Last updated on January 16th, 2026 at 12:13 am
SpongeBob: Krusty Cook-Off – Strategy Game Review
SpongeBob: Krusty Cook-Off is a Strategy/Entertainment/Simulation game from Tilting Point LLC, first launched in 12th May 2020.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 172,471+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes SpongeBob: Krusty Cook-Off Stand Out
Let’s get cookin’!
Join SpongeBob SquarePants on a hilarious culinary adventure through the restaurants and kitchens of Bikini Bottom! When Mr. Krabs realizes there’s more money to be earned in the fast-food business, the penny-pinching entrepreneur sets out to expand his restaurant empire starting with a breakfast stand outside of SpongeBob’s house…and who better to help him run it than SpongeBob SquarePants himself?
Create your own Bikini Bottom kitchen, decorate and customize your restaurant, and get ready to serve up delicious food to your guests! In this fast-food cooking game, put your time management skills to the test and experience the crazy cooking action of the SpongeBob universe. Fire up the grill and get ready to cook!
Fun and Fast-Paced Cooking
Cook and serve up delicious food including Krabby Patties, pancakes, BBQ and more! Get behind the grill as SpongeBob SquarePants to provide speedy service to the residents of Bikini Bottom. You’ll serve tons of familiar faces like Patrick Star, Sandy Cheeks, Squidward and many more! Keep your customers happy and be rewarded with tips, likes and exciting bonuses! Start as a junior fry cook and train to become one of Bikini Bottom’s premier fast-food chefs!
Explore the World of SpongeBob SquarePants
Grill up delicious Krabby Patties in the Krusty Krab, Steaks and Ribs in Sandy’s Treedome, Hot Dogs in Weenie Hut Jr’s and much more as you explore familiar restaurants and new kitchens in Bikini Bottom, Goo Lagoon and beyond! New restaurants and cuisines are added regularly, bringing new cooking challenges and recipes to learn!
Upgrade and Decorate
Choose new furniture, decorations and more to add your personal touch to the restaurants of SpongeBob SquarePants. Upgrade your kitchen equipment to cook food quickly and provide faster service to your customers. Start out with a basic restaurant design and build your kitchen to one fit for an expert chef!
Collect, Customize and Get Cookin'
Unlock your favorite characters from SpongeBob SquarePants and dress them in amazing outfits inspired by the show! Now, upgrade your characters and get a variety of awesome skills and powers to help you cook in new and delicious ways with our revamped Avatar system!
Hilarious Storyline
Experience an all-new and exclusive SpongeBob SquarePants story featuring SpongeBob, Mr. Krabs, Squidward, Sandy and Patrick. Play through the hilarious storyline as you progress through the game and unlock new levels.
Join in Limited-Time Events
Earn amazing rewards and show off your food-making skills on leaderboards by completing awesome cooking challenges. Take your game on the road with Food Truck events, hone your craft in Serve Streak Challenges and more! With new events and challenges added every week, there is always a reason to stop into Bikini Bottom and get cooking!
FREE-TO-PLAY:
Please Note: This SpongeBob cooking game is a free to play game that includes optional in-app purchases. You can turn off the payment feature by disabling in-app purchases in your device’s settings.
Terms of Use: http://www.tiltingpoint.com/terms-of-service
Privacy Policy: http://www.tiltingpoint.com/privacy-policy
This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, SpongeBob: Krusty Cook-Off is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 5th January 2026
Recent improvements include:
Hey, Fry Cooks! In the latest update we've cooked up some bug fixes to keep your kitchens running smoothly! Thanks for playing!
Download & Availability
SpongeBob: Krusty Cook-Off is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get SpongeBob: Krusty Cook-Off on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
This game is so much fun but its hard to get stuff for you SpongeBob character it is fun it makes cooking games like this 10x more fun its a good game.
We really loved this game but now it doesnt do anything except for crash every five minutes.
Come on guys. Just sell the game to Apple Arcade so we can play a high quality version of this game without 478 ads to deal with. And $10 a WEEK to remove them? $40 a month for a SpongeBob game? Gross and greedy.
The game itself is fun to play, but now it forced add after every single level. It sucks when you play a 60 second level and then have to sit through 20 seconds of ads.
Fun game but you have to watch a ad after every round, and it freezes all the time.
