SpongeBob SquarePants: Plankton's Robotic Revenge is a 3D action-adventure game based on the SpongeBob SquarePants Nickelodeon cartoon series. Plankton finds a bunch of batteries dropped in the ocean by a cargo ship and sees an opportunity to use these batteries to steal the Krabby Patty secret formula. Soon after this he shows up at the Krusty Krab in his giant robot and takes the safe with the formula. It is up to you to stop him and fight your way through his robot army and find three keys to retrieve the formula. The game offers several upgradeable weapons. The playable characters are: SpongeBob, Patrick, Squidward, Sandy, and Mr. Krabs. Locations shown in the game are Bikini Bottom, Rock Bottom and Dutchman's Triangle.
The Wii U version allows up to five players to play together, one using the Game Pad and the other players regular controllers. The 3DS versions are single-player games and the console versions offer cooperative gameplay for up to four players. A different version was released for Nintendo DS.