Nightmare Fuel / SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab

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SpongeBob SquarePants Creature From The Krusty Krab has often been cited as the darkest SpongeBob game ever, and one of, if not, the darkest entry in the franchise as a whole. And no wonder why, the game has added much more Nightmare Fuel than any other SpongeBob game.

• First off, just look at SpongeBob during the first level when he's driving. SpongeBob has a face that reminds many of Moar Krabs.
  • The enemies of the same level, despite being relatively easy to defeat, are also somewhat disturbing. They are copies of Mr. Krabs' navy buddy Mutton Chop and that one, huge, intimidating pink patron of the Salty Spitoon with faces that look like a combination of Ax Crazies and Nightmare Face. Oh, and the bigger enemy uses a car door to try and smash SpongeBob with a sudden roar that can catch one off-guard! And they're tougher to beat.
  • The same also applies to Patrick, Plankton, and Gary when you race them. They look downright frightful!
• The giant starfish minions in StarfishMan to the Rescue are terrifying, and tougher to beat than the smaller minions. Their grunts certainly don't help.
• Alaskan Belly Trouble is both this and Nausea Fuel:
  • At the beginning of said level, there's the sequence of SpongeBob constantly falling through an ocean pit from Diesel Dreaming, past sunken ships, pirate treasure, ancient ruins, mysterious unexplained machinery (likely linked in to Diesel Dreaming), and realistic, non-sapient starfish and oysters (all while this background music plays, nonetheless). What does the poor sponge see emerging out of the murk at the end? Why, only an angry ALASKAN BULL WORM, which then proceeds to eat SpongeBob before slithering back down into the abyss. For those who aren't expecting it, it's almost a Jump Scare
  • While the parasite enemies here are nowhere near as scary looking as the ones from Diesel Dreaming, here, they resemble Mr. Krabs and Larry. Now imagine seeing these two characters who are close or consistently friendly to SpongeBob in some capacity suddenly wanting to kill him.
  • In the last section of the level, the worm starts having stomach pains from a chili can it ate, and SpongeBob must remove it before he and Old Man Jenkins are able to take off. Not only is it the toughest part of an already excruciating level, but the music from the freefall sequence plays throughout this part, adding suspense to it. The worm also constantly groans in pain, with a tremble effect that can catch players off-guard.
• The Big Bad of the game, a ''sentient'' giant Krabby Patty accidentally brought to life by Plankton that nearly kills its creator multiple times throughout the course of the story.
• It Came From Bikini Bottom. Following the level where you play as a gigantic Plankton and rampage around Bikini Bottom, you cut to SpongeBob's perspective, where Plankton is going out of control and is destroying everything around him, possibly murdering plenty of poor fish people while you have to keep your plane flying to try and escape from him. This music doesn't help ease things up either, highlighting the fact that you're no longer in control of the apex predator of the seas, and now it's coming for you, the Krabby Patty monster you've rescued (unwittingly), and all of Bikini Bottom. There's also strange shark ships (police cruisers according to unlockable concept art) flying around in the level that look conspicuous and may startle the player.
• Hypnotic Highway definitely qualifies. After the main characters discover the Krabby Patty that has been behind all this madness, the patty turns into a trophy and they suddenly wind up in a race through a neon carnival filled with freakish luminous monstrosities. Winner gets the patty trophy and wakes up from this dream. Losers are trapped in the dream forever.
  • Want something more horrifying? Just before the player reaches the finish line in the final lap, if they were to look at the other racers, they could see them getting blown off by shell bombs on the track just mere feet away from the line. The other racers were doomed from the start. (This doesn't seem to happen if you're playing as Patrick however)
• The entirety of the ending cutscene. All of the dreams SpongeBob, Patrick and Plankton thought they had actually belonged to Gary the Snail. He ate a Krabby Patty himself and ended up dreaming up the entire game. Who would have ever thought the loveable snail's imagination would be so vivid and...disturbing?
  • After the credits roll, we're treated to a cutscene of what is likely before and how the entire game happened. It's the ending of said cutscene that's the most disturbing, SpongeBob, with a Krabby Patty in hand, offers Gary it for a moment but decides against it, saying "It'll give you nightmares". After some teasing, SpongeBob leaves for the bathroom while Gary starts to fall asleep. As Gary falls asleep, he sees SpongeBob making the patty talk while looking in the mirror. The next moment, The Alaskan Bull Worm comes out of nowhere to eat a portion of the house along with SpongeBob! The patty ends up in front of Gary as he passes out in shock. The End.
  • The worst part? SpongeBob managed to escape the insides of the Alaskan Bull Worm, yes...in Gary's dream. If that after-credits cutscene was indeed before the actual events of the game happened, then we don't even know if he could do it in the real world. Not to mention that he wasn't even there when Gary woke up. And the population inside the Worm? It was just in Gary's imagination... But if that wasn't the case in the real world, well...