South Park™: The Fractured But Whole™

Whatever Ubisoft Connect is, it crashes before the game itself even gets a chance to load.

Thanks Ubisoft

i've beat this game on a cracked version and safe to say, the best turn based game i've played played in my life. but oh my god, ubisoft launcher is so fucking annoying

super good game, have played this game a very long time and never got tried of it, i'm super happy to have this game, everyone should have this game, really funny and ridiculous, in a good way. :)

Game is too buggy, takes too much effort to load, phone interface's control is annoying to use with mouse, and the game takes up 28GB. The game is good ignoring all this so I'd recommend getting this game for console (this doesn't fix the storage issue though).

Unfortunately, game doesn't merit recommendation from me.

General gameloop is trash, watered down and uninspiring from previous installment. It's simply not interesting.
Now you have costumes without stats. Some bum-lame artifacts with same stats just slightly different %. Battles feel like puzzles. All samey nonce. Rinse and repeat until game is over.

That said, it's South Park. Design,Humor,Story,Setting. All good. No complain, but noticeable downgrade from the Stick of Truth in terms of gameplay and general gameloop.

I'll finish this game, and toss it to oblivion.

If you hate South Park or turn based RPGs, this isn't going to do anything to dissuade you from those opinions. If you can at the very least tolerate the former, however, this game is an absolute blast to play for its in-depth RPG mechanics and crazy humor.

Now this game is not as "South Parky" as Stick of Truth it is still an amazing game that will last you months and I really enjoy it as a fan of the series and this is a definite buy. But only when its on sale because jesus is this game a little pricey at times.

Dont buy.

ties your game to uplay, and if you lose acess to your uplay email for whatever reason, ubisoft support REFUSES to work with you.
I send them all my details, screenshots, proof of purchases, ids , gave them names and old password.
They outright refuse to help. They are not a support team they are flatout inapt to work with customers.

Until i met ubisoft support i had no standards with support because i fortunately never had issues, as im filling to work together to solve my problem. This companies support is a joke tho.
they arent even reading the mails correctly, they dont help you work together, they refuse to eleborate what they need for recovery.

Story is funny and long, gameplay gets repetative after while. Had fun 7/10
If your having problems with game freezing try to play at windowed and click the game banner if that happens, worked for me in lab fights and endgame.

8 years after release and they still did not patch a glitch where your game freezes on animation during a fight. I really do hope ubisoft goes down.

Really enjoyed the game. It had a lot of fun easter eggs if you watch the show that make it quite detail oriented. One gripe is I think during one of the parts, it relies to heavy on the same co-hero mechanics to get through an area. It felt unnecessary and kind of annoying. Also could have had more fast travel spots in the middle of the map. Other than that, had a good time! I laughed a lot during the story and it's a must have if you're a south park fan. Especially since it regularly goes on sale. It's also really easy to 100% if you look at the guide before hand on how to do it.

except for the fact that the towelie dlc is the worst dlc ever, you can just switch it off in the settings and it's a fantastic game

TLDR do NOT BUY unless DEEP SALE back up save every major event, so softluck doesn't f*ck you or you get Diabetes .

More than 5 year old game still have denuvo.

Greedy, added BS QOL end of life cycle just to scoop some $$$ but lacks actual CHANGE not even 4x speed.

DLC's sucks except for casabonita

Now im soft lock, its ubishit launcher's fault if you turn that off then equip any ubishit reward you won be able to swap/do anything for my artifacts .

stick of truth better.

This game is just fun to play, especially if you already like or are a fan of South Park. It is hilarious and it was fun connecting parts of it to the episodes I've seen. I will warn it is not kid friendly at all, definitely more rated R but most kids don't know what South Park is anyway so you should be good. Again this game is just hilarious and all around fun to play.

Might not be an issue for everyone, but this game is basically unplayable on 21:9 OLED displays. Instead of proper black bars, it inexplicably displays bright gray sidebars — which significantly increases the risk of burn-in during long play sessions.