Jeffy turned evil because his dad didnt get him this also adds.
Loved this game but we cant really play anymore because we have -141,532 coins and need kitchen upgrades. And how come when we beat a level we still lose a life? Super annoying.
Overall, its a fun game, but we feel like its very paid to win once you get in a higher episodes and you need to upgrade but theyre not giving you the right amount of gyms to upgrade. Also, the ads after every level is egregious.
The app was good when we first started but now that Im pretty far into the game its just stuck on the intro screen. Ive tried uninstalling and reinstalling it a million times with nothing happening.. We really like this game why wont it load.
This is the third time. We didn't get diamonds in the advertisement, and we spent gold coins and diamonds without upgrading materials. We had calculated just enough gold coins and diamonds the night before, and all of them were upgraded, and the gold coins were deducted, but we woke up this morning without themI'm so angry.
When this game start at 50% then nothing will happen we cant play it now.
Great game but FIX THE SWITCH VERSION!!!! Its better.
Game is completely glitched. We cant unlock decorations because it says we need to unlock level 0 on the weenie hut junior map. We have -8000 coins. All our bubbles from the other restaurants have disappeared even though we bought all upgrades and decorations and we tried to delete then re-download the app and now all our progress is gone and the game wants us to start from the beginning.
It is glitching it wont let us select awful.
Advertising after each game, well, we understand advertising, but at least you can do less.
This game is so fun, it has multiple maps with different foods you can cook for customers. We will say there are ads after every level & you can watch ads for gems & to speed up your store deliveries but you can pay $1.99 a week for no ads and infinite life we absolutely love this game so much its consumed so much of our time lol.
Its almost like im in the krusty krab while playing this.
We really like this game the only thing that annoys us is how often the game crashes like if we just got done in a event before it shows us where we are at on the leaderboard the app crashes.
Ok so you know how on adds the game looks so fun and you think its the best game in the world well you get the game and it is nothing like the adds and its the worst game in the history of the world? Well this is not that game you see the add and it cooking and serving stuff in a certain amount of time you get the game and it the same exact thing!!!!!!!!!! Only one thing though at the beginning you have to make panckackes and we dont really get why tho we personally would want to make krabby Patties but thats just our opinion we think that games should be adv,errised for what there like. But yeah you should totally get this game and now Im going play this game.
Love this game its fun but also very cute we love SpongeBob so much we love this game.
We were doing a tutorial, but then randomly we couldnt do anything.
PLEASE FIX THE BUG WHERE we BUY A DECORATION AND IT DOESNT REGISTER!!!!! We love the game so much but we cannot complete any restaurants because of this! It takes our money but doesnt give us the upgrade. We love the game so much but this makes it not enjoyable.
We LOVE this game, dont get us wrong. But im constantly having issues within the game. Im unable to get all of the floor patterns on some of the restaurants. At one log in the fry cook games will be open but if we log off for an hour or two theyll be closed BUT if we log on a few hours later theyll be open again. Just little things but we still love the game otherwise.
Stuff doesnt show up and we have to restart the game multiple times.
Been having issues with not having it freeze on us, even closing and reopening the game keeps us frozen on the same spot. Please fix makes it unusable unfortunately but other than that its a swell game.
Theres Lots a Weird/Funny Bugs.
Hello Tilting Point LLC! We want to play the game because we have a soft spot for time management mobile games since we were little! Unfortunately though, when we finished level 7, Im somehow stuck with the Slay the Spice popup while the tutorial is currently playing. We tried to tap the BargN-Mart icon and anywhere else before the Slay the Spice popup appears on our screen, but the game wont let us continue. As of now, we have to wait for TWO WEEKS for the Slay the Spice event to end if that bug doesnt get patched. We wont be able to tap the settings or check out the support section in the game either because of the Slay the Spice popup and the tutorial It would be great if you guys have fixed that issue as soon as possible! Update: the bug we mentioned has been fixed, its just that if the game randomly starts to include bugs, we have to leave the game alone for a while until we can come back to play. Speaking of bugs, whenever we buy something from the Barg-N-Mart, we still have to wait for a certain thing arrive until we can buy something else or leave the game alone, and the game would automatically send us to Bikini Bottom every time we tried to exit out of Barg-N-Mart. Also, the Game Center achievements wont work for us for some reason. We signed in with our Apple account, which worked, but the game tells us we have to sign in with our Game Center account for some reason? All in all, Im still leaving this review 3 stars. The game was fun while it lasted, but please do better next time.
