30 Games like South Park™: The Stick of Truth™ on PlayStation that you should try

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We filtered the 50 games similar to South Park™: The Stick of Truth™ down to the 30 that fit the “PlayStation” category. Breath of Fire IV, God of War Ragnarök and Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor top the list, ranked by affinity and similarity score to South Park™: The Stick of Truth™.

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The best games like South Park™: The Stick of Truth™ on PlayStation

30 similar games foundUpdated May 2026

Handpicked by our similarity algorithm, these are the titles with the highest gameplay match to South Park™: The Stick of Truth™. Each one has been evaluated across 14 real attributes — from combat style and progression mechanics to world structure and visual perspective — so every recommendation is based on how the game actually plays, not just its genre label.

#1Breath of Fire IVClosest on genre

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SoloMagicMeleeFantasyThird Person

Steam👍 76%· 488IGDB80· 1

Year 2000Dev CapcomOn PlayStation 3 · PC

✓ Fits the third-person Action RPGs cluster, with deep RPG systems, turn-based strategy and adventure storytelling

≠ Stands apart with setting scifi, while skipping dark, oppressive atmosphere

On reception: its Steam reviews are mostly positive, against overwhelmingly positive for South Park™: The Stick of Truth™.

It predates South Park™: The Stick of Truth™ by 14 years, with what that implies technically.

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#2God of War RagnarökClosest overall match

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SoloMeleeMagicRangedDarkOpen WorldFantasyExplorationSkill TreeThird Person

Steam👍 89%· 46KIGDB95· 13

Year 2022Dev SIE Santa Monica Studio · Sony Interactive EntertainmentOn PS4 · PC · PS5

✓ Fits the third-person Action RPGs cluster, with deep RPG systems, adventure storytelling and dark, oppressive atmosphere

≠ Stands apart with action RPG combat, strong narrative focus and punishing difficulty, while skipping turn-based strategy

Where it drifts furthest from South Park™: The Stick of Truth™: tone and setting.

On reception: its Steam reviews are very positive, against overwhelmingly positive for South Park™: The Stick of Truth™.

Released 8 years after South Park™: The Stick of Truth™.

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#3Middle-earth: Shadow of MordorClosest on visuals

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SoloMeleeRangedMagicDarkOpen WorldFantasyExplorationSkill TreeThird Person

Steam👍 92%· 96KIGDB84· 18OC85· 103

Year 2014Dev Monolith Productions · WB GamesOn PlayStation 3 · PS4 · Linux

✓ Fits the third-person Action RPGs cluster, with deep RPG systems, adventure storytelling and dark, oppressive atmosphere

≠ Where it differs: brings action RPG combat, sandbox freedom and strong narrative focus, while skipping turn-based strategy

On reception: its Steam reviews are very positive, against overwhelmingly positive for South Park™: The Stick of Truth™.

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#4Hogwarts LegacyClosest on setting

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SoloMagicMeleeDarkOpen WorldFantasyExplorationSkill TreeThird Person

Steam👍 90%· 366KRAWG👍 75%· 935IGDB85· 9OC84· 176

Year 2023Dev Avalanche Software · Warner Bros. InteractivePlaytime ~30hOn PC · PS · Xbox

✓ Fits the third-person Action RPGs cluster, with deep RPG systems, adventure storytelling and dark, oppressive atmosphere

≠ Where it differs: brings action RPG combat, puzzle design and strong narrative focus, while skipping turn-based strategy

The castle is the achievement: densely built, worth exploring on its own terms, and full of small detail. Spell-chaining combat is more involved than expected. Outside it, the open world follows a familiar checklist of camps and puzzles, and the main story resolves in a rush that leaves several threads sitting unfinished.

On reception: its Steam reviews are very positive, against overwhelmingly positive for South Park™: The Stick of Truth™.

Released 9 years after South Park™: The Stick of Truth™.

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SoloMagicRangedMeleeOpen WorldFantasyExplorationSkill TreeThird Person

Steam👍 55%· 3.2KIGDB64· 5

Year 2010Dev Spellbound Entertainment · DreamCatcher InteractiveOn PS4 · Linux · PC

✓ Both are third-person Action RPGs — sharing deep RPG systems, adventure storytelling and open world exploration

≠ Its own twist: action RPG combat, stealth mechanics and historical setting, while skipping turn-based strategy

A Gothic sequel by a different studio that traded the series' hostile, systems-heavy world for a conventional open-world action RPG with accessible combat and a clear quest structure. Taken on its own terms it is a competent, slightly janky European RPG. Taken as Gothic it is widely rejected, and the PC build still has unresolved resolution and display bugs on current Windows.

Where it drifts furthest from South Park™: The Stick of Truth™: setting.

On reception: its Steam reviews are mixed, against overwhelmingly positive for South Park™: The Stick of Truth™.

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SoloMeleeMagicDarkOpen WorldFantasyExplorationSkill TreeThird Person

Steam👍 76%· 22KIGDB71· 11OC74· 124

Year 2019Dev Spiders · Focus EntertainmentOn Xbox · PS4 · PC

✓ Both are third-person Action RPGs — sharing deep RPG systems, adventure storytelling and dark, oppressive atmosphere

≠ Where it differs: brings action RPG combat and strong narrative focus, while skipping turn-based strategy

A mid-budget RPG with a colonial-era setting that is genuinely unusual, and diplomacy that can resolve most quests without combat if you invest in it. Faction reputation matters. Production values show the budget — environments repeat heavily between regions, animation is stiff, and combat never becomes more than adequate.

