IGN praised The Stick of Truth for its witty and intelligent satire of the role-playing genre, while others said that as well as being consistently funny, the game was suitably boisterous, shocking, provocative, self-effacing, and fearless in its desire to offend.

The boys send the player to recruit the girls, as he has some mysterious ability to gain Facebook Friends at a rate never seen before. At the inaugural Game Awards event, Trey Parker won for "Best Performance" for his multiple roles, and the game received two nominations for "Best Role-Playing Game" and "Best Narrative". Some other staff at the studio also didn't feel comfortable working on a South Park-related game due to its controversial subject matter.

He is crushed by the mother's breasts before he can explain what it does, and the player is crushed by the father's scrotum. Befriending the local boys, he becomes involved in an epic fantasy live action role-playing game featuring wizards and warriors battling for control of the Stick of Truth, a twig that possesses limitless power. From the perilous battlefields of the fourth-grade playground, a young hero will rise, destined to be South Park’s savior. Following its release, Stone said that the work involved in making the game was much more than he and Parker had anticipated. IGN also said some missions and side quests were tedious, and were elevated by their setting rather than their quality, [5] while the reviewer thought the environmental puzzles were a clever option for avoiding combat and were rare enough to be enjoyable when available.

Development of South Park: The Stick of Truth took four years, beginning in 2009 when South Park co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone contacted Obsidian Entertainment to discuss their desire to make a South Park game. However while escaping, you take out the pilots of the ship, which results in it crashing into South Park Mall, letting out a green toxin. Reviewers considered the combat mechanics to be simplistic while allowing for complex tactics, and others said that the requirement to actively defend against enemy attacks and enhance offense kept fights engaging.

The creators were reportedly incredibly impressed at Obsidian's recreation of the show's every last detail, right down to the texture of the construction paper. IGN listed it as the 50th-best game of the contemporary console generation, [120] and Giant Bomb named it the Best Surprise of 2014 for overcoming its development issues. Arm yourself with an impressive arsenal of magical weapons and mystical armor to combat various foes, including underpants gnomes, hippies, and other forces of evil. Previously released South Park games, such as South Park (1998) and South Park Rally (2000), featured three-dimensional graphics and gameplay that bore little resemblance to the show's distinctive two-dimensional cardboard cutout animation style. Douchebag refuses but Princess Kenny betrays the group, uses the Stick to fight them and infects himself with the Nazi Zombie virus.

PLAYSTATION GAME CODE EU : Playstation Code for Europe only to download and play South Park The Stick of Truth on European Account.At the 2015 South by Southwest festival, the game received the "Excellence in Convergence" award for achievements in adapting material from another entertainment medium.