SpongeBob SquarePants™: The Patrick Star Game
Skip · Action · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 30, under the fair line, at $39.99. Fair at $6.12, lower than any Steam price we have tracked since Oct 2024 (lowest $15.99, Jun 2026).
- Length
- 3.6h 8.3h to 100%
- Value
- $11.11/hr
- Reviews
- 81% of 334 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at $6.12 or less.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 10 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Step into Patrick’s shorts and create hilarious, physics-based mayhem, as you make the open world of Bikini Bottom your playground!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, AMD Radeon RX 550 4GB / Nvidia GTX 750, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 21 discounts in the 2 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 10 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 49 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 80 percent. On the same math My Little Universe ($14.99, scores 72) and Goat Simulator: Remastered ($29.99, scores 57) are the better buys, and they are the games it most resembles.
More about SpongeBob SquarePants™: The Patrick Star Game
Of the 262 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 15 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,362 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 26 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it.
The main story runs 3.6 hours. Doing everything runs 8, 2.3 times as long.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 3.6 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
79% start to 13% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
I like it because I get to do all the jobs. My favourite one is shooting the coconuts. I get to hit targets and I get to break lots. The game is funny because he makes us do all these work things and we win. We had to burp all the people out of the sunbathing spot! Review written my my son, 4 years old
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
A few days ago, I broke up with the person I thought was the love of my life. This game was the only thing that stopped me from pulling my hair out and cry like a baby. For a while, it let me forget everything and genuinely switch my brain off. That said, the price is ridiculous. I'd recommend picking it up on sale for around €20 or even €10.
What a letdown. I don't want to be too harsh on a game that is clearly meant for a younger audience, but I can't ignore the sense of redundancy throughout the game. The two biggest problems that I had with it were how quickly everything felt started to feel redundant (even the music was numbing me) and how Patrick's mechanics felt underused during my 100% playthrough.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
SpongeBob SquarePants™: The Patrick Star Game scores 30/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2322380/spongebob-squarepants-the-patrick-star-gameReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.