South Park™: The Stick of Truth™
BANGER · RPG · 2014
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $7.49.
- Length
- 11.4h
- Value
- $0.66/hr
- Reviews
- 98% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 6 GB of storage. Windows only.
From the perilous battlefields of the fourth-grade playground, a young hero will rise, destined to be South Park’s savior. From the creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, comes an epic quest to become… cool. Introducing South Park™: The Stick of Truth™.For a thousand years, the battle has been waged.
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.99. That was February 2020. 97 discounts in the 13 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today's $7.49 at 75 percent off still sits 151 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
Take the discount away and it is a 71. With it, 95.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 96 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games closest to it, South Park™: The Fractured But Whole™ ($8.99, scores 71) and Stick RPG 2: Director's Cut ($19.99, scores 43) both come in lower.
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $14.58. It costs $7.49.
Steam's global achievement data says about 8 percent of players ever finish it. On an 11.4-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 22 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2023 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,416 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,685 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 84 percent of the 2,141 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic); the score docks it lightly for that.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 11.4 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
71% start to 8% finishMost players never reach the end. On an 11.4-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
274 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
This is a great game set in the South Park universe. I loved the turn-based combat with its unique attacks and enemies. Never would I have dreamed of circumcising Mongolian riders as a Jewish child in a video game. The Story is as unhinged as you would expect, but still very enjoyable. It feels a bit like the pretend games i played as kid, just with more swearing, gore and ridiculousness. Good times!
**9/10** Absolutely hilarious from beginning to end. The game perfectly captures South Park's humor and genuinely had me laughing at how ridiculous some of the quests and situations get. The combat is simple but fun, exploring the town is great, and there are jokes and references everywhere. My only real complaint is that I wish it was longer. One of the funniest games I've played and easily one of the best TV show...
Twelve years later - and still a direct hit Even in 2026, a full twelve years after its release, South Park: The Stick of Truth has lost none of its brilliance. The game feels like a playable episode of the show - and that's exactly what makes it one of the best licensed games ever made, even today. There is one small damper, though, and remarkably it's not the game's fault at all: some things that passed as morally...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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South Park™: The Stick of Truth™ scores 95/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/213670/south-park-the-stick-of-truthThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 12, price as of Sep 24.
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