Scribblenauts Showdown

Scribblenauts Showdown
Official cover art featuring Maxwell (left) and his sister, Lily (right)
Developer(s)Shiver Entertainment
Publisher(s)Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
SeriesScribblenauts
Platform(s)Nintendo Switch
PlayStation 4
Xbox One
Release
  • NA: March 6, 2018
  • EU/AU: March 9, 2018
Genre(s)Party
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Scribblenauts Showdown is a party game developed by Shiver Entertainment and published by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One in March 2018. The game is the sixth installment in the Scribblenauts franchise, created by 5th Cell. Showdown sees players playing minigames against other players or CPUs.

Showdown received mixed reviews from critics,[1][2] with criticism for the game's "lack of imagination"[3] and praise the game's sandbox mode for being more alike to prior Scribblenauts games.[4]

  1. ^ "Scribblenauts Showdown for PlayStation 4 Reviews". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved December 8, 2020.
  2. ^ "Scribblenauts Showdown for Xbox One Reviews". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved December 8, 2020.
  3. ^ Biggs, Tim (March 21, 2018). "Scribblenauts Showdown review: a lack of imagination". The Sydney Morning Herald. Nine Entertainment Co. Retrieved December 8, 2020.
  4. ^ Ottolenghi, Ugo (March 12, 2018). "Scribblenauts Showdown - recensione". Eurogamer Italy. Gamer Network. Retrieved December 8, 2020.