South Park: The Stick of Truth
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…
South Park: The Stick of Truth is an adventure developed by Obsidian Entertainment, released 3 March 2014 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PlayStation 3. The main story takes about 12.5 hrs to finish.
What South Park: The Stick of Truth is
South Park: The Stick of Truth is an adventure game developed by Obsidian Entertainment and released in 2014. It was published by Ubisoft Entertainment. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Onyx Engine. It carries an ESRB M age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action, comedy, fantasy and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 50 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the South Park series
South Park: The Stick of Truth is the eighth of 21 entries we hold in the South Park series. It arrived 2 years after South Park: Tenorman's Revenge. The next entry was Pinball FX2: South Park in 2014. Its critic score of 80 is 16 points above the series average of 64. The highest-rated entry is South Park: The Fractured But Whole at 85.
How it was received
South Park: The Stick of Truth holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 11 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 82, across 1,240 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 12.5 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 21.3 hrs, roughly 1.7 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Pentium Dual-Core E2180 @ 2.0 GHz or AMD Athlon64 X2 3800+ @ 2.0 GHz, 2 GB GB RAM and nVidia GeForce 8800GT or AMD Radeon HD2600XT (512MB VRAM with Shader Model 4.0 or higher). At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 6GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
Storefront pricing varies enormously by country: India is the cheapest region we track at ₹1,499.00 (about $15.77), while Saudi Arabia pays SAR 139.00 — 2.4 times more.
What it launched against
South Park: The Stick of Truth launched on 3 March 2014, within three weeks of Dark Souls II, Hearthstone, The Last of Us: Left Behind and Titanfall. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Dark Souls II, Hearthstone, The Last of Us: Left Behind, Titanfall.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for South Park: The Stick of Truth yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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