South Park™: The Fractured But Whole™

Absolute peak, its better than the stick of truth in almost every way. Combat is much better and a lot less repetitive, the animations and visuals are astonishingly better, the mechanics are simpler to understand, its less buggy, the crafting, artifact system, and the inventory in general is great, and I personally enjoyed the story a tad bit more overall. Though the ending felt a bit rushed and could've been better, and the stick of truth had more shock value and felt a bit more south park-y. But besides all that, everything else in this game is amazing. and I highly recommend it to any big south park fan out there, just like the stick of truth.

Played through the story until I got to the genetic engineering lab. Game soft-locks on first fight and no matter what I do this happens. Game seems to also love crashing randomly and I've had to replay sections of the game many times.

This game is basically a continuation of The Stick of Truth with the story line. The battles are a bit different in this game with more complexity in selecting your "super power" and 4 battle moves but it's not hard to get used to. It is weird that they removed the running feature but not a deal breaker. If you enjoyed The Stick of Truth you'll enjoy this game.

I have never written a review for a game. So, thats my first.
Never, ever in my life I felt so much pain, anger, resentment and hate just for trying to play a video game. I was a big fan of the first game, so I thought, try the second one.
WHY I NEED A ********* UBISOFT ACCOUNT???
Why do they have to make it so difficult? Cant accept my age, my username, my strong(!) password. IMHO nobody has the right to extract my personal information as a customer. They go way to far to analyze every logindata to make sure its absolutly free of southpark related words or any other non childfriendly stuff - in a SOUTHPARK GAME! IT'S NOT MADE FOR CHILDREN!
Trey and Matt made even fun about corporate greed in their own show. Now they have aligned more and more with greedy business practices like streaming services and selling mediocre games. I wont go on this tangent, just look for yourself how many new episodes we've got in 2024.
I played 3 hours in the game with a previously made ubisoft-account, so I cant even get my money back. I just care so little about that account, that I cant tell wich email or name I used. Paradox also wants you to make an account, but at least its somehow optional.
I loved the funny, but strategic combat with Quick-Time-Elements in the first game and spent a lot of time completing every encounter. But I couldnt get used to the whole fart mechanic thing for doing damage in this part. I know, it also played a role in the first game, but now it seems to be more important. I would like to see for myself if I could have gotten any further, but I just hate this privacy-invading corporate-greed Ubisoft Account bull**** linking way to much. Wich, btw, prevents the game from ever beeing free abandonware. Well, I vented enough and deleted this game from my steam library, so I dont have to remember this tragedy ever again.

definitely has replay value this is my 10th completing this game is doesn't get old, adding on the dark humour never gets old either.

This is such a fun game. Spot on with the shows humor.

10/10 if you are a South Park fan.

Ubisoft Connect it's pretty annoying, but the game itself it's super nice! :) I loved the super hero story line

A tacid recommendation;

Combat feels a bit too stale and samey; functional, with occasional fight that actually tries something new. New power-ups don't feel as significant as they should be.

Plot is basic South Park nonsense (basic social commentary or lack thereof, and such). Pacing-wise feels a bit dragged in the middle, picks up the pace in the last third. Stick of Truth had better pacing imo.

Sorta like metroidvania, unlocking abilities to progress through map, or discover shortcuts. Streamlined picking-up items, unlike SoT, no inventory limit (if there is didn't encounter one) so you are pretty much hoover for items (had 999+ crafting components in the inventory), there is crafting had to use few times.

Stable game, encountered only two bugs:
1. In one fight I could freely move, even outside grid, after attacking it got resolved.
2. Gamebreaking? bug. At one fight game simply got stuck on enemy's turn. Restarting from last checkpoint and waiting didn't help, even restart didn't work. Only when pressed windows key for some reason combat continued.

A lot of faffing around, there are things to do but ultimately felt a bit hollow, there were side missions that were more fun than not, though a lot of collecting stuff.

Overall good time kill, you can easily complete game in like 17h.

its a good game i love ripping a massive one and then a clone of me summons. 10/10

This uplay launcher trash is cancer. Just let me open the game or don't make a game... Ideally the game is adjusted to just open through steam (the platform it was purchased on, so weird) but someone needs to spy on my computer and have a memory hungry launcher do literally nothing it needs to do because dev's said "lets do this awful idea" and didn't listen to anyone who went to 1st grade.

