SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated
Fair · Action · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER at $9.55, only fair at $29.99.
- Length
- 9h
- Value
- $3.33/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.
Are you ready, kids? The cult classic is back, faithfully remade in spongetastic splendor! Play as SpongeBob, Patrick and Sandy and show the evil Plankton that crime pays even less than Mr. Krabs.
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How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $5.99, set in May 2023. 49 discounts in the 6 years on record. They run about 67 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 14 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks. The math puts its BANGER price at $9.55. The record reaches that level 24 times.
On value it sits in the top 4 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Spyro™ Reignited Trilogy ($39.99, scores 68) beats it on value, while it beats SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake ($39.99, scores 51).
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 20 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written December 2021 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 1,973 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
52% start to 10% 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
Players
52 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
I hadn't played the original ps2 game, but I really enjoyed this one. It's a chill SpongeBob adventure also it got a little tough in the middle of the game. I can recommend this game to everyone & got so hooked that I beat it 100%
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/969990/spongebob-squarepants-battle-for-bikini-bottom-rehydratedThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 14, price as of Sep 24.
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