Game keeps crashing and they won’t fix it when I am in battle it freezes I am absolutely annoyed by this and have asked to get this fixed but nothing has happened I hope you guys can fix this other than that it’s a good game but seriously it’s getting annoying FIX THE BUG PLEASE

I got a softlock with no way to continue the story after 17 hours.
The critical bug was not fixed until the end of support for the game.
A big disappointment

i like the game myself i would say its worth it but remember its still south park so its not for everyone and its really funny

this game is really good and funny but remember, its south park so its unhinged especially when you forget that your'e playing a south park game. For example, the fight with Jared but im sure if you buy a south park game you know what you're signing up for.

!! Im not done with it but i genuinely really like it. 10/10 (so far) !!

Somehow incredibly bland and boring, with sub-par gameplay. Just get Stick of Truth if you want a fun South Park game.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☑ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☑ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☑ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

---{ ? / 10 }---
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fun game, but first part was better.
Bad parts:
- if you have 21:9 monitor you will get bars on right and left side of screen. It is pretty normal, but for some fucked up reason, the bars are GREY not BLACK - this issue is in this game from day one and still is not fixed (there are patchers on internet, but c'mon, GREY, who thought that it is good idea?!)
- toilet game is unplayable on keyboard (right hand on wsad, left on arrows - and I need to press Y - who tested this?!)
- combat is more tactical, but I would argue if it is more fun than in Stick of Truth
- annoying Ubisoft launcher

Very fun turn based game, anyone whos a fan of southpark should play this at least once.

I owned this game day one when it came out but always played it on Xbox One so don't let the hours fool you, that's just one playthrough since I got the game on sale (and the DLC again) since I never touch that console.

Anyways, yeah, this game is IT. It's 1 of the best RPG turn based games of all time. It being a South Park game is the icing on the cake! I've been a gamer in 4 decades now and there's few games that have ever been this enjoyable. The story obviously is entertaining, and it feels like a South Park movie essentially. The classes give you so many options of things to mix/match as well.

If someone has seriously never played this, dude, this game is like, Skyrim/EldenRing/GTA/Witcher3/DeusEx level good, or whatever games you consider the best ever, whether it be Sonic Mario Zelda Pokemon CoD games, ITS ON THAT LEVEL AND ABOVE. I don't ever see it going outside of my 10 greatest games of all time list.
The real question is why didn't they take after the first 2 with the Snow Day disaster. They could have just added new stories as expansion packs to this existing game, and saved money using this engine, and also made more money from selling way more copies than Snow Day. Then we'd have actually got a 3rd game ina trilogy instead of what we got. Maybe someday, if I were Matt and Trey that's what I would do for my next game. This was perfection!

I bought this game after I beat stick of truth; played it, stopped playing (at that time I had logged about an hour and a half), then picked it up about three months later-- I beat this game in about 3 or 4 days on normal difficulty. If I'm going to be honest, even though this game is beautifully crafted and full of life, the interfaces aren't great. I really hate having to go through a series of buttons to open my phone and then open the app. I found myself spending extra time doing stuff like equipping allies and powers because everything takes so long, even after not having played stick of truth for a while. Another thing I don't love about this game is the combat grid; yes I like it in theory and it's an interesting way to play a game, but it sometimes gets clunky and I really miss the stick of truth combat system where not only did your turn consist of an offensive action, but you could heal, too. And the grid certainly doesn't help this one, so no matter how necessary it is, I still don't love it. Obviously I'm biased having come from stick of truth but this game is certainly not a bad game even with it's flaws. Its funny, weird, and different, so credit is definitely due there. The plot itself ranges from completely unserious to satarizing real social issues which i really like, and overall, I did have a fun, although occasionally frustrating time with this game. At some point I do plan on buying the DLCs just for the fun of it, but until then I believe this game is good, not a complete masterpiece but it definitely does have many solid points.

This game is funny and fun to play south park did a great job on this one.

I could not let go off the first game, the Stick of Truth. i just had to push trough that game whenever I could spare some time, even on my longer morning commute to work.

I am at this point and for various reasons not interested in finishing The Fracture But Whole.

1. UPlay requirement. This is a singleplayer game. F-Off with this garbage. You need to be online if you want to play it. This obviously eliminates this game from being played underway.

