South Park™: The Fractured But Whole™

South Park™: The Fractured But Whole™

Fair · RPG · 2017

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$29.99Fair

Typical seasonal cut

$5.9980% offWorth it

Cost per hour▼
$1.65/hr
Reviews▼
85% of 34,114
Genre rank
Top 11% RPG

Holding it back: DRM, Cost per hour

Why
It needs 43% off ($16.98) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.99 or less.

Time and effort

Main story
18.2h
To 100%
28.2h 1.5x the story
Finish
33% reach the ending
Achievements
35

Price and sales

Sales
80 on record
Typical cut
75% off
Steam low
$2.99 September 2025
Sale every
39d last September 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $2.99 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
352 now
Recent reviews
91% 30 days
Cheaper than
5% of its genre
Better reviewed
87% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

93% start to 33% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

It has been discounted 80 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Its score sits in the top 11 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, South Park™: The Stick of Truth™ ($29.99, scores 71) beats it on value, while it beats Stick RPG 2: Director's Cut ($19.99, scores 51).

More about South Park™: The Fractured But Whole™

Steam's global achievement data puts 33 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 18. 18 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2025 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 40 percent of the 2,247 reviews written there were positive, against 85 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.

Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 31 days ago.

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Engagement33% finish
How far players get (achievements). It can only add points
MonetizationNone
No in-game purchases. Paid DLC exists and is not docked
Holding it back
Cost per hour$1.65/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
DRMUbisoft account needed
Denuvo copy protection, a small friction discount
For context
Refunds18 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

What players say

It s such an amazing game imo. Same level w the last one but way funnier. Lots of fan service tho but the combat is gameplay is better and lots of fun.
GazzoosuRecommendedafter 20h4 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
just started and already it's gas, it looks and feels much better than the first and there's already noticeable upgrades like a mini-map, auto-run, the use of skills flows a lot better. The first game was really good and I think this one will be even better, the combat is more adaptable and you can play more how you want, and it looks like there's a crazy amount of variety in sidekicks and classes.
kjhill5903Recommendedafter 10h2 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Ubislop forces you to login with their launcher to play the game, and the game itself has some pretty annoying crashes. Gameplay is different than the 1st but not bad, just jarring at first. Overall not worth the time but I can't refund so I'll get my money's worth I guess. A bit of polishing and removing the ubislop launcher would make it solid. Also the forced cutscenes are funny the first time, but annoying the...
OuroborosNot recommendedafter 23h19 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

From the creators of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, comes South Park: The Fractured But Whole, a sequel to 2014's award-winning South Park: The Stick of Truth.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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South Park™: The Fractured But Whole™ scores 60/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/488790/south-park-the-fractured-but-whole
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperUbisoft San Francisco
PublisherUbisoft
GenreRPG
Released2017
Players3.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements35