SpongeBob seems to be having a major game moment

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For 25 years, people around the globe have been happily entertained by the strange adventures of sponges living in a pineapple under the sea, SpongeBob SquarePants. Over 300 episodes of the hit Nickelodeon animated series have told the story of the undersea fry chef and his friends, but SpongeBob SquarePants' adventures were not limited to television. Multiple movies, TV spinoffs, stage adaptations, books, comics, and of course video games have kept people captivated by the snail-holding sponge over the years. However, video games based on the world of SpongeBob only seemed to dwindle dramatically in the 2010s. That is until the surprise release of several SpongeBob games in the early 2020s, including one announced for 2025.



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The modern video game resurgence of SpongeBob SquarePants

For gamers who grew up in the early 2000s, many probably have fond memories of playing classic Nickelodeon video games such as Pretty Weird Parents: Breaking the Rules, Nicktoons Unite!and SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom. Due to nostalgia for this era of gaming, THQ Nordic commissioned Purple Lamp Studios to develop a remake of Fight for modern audiences and platforms in 2020 named SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated. while Rehydrated received mixed reviews, was a financial success selling over 2 million copies by 2021. This success inspired THQ and other game companies to develop more SpongeBob games and include the icon in several other games.


This revival of SpongeBob in video games continued for the first time with his appearance in 2021 Nickelodeon All-Star BrawlA Super Smash Bros-as a fighting game with all kinds of Nickelodeon characters, new and old. SpongeBob would appear next Hot Wheels Unleashed, Minecraft, Nickelodeon Kart Racers 3: Slime Speedwayand Fall Guys. In 2023, THQ Nordic and Purple Lamp Studios released a spiritual sequel to Rehydrated in the form of the new game SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake. That Rehydrated, Cosmic Shake was a third-person platformer that received mixed reviews but saw lower-than-expected sales, well below the sales seen with Rehydrated.


SpongeBob SquarePants latest video game

Despite poor sales of Cosmic ShakeNickelodeon continued to approve new video game developments in the world of SpongeBob, resulting in the October 2024 release of SpongeBob SquarePants: The Patrick Star Game. A third-person physics-based sandbox game, The Patrick Star game It stars SpongeBob's lovable, goofy best friend Patrick, a first for the video game medium. Here, Patrick can complete a variety of mini-games and short missions to earn dollars and enter the Fry Cook Games. However, ca Cosmic Shake, The Patrick Star game has received mixed to poor reviews so far.

SpongeBob SquarePants: The Patrick Star Game
was released on the same day as Patrick's voice actor Bill Fagerbakke's 67th birthday on October 4, 2024.

The future of SpongeBob SquarePants in video games


While SpongeBob's recent resurgence in video games has been generally mixed, that hasn't stopped the jellyfish fan from being the star in future games. In a recent trailer, a sequel to THQ Nordic and Purple Lamp Studios' Cosmic Shake has been teased, apparently completing a trilogy starting with Rehydrated. Little information is known about this upcoming Spongebob game, but it has a release date of 2025. This game is expected to be a third-person platformer and play similarly to both. Rehydrated and Cosmic Shake. Only a few gameplay clips were shown, showing SpongeBob walking around as a skeleton and his normal self in the dark, deep city of Rock Bottom.


As for the story, this new SpongeBob SquarePants the game appears to have the ghost of the Flying Dutchman as its main antagonist, as seen repeatedly throughout the trailer. The trailer was also titled “Official Halloween Game Trailer” and contains many scary scenes, so it could work for the Flying Dutchman to be an antagonist. A mysterious pink portal opens and pulls the buildings and buses into itself and apparently strikes the inhabitants with lightning. Bosses from previous games also appeared, such as Squidward who turned into a giant octopus and Miss Shell who appeared as a witch. Both SpongeBob and Patrick appear as little ghosts at the end of the trailer and will likely have to use these forms to help save Bikini Bottom once again.

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