2. Its UbiSoft. So the damn game now has loads of tedious fetch quests. The first one had one and you didn't need to complete it. I am pretty sure that one was making fun of fetch quests like these. Of course UbiSoft had to make fill the new game with them to the top. Oh yeah, and I am pretty sure the crafting system and the barrage of additional systems overall, half of which I never really use, is a result of that as well.

[Side Rant incoming: Its a UbiSoft trope at this point to ram their games full of this shit. So they have a problem that they can sell the solution for. Its so ingrained in the UbiSoft company that even if they do not want to make shops for the game, they have these currency systems in it anyway. Just check out Rayman Legends. That thing makes you collect literally tens of thousands of its currency of Lums for everything and then adds passive earning opportunities. Its ridiculous. There is no reason for the amounts to be so insanely high. In the End UbSoft didn't end a shop, Probably because They didn't want to deal with the massive backlash that a currency shop in a kids game would have caused them.]

3. The pacing is bad. The story feels padded and needlessly convoluted. In the first game I always knew where I was and cared about what was going on. In this story everything has unnecessary side quests and deviations from the actual story.
The result of that is that I simply lost interest in it. I probably could have powered through if I could have used my otherwise empty morning commute time to push trough the chaff. But because of UPlay and its always online requirement, that is not possible.

4. This is less important, but on the Steam Deck the game has weird grey bars on the top and bottom of the game despite the right resolution being set. While ugly, I would have still pushed trough that as well if it weren't for the other issues.

Since I last played this game, which was a bit more the a month ago, I always saw this game in the library. Staring at me. I always kept thinking "I really should get back to it and finish it."
Instead I finished three other games in that time and still can't really be bothered to pick this back up.

I am pretty sure the only reason I hadn't uninstalled this game yet, is because of the memory of the first game.
But at this point I will just admit that I have no drive to finish this one.

As the second South Park rpg, The Fractured But Whole switches up some of the mechanics while following the general formula introduced in the first game. It's fun and worth playing for any South Park fan, but it's unlikely to become anyone's favorite rpg.

The graphics, whether it's during gameplay or one of the many cutscenes, are exactly what you would expect from watching the show. The same goes for the voice acting, always on point and matching whatever is going on. A good presentation that makes the game feel like an extended South Park episode for close to 20 hours, even though the ambiance when you're just exploring can feel a little too quiet.
This may have to do with the fact that they had less time to work on the game, as they hint at with a couple of jokes.

There are similarities with the previous game in the rpg elements, but South Park : The Fractured But Whole can feel overwhelming at first, with the many new systems it throws at you. You still walk around, unlocking more of the town as you obtain new abilities and pick fights with enemies you see on the map, but the fights themselves have been completely overhauled.
They now happen on a grid, where positioning matters a lot because most abilities move enemies around, allowing you to knock them into each other or into obstacles to deal more damage. It's fun and the novelty is welcome, but it remains too easy even on harder difficuties. Not necessarily a problem, because this means you can use your favorite characters out of the 10 available even if they're not the best and still win !
The best part about the fights is probably the enemies you face and the silliness of all the attacks the characters use. Some are offensive, others disgusting... but most are really inventive and will warrant a smile the first time you see them.

And that's really all South Park is about : the humor. Even more than usual, since it takes inspiration from the news and today's world, it will be hit-or-miss.
You'll find some of it funny, and roll your eyes at the rest. Fart jokes have never been very subtle but I have a feeling that the era with Pc Principal and Cartman as The Racoon isn't really the best when it comes to humor. Or maybe it's the era that we live that isn't actually the best... Food for thought.

No, where the game really shines is when it plays on the actual contrast between children roleplaying as superheroes and reality. Fights in the street being interrupted for a few seconds whenever a car drives by, piles of legos as uncrossable lava, Kyle getting genuinely sick of Cartman's sh... shenanigans... There are many situations like these and they're really funny, almost single-handedly making the game worth a playthrough.
I'll give South Park : The Fractured But Whole a 7. It's not as good as the first one, but if you've ever enjoyed South Park, you'll have a good time.

worse than the first game. more bugs. worse story. Had the game get stuck on a loading screen and lost 3 hours worth of progress.

