The Best, Worst, and Weirdest South Park Games

Despite being connected TV for astir 30 years, with 28 seasons and implicit 330 episodes truthful far, determination person been shockingly fewer video games based connected the deed animated tv series, South Park. That could beryllium down to the information that video games instrumentality years to marque and the mean South Park occurrence lone takes a fewer days, meaning the accustomed topical popular civilization references that substance the amusement mightiness consciousness positively past by the clip a video crippled hits shelves. Regardless, a twelve South Park games person managed to subordinate that inclination and really get released since the amusement debuted successful 1997. Some of them large and immoderate of them..not truthful great. Here are the best, worst, and weirdest South Park games.

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The archetypal South Park video crippled ever made was an ambitious one, adjacent if a first-person snowball warring simulator didn’t precisely marque a ton of consciousness for the brand. But since section multiplayer FPS games similar Goldeneye were each the rage connected the N64 successful 1998, it’s nary astonishment that South Park got a akin treatment, adjacent if the extremity effect was overmuch sillier. Developer Iguana Entertainment (known mostly for the Turok crippled bid astatine the time) and steadfast Acclaim Entertainment came unneurotic to make a coagulated FPS crippled packed with South Park references, including a recreation of the show’s taxable song, aggregate playable characters, and Kenny dying brutally earlier the rubric surface adjacent appears. It’s not a large crippled by immoderate stretch, and seeing the traditionally level and manus drawn South Park characters arsenic debased poly 3D models was an unusual fit, but it had capable South Park instrumentality work to marque it worthy checking retired astatine the time.

South Park: Chef's Luv Shack

A twelvemonth aboriginal South Park: Chef’s Luv Shack arrived, this clip with a graphical benignant overmuch truer to the show’s 2D look. Developed erstwhile again by Acclaim, it moved distant from archetypal idiosyncratic combat, alternatively providing a crippled show-style minigame and trivia postulation for Kyle, Stan, Kenny, and Cartman to vie in. Unfortunately, it’s intolerable to play this crippled without different quality players, truthful if you were an lone kid (or conscionable a loser similar Butters), you were beauteous overmuch retired of luck. Additionally, the constricted trivia question acceptable led to a batch of repetition, meaning the gag got aged beauteous fast, and fans were erstwhile again near holding a licensed video crippled letdown.

South Park Rally

The 3rd and last Acclaim Entertainment South Park video crippled erstwhile again delivered an acquisition that critics disliked and diehard fans simply tolerated, this clip attempting to instrumentality connected the fashionable kart racing genre with the South Park licence slapped on. South Park Rally is simply a crude and disfigured kart racer with unreliable controls and lackluster way design, but hey, you tin thrust Big Gay Al’s car and propulsion Mr. Hanky turds astatine different players, truthful astatine slightest there’s that.

Despite the show’s immense popularity, South Park video games ended up taking a 7 twelvemonth hiatus aft this capped disconnected Acclaim's trilogy of games, which astir apt pleased South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, seeing arsenic they erstwhile said during a DVD commentary for an occurrence of the show: “Oh God, the South Park games were truthful bad. We were truthful bummed retired connected those, due to the fact that we emotion playing video games.”

South Park 10: The Game

In 2007, South Park celebrated its 10th play connected the aerial little than spectacularly by releasing a bare bones, Europe exclusive mobile crippled that referenced cardinal moments from the show. South Park 10: The Game is simply a abbreviated and precise no-frills platformer that looks similar a instrumentality made flash game. Aside from collecting hidden Cheesy Poofs successful each level, there’s not overmuch to bash oregon spot erstwhile you rotation credits successful nether an hour. Still, it was bully to spot idiosyncratic utilizing the licence again, adjacent if the last merchandise was wholly average. But you could play arsenic a cattle astir 2 decades earlier Mario Kart World fto you, truthful hey, there’s that.

South Park: Let's Go Tower Defense Play!

Two years later, Xbox Live Arcade got its ain South Park operation defence game, pitting its main characters against waves of ginger kids, hippies, cows, and much arsenic they tried to prevention their idyllic and weird small town. The 2D creation direction, authoritative voices and dependable effects, and iconic wit elevated a beauteous bog modular operation defence outing into an really coagulated South Park video game.

South Park Mega Millionaire

Once again revisiting the crippled amusement mounting for reasons that are unclear, 2009’s South Park Mega Millionaire - blistery disconnected the heels of 2008’s deed film, Slumdog Millionaire - was a mobile crippled that decided it was a bully thought to strap roller skates to the South Park kids and enactment them successful precarious platforming situations successful beforehand of a unrecorded workplace audience. It’s not a large crippled by immoderate stretch, but it does person 1 of the champion South Park video crippled jokes of each time, arsenic the kids past a Japanese crippled amusement successful hopes to triumph a 10 1000 yen prize; unbeknownst to them, 10 1000 yen equates to astir sixty 3 dollars.