I wanna come back to this game for fun but will not mess with that trash

Like Stick of Truth, Fractured But Whole is very faithful to the South Park universe. One of my favorite TV shows to rewatch having 2 great game adaptations is very nice to have as a fan. There is some limitations and some repetitiveness in this game, but not as much as Stick of Truth had. It's hilarious and fun to explore which is something that this game exceeds well on by having loot in areas you have to really think hard on navigating to and selfies with characters you need to work hard on to get. If you're a fan of the show or turn based. I recommend it, I 100% recommend the Casa Bonita dlc too, it was so much fun as well as Henrietta, one of my favorite characters, becomes a playable character too. Hopefully Casa Bonita is as fun as the Dlc was when I take my trip to Denver in the summer.

Pales in comparison to the much superior South Park The Stick of Truth. This game is trash compared to Stick of Truth. The combat is repetitive and boring. The worst part of combat is you don't gain XP to distribute to any stats so battling literally amounts to just that and every battle becomes more and more cumbersome the longer you play because of repetition.

I don't care if there is a Ubisoft launcher. The game functions with it so what all the fuss about that is just shenanigans.

There really wasn't that many funny moments. One scene had me laughing really hard in the strip club, but otherwise the humor just wasn't to South Park standards. Bunch of farts.

TL:DR Play The Stick of Truth. Skip The Factured But Whole.

First and foremost, then the first game was good: simple but fun and addictive.

This one is not.

The fighting system is much clunkier and less ... well ... fun than the first one.

What was tounge in cheek and fun in the first one is cringe and frankly boring here.

The story is also much less engaging. And the sidequests seems like an afterthought and are even less fun.

So IMHO it is NOT hilarious amongst other things because the "satire" is NOT savage. And certainly is neither brilliant, addictive and above all NOT authentic.

THIS ... is something that just used the first game and the name of Southpark to make a copy of the first game. And a bad one at that.

Oh ...

And if that was not bad enough then you need to install Ubisofts annoying, useless and pointless and what I consider spyware to play this.

Ubisofts launcher offers NOTHING to the player. At all.

Clearly not worth it...

For many valid reasons then I wont be buying any new Ubisoft games ever again. And after this I wont be buying any of the old ones either.

Stinky combat system i want paper mario not "yet another game with card based combat"

This game was um,interesting. I really loved the system and the improvements,the snowday game isnt the best BUT(whole) they could make another game like this (2d),multiplayer and have a new story for the multiplayer and singleplayer. I wonder what the next game theme is about, If its like i said im buying it+ dlcs and completing it!

There are some good things added to from The Stick Of Truth, but ultimately this is an inferior game, with a lot of pasted on busywork, and an ending that doesn't even seem like it's over. Really decent at some parts, but ultimately you can tell that the team just couldn't think of a compelling and original reason for the game to exist.

Really enjoyed this one, and i can say i enjoyed this one more than The Stick of Truth, the combat system felt way more strategic and more difficult in some parts, because of the movement system, and one thing that's really good is that nothing in the game is missable, which is good because you don't have to worry about not collecting anything, unlike The Stick of Truth where you could miss some chipokomon or costume, because that specific area would be destroyed / unaccessible.

I only have a small complaint, and it's that the game sometimes freezes, not completely but my character would be stuck in place just blinking and i would have to restart the game to fix it, which is a bit annoying, but not too bad because the game would autosave before then, but sometimes i'd have to repeat battles. Grab the stick of truth and fractured but whole bundle, i really recommend it.

Its so much worse then first one, if you want only interactive South Park episode then maybe buy it.. but if you played first one and hope for more i cant recomend this, in first one you explore the world and you can find new wepons, armor, perks to put in to them and junk to sell, every one of these items is plesure to pick up, they all have they own sprite and they are relateable to place you find them in. SP TFBW has nothing from this, there is so much costumes and every singe one is useless, they are pure cosmetics, you can easyli finish game with starting outfit, making your "build" revolves around getting highest number, when you get in to combat its ok you have little more strategy involved then in first game. Worst part is, its Ubisoft game.. when you have gold edition you get the best costumes, "gear" and resorces from the start, making exploration even more redundant. Btw you cant play pooping minigame on PC its made for contoler and highest tier minigame is imposible on keyboard.

Great Banter. Currently on my second play-through. It's like being part of a 30 hour episode. Only thing I would say is don't buy the DLCs unless they are on sale - whilst they are interesting, they aren't worth the full price.

However, if on sale - a good addition to the game.

