strikingly low achievement-completion rate — describes a real, unresolved rough edge, and the persistent absence of true online multiplayer will be a dealbreaker for players without a co-op partner in the same room.