South Park: Tenorman's Revenge

2012's Tenorman’s Revenge is different Xbox exclusive South Park game, this clip revisiting Scott Tenorman, a quality from the infamous South Park occurrence wherever Cartman makes Scott devour chili made from the bodies of Scott’s ain dormant parents. Well, Scott Tenorman has returned to get revenge successful video crippled signifier successful this little and mediocre platforming crippled which is lone concisely improved by the occasional brag combat and its cardinal crippled device, which focuses connected the kids having to retrieve a stolen Xbox 360 hard thrust on with each of their precious crippled prevention files.

South Park: The Stick of Truth

As you tin astir apt archer by now, the archetypal 16 years of South Park games near a batch to beryllium desired. Everything changed successful 2014 with South Park: The Stick of Truth, a genuinely large RPG that, dissimilar erstwhile South Park games, was made with nonstop input from the show’s creators. Known for their erstwhile enactment connected franchises similar Fallout and Star Wars, developer Obsidian Entertainment built a fantastic and hilarious 2.5D relation playing crippled that looked and felt astir exactly like an occurrence of the show. It’s not conscionable 1 of the champion licensed games ever made, it's besides a fantastic turn-based RPG successful its ain right, and decidedly the lone crippled successful the genre wherever you person to shrink down your quality tiny capable to research a quality anus truthful you tin disarm a bomb. Take that, Final Fantasy.

South Park: Pinball

Zen Studios, creators of the fantabulous integer pinball franchise Zen Pinball, created a acceptable of South Park pinball tables that wholly understood the assignment, mixing stone coagulated gameplay and hilarious amusement references to fantabulous results. There’s adjacent a dedicated Butters pinball table, arsenic good arsenic Mr. Hanky inspired brownish pinballs, successful lawsuit you ever wanted to sound a clump of pellet-shaped turds astir to vie for precocious scores.

South Park: The Fractured But Whole

2017’s sequel to The Stick of Truth was The Fractured But Whole, which was probably/possibly legally arsenic adjacent arsenic they could get to putting the connection “butthole” successful a video crippled title. Fractured But Whole is different fantastic and comic RPG, this clip satirizing the superhero movie genre much than conscionable relation playing games successful general, and erstwhile again looking precisely similar an occurrence of the show. This clip astir the conflict strategy takes spot connected a grid implicit with biology hazards similar LEGO bricks that tin injure characters erstwhile stepped on, and features levels similar the Peppermint Hippo, a portion nine implicit with a lapdance minigame sequence, conscionable successful lawsuit you were disquieted that South Park would suffer its borderline successful a Ubisoft published video game.

South Park: Phone Destroyer

That aforesaid year, South Park: Phone Destroyer was - you guessed it - a mobile game, which conscionable truthful happens to beryllium the lone South Park mobile crippled you tin inactive download and play connected your telephone today. Phone Destroyer is simply a free-to-play paper battling crippled that does a amazingly bully occupation of playing to the strengths of its platform. You’ll person believable calls and texts from Cartman, and you tin unlock aggregate endings based connected however overmuch existent wealth players walk connected premium microtransactions, adjacent shaming you and telling you to question assistance with addiction if you walk excessively much. More mobile games should bash that. The satellite would beryllium a amended place.

South Park: Snow Day!

The latest (but hopefully not the last) South Park video crippled is South Park: Snow Day, a sloppy enactment escapade roguelike that simultaneously attempts to implicit the communicative established successful Stick of Truth and Fractured But Whole, portion besides returning to the archetypal South Park game’s snowball warring roots. It’s a shame that Snow Day doesn’t adjacent travel adjacent to being amusive oregon funny, with IGN’s ain reappraisal calling it “thoroughly unenjoyable,” and “uncharacteristicly toothless and unfunny.”

It’s been a weird, windy roadworthy for South Park games, but with the caller Fortnite collaboration and megadeal renewal of the show, thing tells maine we’re conscionable getting started and that hopefully, much South Park games are connected the way.

So what’s your favourite South Park video crippled ever made? What’s your imagination South Park crippled thought that you’d emotion to spot someday? Go connected down to the comments conception and permission your woes behind. And if you privation much astir video crippled tie-ins to highly palmy animated sitcoms that person been connected TV for decades, spell cheque retired my video astir the best, worst, and weirdest Simpsons video games.