Freddi Fish 2: The Case of the Haunted Schoolhouse

Freddi Fish 2: The Case of the Haunted Schoolhouse is a 1996 video game, the second title in the Freddi Fish series, created and released by Humongous Entertainment. It got a sequel, Freddi Fish 3: The Case of the Stolen Conch Shell, in 1998. The game came out on iOS in 2014 as Freddi Fish Haunted Schoolhouse Mystery, and on Android the same year with the shorter title Freddi Fish: Haunted Schoolhouse. It also launched for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 in May 2024.

In the story, Freddi Fish meets Luther on her way to school; he’s brought his Codfish Commando action figure for show and tell. When they get to class, their teacher Mrs. Croaker says a ghost has been stealing toys from the other students. The ghost then appears, snatches Luther’s figure, and flees. Freddi and Luther chase it into the school basement, where Luther gets his toy back and the ghost threatens revenge. Convinced the ghost is a fake, Freddi designs a Rube Goldberg–style trap to catch it, and they set out to find five extra parts for it. As they search, Boss and Spongehead, the sharks from the first game, try to scare them off with warnings. When the pair is one part short, the sharks meet the Squidfather, who never had toys as a kid and orders them to steal the guppies’ toys. After collecting all five items, Freddi and Luther set the trap using Luther’s figure as bait. It works, revealing the ghost is Boss and Spongehead in disguise. Luther lets the Squidfather keep the action figure, and he and Freddi return the other toys to the class, who celebrate their heroism.

The gameplay uses the same mechanics as the first Freddi Fish game but includes new puzzles, items to collect and use, character encounters, locations, minigames, and clickable spots. The parts for the ghost trap are randomized each time you start a new game.

The game was shown at E3 1996. Since adult women often voice children of both genders in games, designer Tami Borowick—who had decided to make Freddi female during the first game’s development—worried players might not realize she was a girl, so she added a line in this game to clarify Freddi’s gender.

Freddi Fish 2 was generally well received. Allgame gave it three stars, Electric Playground scored it 9.5 out of 10, PC Magazine awarded five stars, and Unikgamer rated it 7.5 out of 10.