Mechanics are a bit different to the previous Stick of Truth game, so if you've just completed the former & gone straight into this, it'll take a good 20-30 min to get used to it.

great game enjoyed every bit of it but not paying another £25 for the dlc's that's dumb this is an 8 year old ( offline ) game! how is it still so expensive.. i recommend playing the game if you haven't already as its next level fun!! but i don't recommend paying for it.. its almost frustrating.. their new game is cheaper and online!!.. like wtf?? they have made $37,379,925.87 of this game!! screw South Park Digital Studios LLC / Ubisoft San Francisco its pure extortion!!

I highly recomend this game for South Park fans.It's filled with references,iconic characters as running gags.I recomend watching the show first so you atleast understand the characters and references

Ubisoft connect/uplay/whatever the hell sucks and when outtages occur, it impacts your ability to play this single player game because for some reason, it always needs to be online

absolutely amazing game, jokes might not be for everybody but if you can handle satire its super funny. great dialogue and game play, lots of collectibles. fully recommend the game.

Game has good story and much of the gameplay is good. However, compared to stick of truth, the combat is slow and bland. Still would recommend tho

this is way more enjoyable than pouring fluoroantimonic acid on your genitals

I love the south park show, and i expected this game to be funny, but i did not expect the game play to be this good.

Just like others have said it's a long playable episode of South Park. It's packed full with references and detail, that's gotta be my favorite part of the game. Funny and very enjoyable to play. The sidequests aren't bad, and the combat is okay but I preferred Stick of Truth's. This game improves on everything in Stick of Truth

I've been a South Park fan for so many years, and this game just nails it. Amazing and fun, it's like watching the series, butt even better!!!

not as fun as stick of truth in my opinion because it isn't as funny and tbh the gameplay can get stale fast. Although the combat is much better, I found myself skipping cutscenes half way through out of boredom. great game though, solid 8/10

I enjoyed this far less than The Stick of Truth, but it is still absolutely worth it.

To be specific, the movement is worse, the writing is worse, side quests all get dumped on you in clusters and aren't written as well, and the world feels hollow. For some reason in this one Cartman gets upset if you fart on him, when in TSoT he would say stuff like "I'll teach you more later, you have much to learn about the true power of farts" or something like that. The combat is better than TSoT in most ways though.

I would recommend this for fans of South Park very much regardless.

it has a really good story
also really good 100%

Probably a good game, but I could not know, because it requires a Ubisoft account, and Ubisoft account creation is bugged atleast for me. Hence I couldn't even play it :(

I do not understand why a Ubisoft account is needed, I could not understand why logging in with Steam account is not sufficient.

Anyway, at the current state I am forced to pirate the game in order to play it which is very sad and makes me sad.

This game is, like surprisingly good mechanically, as long as you can get past the really gratuitous fart jokes.

I liked it but I didn't like it as much as I liked the stick of truth. The only thing I wasn't a fan of was the new combat system where as I thought stick of truth nailed the combat I thought the new combat system felt clunky and was a bit harder to learn, which is maybe a good thing depending how you look at it but for me I thought the combat system could've stayed with the same formula with maybe a bit of fine tuning instead of a whole new combat system. I understand if they kept the combat the same that it would've been just like playing stick of truth again but I don't think that would've been an entirely bad thing. Apart from that the story and characters I thought were really well done again and what they released was still a very good South Park game.

super good and funny, much better than the first game in every aspect
also fμck ubisoft and fμck their launcher

combat system lacks depth, but it's flashy enough to be fun. I had a great fun playing this. Biggest flaw is that you have to use Ubisoft Connect to play it.

First off I just want to say that Ubisoft connect is shit, although playing this game kinda made me forget how terrible Ubisoft is. I have watched playthroughs of this game before playing but after playing this game for the first time I really wish I never watched those playthroughs cause this game is peak. I have already beaten the main story line and 2 of the dlcs and I love all of them. Similar to my review on the Stick Of Truth, great gameplay and good humour. Great game that I wished more friends of mine would play,

Ubisoft launcher makes this experience horrible and just not worth it. Avast, me hearties! Find open waters and plunder this game elsewhere.

South Park: The Fractured But Whole – Superheroes, Fart Attacks, and Absolute Chaos

South Park: The Fractured But Whole is the video game equivalent of taking your childhood memories, dipping them in crude humor, and serving them with a side of chaos. It’s like a wild night out with Cartman and the gang – except you won’t wake up with a headache (well, maybe a little).

Story

The story picks up where The Stick of Truth left off, but now the kids have decided to ditch knights and wizards for superheroes. You play as the New Kid – a hero with a tragic backstory (according to Cartman) and an incredible power: your digestive system. Yes, you’ll literally fart your way to justice. Your goal? Join "Coon and Friends" and save the town from Professor Chaos and other absurd threats.

