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SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake

Purple Lamp · THQ Nordic · 2023-01-31

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Franchise: Spongebob Squarepants · Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 31, 2023 (Xbox Series X|S), Dec 12, 2023 (iOS), Jan 31, 2023 (Nintendo Switch), Jan 31, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jan 31, 2023 (PlayStation 4), Oct 23, 2023 (PlayStation 5)

Wish-granting Mermaid’s Tears in the hands of SpongeBob and Patrick… What could go wrong? Sure, the very fabric holding the universe together could come undone, opening portals into wild Wishworlds. But that’s nothing our favorite sponge can’t handle- with the right cosmic costume!

49
playing now
92%
positive of 5.0k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
73/100
critic score (5 outlets, IGDB)
73/100
IGDB user rating (32 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$39.99
steam price (US)

49 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 UTC (census sample)

SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake is a 2023 platform game developed by Purple Lamp and published by THQ Nordic. The game is based on the Nickelodeon animated series SpongeBob SquarePants. The player controls SpongeBob, who, along with Patrick, journeys across several alternate realities called "Wish Worlds" to save their friends and the town of Bikini Bottom while collecting Cosmic Jelly for the mermaid fortune teller Madame Kassandra.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 49 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 546 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~68/week).
  • · Review velocity up 51% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 16% of 10,936 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 99k–223k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 4,963 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$7.99-80%
GOG$9.99-75%
Microsoft Store$39.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $6.68 at GameBillet (2026-04-24) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $39.99 · on sale 94 of 133 observed days · $3.31 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
64864820232026Week of 2023-01-01: 105 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 648 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 54 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 101 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 95 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 111 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 85 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 246 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 39 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 33 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 57 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 41 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 83 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 72 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 70 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 59 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 46 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

68162026-08-07 00:00 — 35 players2026-08-07 08:00 — 25 players2026-08-07 16:00 — 39 players2026-08-08 00:00 — 31 players2026-08-08 08:00 — 39 players2026-08-08 16:00 — 64 players2026-08-09 00:00 — 41 players2026-08-09 08:00 — 59 players2026-08-09 16:00 — 56 players2026-08-10 00:00 — 51 players2026-08-10 08:00 — 35 players2026-08-10 16:00 — 62 players2026-08-11 00:00 — 50 players2026-08-11 08:00 — 38 players2026-08-11 17:00 — 47 players2026-08-13 00:00 — 39 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 47 players2026-08-15 15:00 — 65 players2026-08-16 23:00 — 44 players2026-08-18 07:00 — 26 players2026-08-20 04:00 — 25 players2026-08-21 12:00 — 42 players2026-08-22 19:00 — 45 players2026-08-24 03:00 — 18 players2026-08-25 11:00 — 32 players2026-08-26 19:00 — 32 players2026-08-28 03:00 — 28 players2026-08-29 11:00 — 49 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 49 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$99.99$6.992022-11-142026-08-302022-11-14 — best price $99.992023-01-31 — best price $39.992023-03-12 — best price $39.992023-04-05 — best price $29.992023-05-01 — best price $29.992023-05-24 — best price $39.992023-07-13 — best price $39.992023-08-03 — best price $39.992023-09-04 — best price $19.992023-10-24 — best price $39.992023-11-23 — best price $13.992023-12-15 — best price $19.992024-01-18 — best price $16.702024-03-14 — best price $19.992024-04-10 — best price $19.992024-05-09 — best price $15.192024-06-19 — best price $15.992024-07-26 — best price $16.002024-09-09 — best price $39.992024-10-28 — best price $15.992024-12-02 — best price $33.402024-12-23 — best price $13.192025-01-14 — best price $13.202025-03-13 — best price $13.192025-04-14 — best price $29.742025-05-06 — best price $13.192025-06-05 — best price $39.992025-07-18 — best price $11.492025-09-03 — best price $13.192025-10-07 — best price $9.992025-11-21 — best price $8.312025-12-09 — best price $39.992026-01-10 — best price $39.992026-03-02 — best price $29.742026-04-03 — best price $39.992026-04-29 — best price $39.992026-05-31 — best price $39.992026-06-29 — best price $9.992026-08-03 — best price $9.992026-08-30 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

44
achievements tracked
85.7%
earned "Dress Up"
18.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

15 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Traditional Chinese…

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS5 (PlayStation)17,35926%44
PS4 (PlayStation)10,32430%44
Steam (Steam)5,63419%44
Xbox One (Xbox)1,79720%44
Switch (Nintendo)1760%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

FunnyActionComedyCartoonColorfulAdventureControllerOpen WorldPlatformerStory Rich

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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