We used to play a lot of Diner Dash, and this reminded us immediately of that. The story is paper thin and written by people who clearly dont really know the characters. The ads are pervasive, often causing issues with the game. You can buy this on Switch and never have these issues. Play there for a more enjoyable experience.
Love the game its supper fun. But the game freezes to easily when we open the app it freezes on us or when we start to play the game very annoying.
On top of the ads being annoying but understandable; the amount of time you have to quit the app is absurd! Having to delete the app or quit it multiple times before actually playing an around or 2 (if your lucky) takes the joy out of it. Its a fun game to play but, we cant enjoy it without it glitching terribly. We are a fan despite our feelings of the app performance. We truly hope that updates for these issues are on the way.
Extremely buggy. Our phone isnt old and has enough storage to handle this game but we cannot load any levels properly.
We really enjoy this game. Ive been playing for quite a while now. Theres so many ads and you kinda have to watch them in order to rank up quickly. Also when you hit certain levels it gets super glitchy to the point you cannot advance which is disappointing. Im hoping they issue an update with bug fixes.
We love this game. We purchased the no ad option. There seems to be a constant glitch in the system where when we start a game, the game is frozen. No customers come in and Im unable to cook. We have to delete the app and redownload it in order to play the game. Im not sure if its an IPhone 13 thing but our friend has the same issue.
Randomly will freeze when trying to play a level.
Its so fun, but half the time it doesnt work.
We were playing and having so much fun cause its a good game. It really is. It just isnt fun when you run and do something you cant do when we were trying to play another match. SpongeBob said we need to spruce up this place and it said go to bargain market, but we couldnt click on it because it was out of our screen and so we reload the game still didnt work, but we noticed that every time we login the button will jump up so we re-login and finally get the click the bargain mark button, but SpongeBob is still saying the same thing that we need to spruce up this place and go to bargain market so that didnt work thats the only problem that we had if they would fix it then we would love to play this game again.
Loveeeee playing this game but there is a glitch issue. When we go to begin our current level, all the food and decor disappears. We close the game and restart it but it happens again. And its the same thing whether we use cellular or Wi-Fi. Please fix this.
We love the game but sometimes when we load into a level it bugs out and doesn't load anything causing us to lose a life for no reason and the only way to fix it is to uninstall and reinstall its so annoying fix this ASAP.
Fun game, but as soon as Level 17 there are no plates and therefore you cant even play the round.
This game will continue crashing after the 30th level.
Got to level 18. When we click to play none of our food or equipment is out and customers dont show up. We closed the app and left the level and its taking away our lifes. Hope yall can fix it.
We like the feeling of the game, and its fun and all, but ads after every level and being bombarded with potential micro transactions just makes us angry. It really doesnt feel worth it when we complete a level and then the homescapes girl is cutting mold off her tomato. They really dont do quality control on this stuff. What even is homescapes about? Anyways, the game doesnt even look that good, and the character writing is stale. The way theyre animated is sort of unnerving too. This really just feels like soulless, lets-put-spongebobs-face-on-a-game-that-already-exists cash grab. Edit: thank you automated developer response of just buy our transaction.
After New update all the sounds disappeared How can we fixed.
No food, no customers, and continue to lose hearts so we can barely play the game please fix.
There is a bug and kept freezing up on our iphone 13 but we love this game so much but it kept freezing up when im about to play and kept deleting it and downloading it back but nothing still does the same as before.
We remember playing this game as a kid and it was back then probably one of the best games we had ever seen! We love SpongeBob even at our current age and playing this game gives us huge nostalgia. Awesome.
Its a good game but sometimes when we play it does a weird thing in the pancake level where none of the fish and items are here the kitchen is empty so please fix the bug.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 5.10.3
- Size: 297.54 MB
- iOS: 15.0 or later
- Languages: AR, EN, FR, DE, HI, IT, JA, KO, PL, PT, RU, ZH, ES, TR
- Content Advisory: Loot Boxes
- Developer: Tilting Point LLC
Last updated: 5th January 2026 | Genre: Strategy, Entertainment | Developer: Tilting Point LLC