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South Park: The Stick of Truth

2014 · PlayStation 3 · PlayStation 4 · PC (Microsoft Windows) · Xbox 360 · Xbox One · Nintendo Switch · Role-playing (RPG) · Strategy · Adventure

82IGDB player score
1,238 ratings

Previously Take

An 82 average from 1,238 ratings: not perfect, but the kind of game people keep recommending anyway. A proper RPG, from the studio behind Fallout: New Vegas: big systems, bigger choices, and fantasy, comedy all the way down. A single-player game with no interest in being anything else. Respect.

About this game

South Park: The Stick of Truth is a role-playing game set in the town of South Park, developed in collaboration with series creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. Players control a new kid who joins a city-wide live-action role-playing game among the local children, which escalates into a conflict with larger stakes. Combat uses a turn-based system with timed button inputs, and the game features exploration, side quests, and the humor of the animated series.

A child known only as the New Kid has just moved to the small mountain town of South Park, Colorado. Venturing outside for the first time, the New Kid is immediately drawn into an elaborate live-action fantasy war between the neighborhood children, who have split into rival factions of humans and elves battling for control of a relic they call the Stick of Truth. Led by the scheming wizard king Cartman on one side and the elven king Kyle on the other, the conflict escalates well beyond a simple children's game as genuine dangers emerge and threaten the entire town.