Seemingly out of nowhere, SpongeBob: Krusty Cook-Off has just launched on the Nintendo Switch eShop in North America.
Known as 'SpongeBob: Krusty Cook-Off - Extra Krusty Edition', this new release is a redesigned, Switch-exclusive version of the award-winning mobile hit. The game has players working behind the Krusty Krab grill with the aim of serving lots of familiar faces you'll already know and love from the TV show; it originally launched on mobile in 2020 and has already surpassed 35 million downloads.
You'll be cooking up meals while interacting with the likes of Mr. Krabs, Patrick, Squidward, Sandy, and more, and fan-favourite locations like Sandy's Treedome are also present. You can collect and customise outfits, design and upgrade your own restaurants, and jump into 400 story levels on your "journey to be the best fry cook under the sea". Here's a selection of screenshots:
This Switch edition comes with some platform exclusives – like four unique cooking powers, extra challenges, and additional downloadable content – and is available starting today for $29.99. It's currently only available in the US, Canada, Mexico and Brazil, but a European and Asian release is expected "in the coming weeks."
Are you a SpongeBob fan? Will you be giving this new Switch game a go? Let us know in the comments.
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30 dollars for a mobile game?
Hard, hard pass.
That price point ha.
Sponge Bob is having us all on.
Jokes
I love Battle for Bikini Bottom Rehydrated, so will check this out, but I can't see me paying more than a couple of quid for a mobile game unless it's excellent. I'd much rather a new 3D platformer.
$30, IOs mobile game, and the only three metacritic review scores are 70, 50, 50. Granted review scores aren't the end-all, but it's not a great sign. I'm curious to see switch reviews.
Ooo i like playing this on my phone
Looks at price
.... Yeah I will still play it on my phone. 😬
Extra Krusty Edition? Welp, people are already Krusty about this game’s highway robbery price.
Which is Ironic given CheeseHead BrownPants’s employer is a a greedy, penny-pinching cheapskate tightwad, and many toxic fans were initially furious assuming that Kamp Koral was nothing but a soleless cashgrab done against the will of fans’ lord and savior: Stephen Hillenburg, in spite being made by Hillenburg before his passing.
Yikes! Do they really expect people to pay that much?
That price point is astonishing. Wow.
America can keep it, Europe will be better off without 30 euro mobile game ports
"Nickelodeon, what convinced you to release a free mobile game on Switch for $30?"
"Money"
Echo what everyone else here is saying about the ridiculous price. I guess it has content on it that you pay for in the free-to-start mobile version? Crazy!
More proof that Nintendo can port Mario Kart Tour to the Switch with controller support
@Noid lol
@Pacmanrace if they ported it with all the content and characters unlocked upfront without rotating tracks etc, it could be pretty good ngl
"More proof that Nintendo can port Mario Kart Tour to the Switch with controller support"
That's heresy, @Pacmanrace! Pure madness. (I agree. I'm so desperate for new Mario Kart content on the Switch that I'd rather have a port of MK Tour than nothing.)
I'd love to know how much all the DLC costs on the free mobile app.
$30 ?
Physical release, please.
These Diner Dash clones always make me snicker. ONE person dealing with every customer; you -might- get lucky and have an assistant in the actual kitchen, but odds are good that you'll be personally responsible for that, too. Now if only they made you deal with the logistics of restaurant management, too (like ordering your ingredients), then they'd be a perfect microcosm of the capitalist dream.
Pricing set by Mr. Krabs.
Does the mobile version have hella micro transactions to compensate me paying 30$ for this
@DoomTurtle I was going to say the same thing; you beat me to it. "I like money." - Mr. Krabs
Is this Spongebob's answer to Overcooked?
30 bucks for a mobile game?! I think not.
I played it on my phone, and it isn't worth 30 bucks. The game itself is fairly scummy in terms of how it's laid out. The gameplay's fun, but the microtransactions aren't. Most of the characters, who in which have different abilities, are locked behind a paid gacha system. All the upgrades are on a timer, so you have to wait for them to be delivered, and they cost gems as well as coins.
Then you have the piggybank mechanic, where they make you seem like you're earning gems every level and having them saved up, only to tell you that you need to pay to actually receive the gems..
I would buy this for my wife... if it was like 5 euro
@VoidofLight Typical scummy pay to play mobile game.
....Alright I'm gonna ask....
Mobile/Steam games that are normally free-to-play or super cheap....what's the difference between that and the Switch versions? Like, are they just wanting money or something?
Not planning on getting these games, but like I know some of the FNaF games are free on Steam, yet....they're $8 on Switch? Are they adding anything to these games? wtf? lol
OH MY GOSH +finally+ i can play the game on the switch, i really love this game it's just the microtransaction was blocking me from playing - and i ain't beat for giving them money at all, so knowing this just plopped onto the switch without the need of giving them money at all, annnnnnnnd there are over 400 levels, it's just gorgeous <3!!! i hope they continue to do this, that way more folks can enjoy mobile games on the switch without needing to pay money every stinking time for "upgrades", etc
we finished all of Salty Spitoon and all Goo Lagoon entirely in the Nintendo Switch (purchased game on the eshop) but the Last Chance Cafe says it is locked and all the other buildings in New Kelp City too.
There's no DLC available eighter.
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