Spongebob seems to be having a big gaming moment

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For 25 years, people all over the world have been happily entertained by the crazy adventures of the fungus that lives in a pineapple under the sea, Spongebob Squarepants. Over 300 episodes of the hit Nickelodeon animated series have told the story of the underwater chef and his friends, but Spongebob Squarepants' adventures were not limited to television. Several movies, television spinoffs, stage adaptations, books, comics, and, of course, video games have kept people fascinated by the snail-eating fungus over the years. However, video games based on the world of SpongeBob just seemed to decline dramatically in the 2010s. That was until the surprise release of several SpongeBob games in the early 2020s, including one announced for 2025.



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SpongeBob SquarePants – Official Halloween Game Trailer

SpongeBob SquarePants is celebrating Halloween 2024 by announcing an upcoming game in 2025 and celebrating some of his creepiest moments.

SpongeBob SquarePants modern video game revival

For gamers who grew up in the early 2000s, many probably have fond memories of playing Nickelodeon video game classics such as The Fairly OddParents: Breakin' Da Rules, Nicktoons Unite!and SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom. It was thanks to nostalgia for this era of games that THQ Nordic commissioned Purple Lamp Studios to develop a remake of it Fight for modern audiences and platforms in 2020 is called SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated. While Rehydrated received mixed reviews, it was a financial success and sold 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 return of SpongeBob in video games only continued with his appearance in 2021 Nickelodeon All-Star Brawla Super Smash Bros-style fighting game featuring all kinds of Nickelodeon characters, new and old. SpongeBob would continue to be featured in Hot Wheels are unleashed, Minecraft, Nickelodeon Kart Racers 3: Slime Speedwayand Autumn guys. In 2023, THQ Nordic and Purple Lamp Studios released another spiritual sequel Rehydrated in the form of the new game SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake. As Rehydrated, Cosmic Shake was a third-person platformer that received mixed reviews but saw lower-than-expected sales, well below the sales of Rehydrated.


SpongeBob SquarePants latest video game

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

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

SpongeBob SquarePants future in video games


While SpongeBob's recent return to video games has been a mixed bag overall, that hasn't stopped jellyfish fishing fans from being the star of upcoming games. In a recent trailer, a sequel to THQ Nordic and Purple Lamp Studios' Cosmic Shake was teased and seemingly completed a trilogy that began with Rehydrated. Little information is known about this upcoming Spongebob game, but it has a release date of 2025. It is expected that this game will be a third-person platformer and will play similarly to both Rehydrated and Cosmic Shake. Only a few clips of the game were shown, showing SpongeBob walking around as a skeleton and as his normal self in the dark deep sea city of Rock Bottom.


As for the story, this new Spongebob Squarepants the game appears to feature the Flying Dutchman Ghost as the main antagonist, as he is seen repeatedly during the trailer. The trailer was also titled an “Official Halloween Gaming Trailer” and contains many spooky scenes, so having the Flying Dutchman as an antagonist would work. A mysterious pink portal opens and pulls buildings and buses into it, seemingly striking residents with lightning. Bosses from previous games also appeared such as Squidward turning into a giant octopus and Miss Shell as a witch. Both SpongeBob and Patrick appear as little ghosts at the end of the trailer, and they will probably need to use these forms to help save Bikini Bottom again.

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