South Park™: The Fractured But Whole™
Worth it · RPG · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $8.99.
- Length
- 18.2h
- Value
- $0.49/hr
- Reviews
- 85% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
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The value story
September 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $2.99. It has been discounted 80 times in the 10 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today's $8.99 at 70 percent off still sits 201 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
At full price it scores 60. The current cut is what makes it a 71.
On value it sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. Among the games that feel like it, South Park™: The Stick of Truth™ ($7.49, scores 95) beats it on value, while it beats Stick RPG 2: Director's Cut ($19.99, scores 43).
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 8. 19 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 40 percent of the 2,227 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.
The drop-off
93% start to 33% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
250 players at peak in the last day.
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What players say
9/10 - South Park: The Fractured But Whole is absolutely hilarious. The writing, ridiculous situations, and nonstop offensive humor feel exactly like playing through a massive South Park episode. The combat is fun, the story stays entertaining, and I was laughing constantly. Easily one of the funniest games I've played.
★★★★⯪ ✦ 𝟒.𝟓/𝟓 ✦ Bigger battles, fewer lines crossed. ༺━━━✦━━━༻ ✦ The combat got better ✦ ◆ The Fractured But Whole improves on The Stick of Truth in a lot of ways, and the combat is probably the biggest one. Being able to move around the battlefield makes fights much more interesting and gives you more options than just standing in place and trading attacks. A few encounters were genuinely challenging too, which I...
I wouldn't buy it. The game's good but it's unplayable. It constantly stutters no matter how much you try to tweak it. Get it on console, it's actually playable there.
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 Fractured But Whole™ scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). 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-wholeThe 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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