Strengths

✔️ Classic South Park Humor
This game is as irreverent, over-the-top, and brilliant as you’d expect from South Park. Every joke hits hard – or goes hilariously too far.

✔️ Superhero Satire
From MCU parodies to superpowers so absurd they almost make sense – the game mocks everything in sight.

✔️ Deep Combat System
The turn-based combat is surprisingly strategic. Freeze enemies, knock them back, or… incapacitate them with your farts. Genius.

✔️ Tons of Customization
Create your own hero, choose from a variety of powers and outfits, and become either the most stylish or the most ridiculous superhero in South Park.

✔️ Attention to Detail
The town of South Park is packed with references, Easter eggs, and absurd situations just waiting to be discovered.

Weaknesses

❌ Repetitive Combat
As strategic as the combat is, after the hundredth fart, it might start to feel a bit samey.

❌ Humor Not for Everyone
If South Park’s style doesn’t appeal to you, playing this will feel like being a vegan at a barbecue.

❌ Minor Technical Issues
Small bugs and loading times can occasionally be annoying – but hey, it’s South Park, and chaos is part of the deal.

Achievements

The achievements in this game are as wild as the characters themselves. From "Befriend All Characters" to absurd challenges, there’s plenty to keep you busy. Important: The only missable trophy is “The Token Experience,” which requires creating a black character and completing the game on the “Mastermind” difficulty. The good news? DLCs are not needed to unlock all trophies.

Target Audience

✔️ Recommended for
• Fans of South Park and its irreverent humor
• Players who love superheroes but don’t take Marvel and DC too seriously
• Anyone who enjoys farting… virtually, of course

❌ Not Recommended for
• People with sensitive humor or weak nerves
• Players who dislike turn-based combat
• Folks who don’t appreciate a good laugh

Final Verdict

South Park: The Fractured But Whole feels like an extended episode of the series you can play. It’s absurd, vulgar, but also incredibly entertaining. If you’re not afraid of over-the-top humor, a surprisingly good story, and an unhealthy amount of fart jokes, this game is an absolute blast. For fans of the series, it’s a must-play – for everyone else, it’s a courage test! 💨

Note: My playtime is as skewed as Cartman’s diet plans. For a more realistic estimate, check HowLongToBeat.

This game is incredibly fun. I love being able to stroll around the town of South Park and seeing all of the hijinks around town. This game feels bigger in almost every way from the previous one and is a must play for all South Park fans. My only complaint is that the last day in the story was full of bugs that I hadn't found anywhere else in the game yet seems to be a common issue

Man Like ♛MOZ♛ Short review!

A great 2nd game to the south park series. Fun turn base combat, great skill tree to choose from and overall a decent story.

The Fractured But Whole delivers the classic South Park humor fans love, though it doesn’t quite reach the gut-busting heights of its predecessor. The satire and ridiculousness are still here, but the laughs feel slightly more subdued this time around. The gameplay is solid enough, but it’s hard to ignore Ubisoft lurking in the background.

If you find it on a steep discount, it’s worth a play for the laughs alone. Otherwise, maybe think twice about supporting a publisher that seems more interested in DEI than their players. Cartman would approve of your cynicism.

Terrible compared to Stick of Truth.
Sadly was a DNF and i didn't get past the 2hr mark.

Gameplay was completely ruined and simplified down to a point and click with nearly no freedom or choices, unlike SoT which had amazing gameplay and story, this one was just sad. high key regretting the buy.

Great game that I enjoyed better than Stick of Truth at some parts. Although, Ubisoft pulled and Ubisoft and tried to download shit onto my computer for some reason, and after it was complete my save file was gone. So that’s nice. Overall another great game ruined by Ubisoft’s corporate greed.

It's a south park game, expect wild and inappropriate humor and funny story with good game play. Get ready to be offended.

You see, the game is fine, until you hit Spontaneous Bootay. Then if you didn't pick Speedster it becomes a dick-twisting monstrosity that knocks you into instadeath 4 times.

Like South Park: The Stick of truth but a little better combat

Even if you are not a fan of South Park this game will make you laugh and provide you with a good time. Combat is fun not to complex. #fuckFreedomPals :P

Fun game but extremely unstable. Freezes, stops responding to keyboard, lot's of weird glitches.

Got this game a while back and had time to finally play it. Found out it requires Ubisoft online account and immediately asked for a refund. Too late for that. Oh well. I refused to play it on steam. And got a cracked version. Not going to spend time on bull. F### Ubisoft.

The game itself is nice. Not as good as Stick of Truth, but close. Sail the high seas to play it. Don't bother here.