South Park: Snow Day Reviews
If you're a die-hard South Park fan looking for a humorous game to play with friends, South Park: Snow Day could be a good choice for a short, mildly fun experience. However, if you're seeking a lengthy, more enthralling adventure like the previous South Park titles, this game will fall short of your expectations.
Snow Day is pretty thin when it comes to both style and substance, offering not quite enough of either to hold up long-term, even with decent multiplayer support and interesting Roguelike bits.
Overall, South Park: Snow Day! is a mixed bag with its pros and its cons. It hits the nail on the head with the humor and charm that recreates what the South Park universe is all about, but its repetitive gameplay, technical issues, and lack of depth holds it back from reaching its full potential. Die-hard fans of the series may find enjoyment in the game’s humor and multiplayer modes more than the solo adventure. If there was some more polishing done and a more varied gameplay, Snow Day! could have been a standout title, but as it is, it’s best enjoyed in short bursts rather than fuller extended play sessions.
South Park: Snow Day! offers authentic writing, voice acting and gameplay that's sure to please diehard fans of the series. It's not a huge game content-wise, but that's reflected in its value pricing.
I really would have liked to come to this space with a phrase of emotion, satisfaction or happiness with Snow Day, but unfortunately it hasn't been like that. Is it the worst game in the world? No, not by a long shot, and that's why this review is ticking, but the truth is that it doesn't even overshadow the previous editions and I think that only the most die-hard fans of South Park will like it a little, so, if you are within this group, for 30 dollars it is a game that is not so bad, but I also hope you don't get your hopes up too much.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Fans of the show will no doubt get something out of this, but on a fundamental level, South Park: Snow Day! emerges as a somewhat shallow and unsatisfying experience, despite its best efforts to provide depth through cards and other light RPG elements. After Stick of Truth and The Fractured But Whole, this feels like a backwards step.
In conclusion, South Park: Snow Day! isn’t the best co-op hack ‘n slash on the market, but it’s fun and perfectly captures the anarchic humor of the TV series. Despite content shortcomings and the lack of crossplay, it offers a sufficient gameplay structure with classic ideas reinterpreted in a South Park style. With long-term support, it could become an unmissable co-op game!
Review in Italian | Read full review
South Park Snow Day did its best to captivate the essence of the famous adult-rated series but felt ineffective regarding its gameplay.
Is it fun in multiplayer? Not very much. It's also not fun for fans of the series. This game uses the form of a popular world, but does not give satisfaction.
Review in Slovak | Read full review
South Park Snow Day is passable at best. If you’ve enjoyed the show at any point and are looking to see its characters and setting depicted in game form, you’ll be much better served by what came before it in RPG form. Those are excellent examples of how to carry a property through different media while maintaining its identity and still be fun and worthy of your valuable time on this Earth.
Abandoning all charm and fun that the franchise is known for, South Park: Snow Day! manages to deliver one of the most disappointing games I’ve played in a long time. If you’re a South Park fan, this will just make you yearn for the already existing better games. And if you’re not? All you have to look forward to is mediocre gameplay and unattractive graphics. Your time and money are better spent literally anywhere else.
Boring, repetitive and unfunny. We'd rather see no new South Park games than failures like this one.
Review in Russian | Read full review
South Park: Snow Day! It's a brief, fun adventure full of humor. However, due to the lack of depth in its mechanics, it is a game that only manages to entertain during its few hours of campaign. Even with its post-game content, it is unlikely that the title will be able to captivate the player to the point of awakening the desire to play it again.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
South Park: Snow Days! may sound like the comedy fans love and offer a solid story but finds itself lacking nearly everywhere else as this roguelike struggles to impress beyond its first run.
I would love to say that I loved South Park: Snow Day. But the shallow combat, light story, and general lack of depth made me feel like this game was just scraping the surface of what it could have been. Grab it on sale to play with buddies, but beyond that, stick with the classics.
South Park: Snow Day! is a roguelike shooter experience that is short and extremely mediocre to the point of being bad. While it isn't incredibly broken, it still fails to provide a meaningful experience, especially compared to the games that came before it. The shift from 2D to 3D isn't important at all. Rather, it's the incredibly repetitive and boring approach it takes alongside its formulaic plotline that makes it feel like one of the worst episodes in the series.
Overall, if you are chasing a game that does not take long but will have you laughing at its crude humour then South Park: Snow Day has been designed for you. While its gameplay at times is a bit questionable like its jokes, ‘It’s time to go to South Park and have a time’!
South Park Snow Day is a fun game that is a perfect fit for Game Pass or PlayStation Plus. I’d wait until it hits one of those services before checking it out.
South Park: Snow Day, likes its use of COVID here feels out of date across the board. The simplistic visuals feels several generations behind, and its shallow gameplay cannot be saved by a card system that shows some true promise. As a lifelong South Park fan, I know the series can produce strong and compelling video games because we have seen it done twice before.