It's a lot of fun, and as someone who's never played a turn-based RPG before (besides stick of truth) it was a very good introduction to those types of games. I enjoyed it a lot, and it's very pleasant to see all the little easter eggs and references to real episodes. I love the story, and I love how child-like the game feels. very fun game I recommend. It is also extremely easy. I played on mastermind and only died about 4-5 times throughout the whole game. love it!
Also the DLCs, oh my goodness the DLCs!!! So amazing, I own every DLC for this game, and the story modes are soooo good! Beautiful additions to the game. both story-based DLCs are so much fun, and as a huge Mike Makowski fan I thoroughly enjoyed the Casa Bonita DLC. I wish you could play them again! I've played the game about 3 times and every time I also replay the DLCs...

Dope game recommended especially when you watched the series, even if you didnt its still a brilliant game

I love this game, i love the story. i love the jokes. It is amazing. Deserves a sequel to be a real trilogy.

Ubisoft game launcher can possibly ruin the game purchase. I am allowed to play the game, eventually, but thei connection is crap so... you might be able to play the game at your leisure, but maybe not. Maybe you can play offline, or maybe just find the game elsewhere.

Absolutely smashed this game within two weeks, finished the first and I was not disappointed by this one. Finished the game with 100% achievements, if you want to get all - I would suggest doing the hard mode achievement your first round a go if you only really plan to play one save file.

look if you like southpark and rpgs you owe it to yourself to play this game. It truly gets both being a southpark game and an rpg down perfect.

The Fractured but Whole builds on the foundations of The Stick of Truth. Taking everything The Stick of Truth did right and taking it to the next phase of progression. The combat system is completely reworked, replacing the rudimentary combat system with a more complex grid system. The grid system is more complex yes, but doesn't take itself too seriously to the point that it will turn casual fans of South Park away from the game play.

I would highly recommend this game to anyone who has been a fan of South Park at any point in their lives. The developers really captured the spirit of the show, and you feel like you are a part of a long episodic event. Also, the call backs to the first entry in the series are subtle and a lot of fun.

The humor is raunchy. It pushes the line on topics such as race, sexual orientation, and gender, among other things... All in all.. it IS South Park.

8.5/10

I enjoyed the game a lot. There isn’t too much stress when achievement hunting, unlike The Stick of Truth, which makes the whole gameplay much more relaxing. There’s only one missable achievement, and you need to set it up at the beginning, so it’s best to look it up before playing.

I bought it and played it one time and after that they wont let me play, saying I dont own the game and steam doesnt give me a refund

Brought the game a few months ago, played a few hours, but ultimately, life got very busy, so I put it down and forgot about it.

Today I noticed it in my library, 'oh cool, I forgot about this one, maybe I should finally have a go at it'. I download it, hop on to have a go.

Unisoft connect claims the game is linked to an email, not my email, locking me out of the game. I try logging in with my actual email, it asks me for an unlock key. This shouldn't be necessary considering I've paid for the game. I am now rendered unable to play a game I own.

Fun game with great story and classic South Park humour.
Little replayability, atleast for me.

Compared to Stick of Truth, the UI looks like shit, the controls are clankier, and you don't have any freedom, it's much more linear. I don't feel the spirit of South Park in it either as much, and the rythm of the game is worse. From the menu itself, you can feel the greed with a DLC exclusive tab.
Also, a gender thing in the character thing for kids? Really? And Craig feels the need to announce he's gay, when in the show he didn't want to. No wonder it's Ubisoft behind it. And don't get me started on the horrible minigames in the toilets, who thought that'd be a good/fun idea?? And you're forced to play a black character to get 100% achievements, at a specific deceiving difficulty, right below the hardest difficulty, and if you play the hardest difficulty, you don't unlock it. BS.

I thought it'd still be a better game than Stick of Truth based off the fact SoT is 2014 and this game was released in 2018, but I guess not.
I'm glad I didn't pay much since both games were at -80% in a pack, but don't pay this game at full price, it's a ripoff. Watch a YouTube scene compilation instead, all the fun bits without the boring gameplay.

