Scribblenauts Showdown

Scribblenauts Showdown's main mode, Showdown, has players competing against opponents in different minigames. Prior to starting a minigame, players must select a noun that they will use to try to win the game. Before selecting a word, the game spins a wheel, which will decide what letter the player's words will start with. In Showdown mode, players play on different boards, akin to Nintendo's Mario Party series. The game also has a versus mode, which is similar to Showdown, except it's a 1v1 and doesn't take place on a board.

The game's sandbox mode is more like prior Scribblenauts installments and sees the player trying to solve NPC's issues by creating objects using a magical notebook. After solving an issue, players are rewarded with "Starites", which can be used to buy apparel in the customization menu. The sandbox mode has 8 different worlds and supports up to 2 players.

Prior to its official reveal, Showdown was leaked by the Game Software Rating Regulations and Entertainment Software Rating Board, after the two boards publicly released the game's ratings. Scribblenauts Showdown was officially confirmed by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment in January 2018. Development for Showdown was headed by Shiver Entertainment, making it the first in the series not to be developed by the original creators, 5th Cell. Shiver Entertainment had also developed Scribblenauts Mega Pack (a video game compilation) as well as the Nintendo Switch versions of Mortal Kombat 11, Mortal Kombat 1 and Hogwarts Legacy.

Showdown was released on March 6, 2018, in North America for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. The game was later released in Europe and Australia on March 9.

Scribblenauts Showdown received "generally unfavorable reviews" from critics for the Nintendo Switch, and "mixed or average critic reviews" for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, according to review aggregator Metacritic. Critics criticized the game's "lack of imagination", with Edge thinking that Shiver Entertainment couldn't "conjure up a decent party game", despite the game's "great source material".

Marco Esposto of IGN Italy praised Showdown, calling it a "classic" party game. Esposto praised the game's avatar creation process for being "simple" and the game's "attractive" graphics, but criticized the low amount of minigames, citing that they quickly felt "repetitive". Ultimately, Esposto gave Showdown a score of 7.3/10.