Really well done, a great continuation from the Stick of Truth

Having up to three other buddies with you at a time makes the combat feel more interesting, and along with the new status effects and class system, this game is a marked improvement from the Stick of Truth when it comes to combat.

I didn't really like how focused the game was on the main story though; compared to the stick of truth, there are many fewer side quests to complete. To me, the town felt less alive, especially since you now explore the town alone.

In stock of truth, your buddy would follow you around and make comments about the world. Butters, for instance, will say things like "I got the worst wedgie over there" or "this one time, Cartman yadda yadda yadda." and you'll get a little bit of lore, making it feel like you're playing an episode of the show. In this game, you get tidbits of FaceTime calls on your screen, a long with social media updates from the characters on your friends list, but that feeling that you're in an episode is lost in translation.

Crafting left a lot to be desired, as I not only rarely used any potions, but most artifacts you can craft don't have any substance behind them. There's a few that are really good, but there's no story, no quest behind most of them. Many are just bought from vendors. I would much rather have had more of them be rewards for side quests

Finally, the game seems to end just when it starts to get good. You face the final 3 bosses *very* shortly after you unlock every non-dlc party member, and after you beat them, there's really not much else to do. There's a secret boss or the DLCs, which are so-so

Danger deck id skip unless you really like the game or it's bundled with a discounted gold version, it's mostly just really tough fights with a couple cosmetics and relics, you won't be able to beat them until you're pretty far into the game though, so I'd hold off until the end of you want to do another run, as the items will transfer

Casa Bonita was very entertaining, I recommend getting it and playing it as soon as you unlock Kyle's buddy ability. You get a new party member and a new class with new abilities, as well as a bunch of cosmetics and relics that transfer to other saves

Bring the Crunch is excellent all around; great writing, great addition to the party and classes, extremely useful unlocms that transfer into other saves, would definitely recommend this one if you were to get only one of the three. However, you need to play the main story until you unlock Butter's buddy ability in order to progress very far in the dlc.

Finally, the game is somewhat replayable. I did two runs, normal and mastermind, and the unlocks I got from the DLCs definitely made my mastermind run a lot easier, I might even do a completionist run on Diabolical, but 3 times through is probably enough for even the most hardcore fan of the series.

In all, it has its faults, but as a long time fan of South Park, as well as a fan of this game's predecessor, I'd highly recommend playing this game as well, especially if you can get the gold version on sale

It's a good game, I just beat it but there's so many flaws with it
1. The entire game is just going back and fourth for 15 hours, which got boring after awhile, the combat was good though

2. There's a ton of bugs, near the end of the game (for me it began at the multiple ass cat fight) the game tends to freeze constantly in the middle of the fight, which was stupid but I found a fix and it's just to press ALT + Tab each time it happens and it's really annoying as it happens tons during the fights but fixes after you leave the genetic mutation lab.

There's also a bug where an enemy can do lethal damage to your ally and kill them, but they are still alive somehow so their turn still counts but whenever they get back up they just keep fainting over and over again

3. What was the point of having a launcher in the game, good thing I already had an account but I doubt people who spent the money on the game would want to make a Ubisoft account and download additional software, just let us play the game.

Aside from all that garbage, the game was good and I had fun with it.

good comedy, fighting is phenomenal however it does get kind of repetative, but the story was good and enjoyable and i especially liked the amount that you could customize your character

game is great, I watch Jacksepticeyes playthrough every few years and love it each time. biggest problem is the amount of bugs and Ubisoft connect being needed to run the game. biggest bug Im still working on fixing now is i got soft locked because i entered a encounter, and the game ignores all input and will not continue the fight. my last save puts me before the fight in a place i cant leave so im stuck trying to "fix" the game

The game is funny as fuck and is just like the actual show

Great game. Same if not better than original. Enjoy the combat more.

The game it self is fun when it works, but most of the time it crashes and wont work. Do not buy

Great game, fun to play in the small town of southpark with which we are very familiar. Good story, good battles.

Very good sequel to stick of truth and a good stand alone game. gameplay and storyline is very good. TO ME