Where it drifts furthest from South Park™: The Stick of Truth™: tone.

On reception: its Steam reviews are mostly positive, against overwhelmingly positive for South Park™: The Stick of Truth™.

Released 5 years after South Park™: The Stick of Truth™.

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#7God of War IIIClosest on tone

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Year 2010Dev SCE Santa Monica Studio · Sony Computer EntertainmentOn PlayStation 3

✓ Same family of third-person Action RPGs: deep RPG systems, adventure storytelling and dark, oppressive atmosphere

≠ Its own twist: action RPG combat, historical setting and setting mythology, while skipping turn-based strategy

Where it drifts furthest from South Park™: The Stick of Truth™: setting and progression.

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#8Risen 3: Titan Lords

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SoloMagicMeleeDarkOpen WorldFantasyExplorationSkill TreeThird Person

Steam👍 74%· 6.4KIGDB51· 7OC60· 41

Year 2014Dev Piranha Bytes · Deep SilverOn PlayStation 3 · PC

✓ Both are third-person Action RPGs — sharing deep RPG systems, adventure storytelling and dark, oppressive atmosphere

≠ Its own twist: action RPG combat, strong narrative focus and setting medieval, while skipping turn-based strategy

An old-school European RPG: three factions with genuinely different magic schools, a world that does not scale to your level, and exploration that rewards wandering into places you are not ready for. Combat is its weakest link — stiff, poorly telegraphed, and frustrating in the early hours before your character is competent at anything.

On reception: its Steam reviews are mostly positive, against overwhelmingly positive for South Park™: The Stick of Truth™.

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SoloMeleeDarkOpen WorldFantasyExplorationSkill TreeThird Person

Steam👍 89%· 13KRAWG👍 74%· 1.2KMC83IGDB82· 7

Year 2010Dev THQ · THQ NordicPlaytime ~3hOn PC · PS · Xbox

✓ Same family of third-person Action RPGs: deep RPG systems, adventure storytelling and dark, oppressive atmosphere

≠ Where it differs: brings action RPG combat, puzzle design and post-apocalyptic world, while skipping turn-based strategy

In Darksiders, you play as War - one of the Four Horsemen Of The Apocalypse. Two kingdoms, Heaven and Hell, could never solve their disagreements and battled each other from the beginning of time.

On reception: its Steam reviews are very positive, against overwhelmingly positive for South Park™: The Stick of Truth™.

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SoloMeleeMagicDarkFantasySkill TreeThird Person

Steam👍 68%· 4.0KIGDB57· 11OC56· 69

Year 2014Dev Spiders · Focus EntertainmentOn PlayStation 3 · PS4 · PC

✓ Fits the third-person Action RPGs cluster, with deep RPG systems, adventure storytelling and dark, oppressive atmosphere

≠ Its own twist: action RPG combat, strong narrative focus and punishing difficulty, while skipping turn-based strategy

Where it drifts furthest from South Park™: The Stick of Truth™: progression.

On reception: its Steam reviews are mixed, against overwhelmingly positive for South Park™: The Stick of Truth™.

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#11Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch

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SoloMagicOpen WorldFantasyExplorationThird Person

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Year 2011Dev LEVEL-5On PlayStation 3 · Switch

✓ Nearly identical: deep RPG systems, adventure storytelling and open world exploration.

≠ Missing: turn-based strategy.

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#12X-Blades

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SoloMeleeMagicFantasyThird Person

Steam👍 62%· 3.2KRAWG👍 26%· 166MC54IGDB47· 3

Year 2007Dev Gaijin Entertainment · 1C CompanyPlaytime ~4hOn PC · PS · Xbox

✓ Same family of third-person Action RPGs: deep RPG systems, adventure storytelling and melee combat

≠ Where it differs: brings action RPG combat, shooter and third-person shooting, while skipping turn-based strategy

X-Blades is a hack and slash game in the fantasy setting. It follows Ayumi, a young adventurer that uses two pistol-blades. One day she was cursed and now needs to find the way to break free from it. You take on the role of Ayumi and lead her through hordes of monster towards the secrets of her world.

On reception: its Steam reviews are mixed, against overwhelmingly positive for South Park™: The Stick of Truth™.

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#13Dark Cloud

GenreRPGSubgenreAction RPGSub-subgenreThird-Person ARPG

SoloMagicDarkFantasyThird Person

Year 2000Dev LEVEL-5 · Sony Computer EntertainmentOn PS4

✓ Fits the third-person Action RPGs cluster, with deep RPG systems, adventure storytelling and dark, oppressive atmosphere

≠ Stands apart with deep simulation, while skipping turn-based strategy

It predates South Park™: The Stick of Truth™ by 14 years, with what that implies technically.

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#14Rise of the Argonauts

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SoloMeleeMagicFantasyThird Person

Steam👍 73%· 811RAWG👍 41%· 94MC59IGDB60· 2

Year 2008Dev Liquid Entertainment · CodemastersPlaytime ~1hOn PC · PS · Xbox

✓ Both are third-person Action RPGs — sharing deep RPG systems, adventure storytelling and melee combat

≠ Its own twist: action RPG combat, historical setting and setting mythology, while skipping turn-based strategy

###The role model Released in 2008, the game, is similar to another well-known representative of the genre of action-role-playing games God of War series. Developers became studio Liquid Entertainment, and the publisher company Codemasters.

Where it drifts furthest from South Park™: The Stick of Truth™: setting.

On reception: its Steam reviews are mostly positive, against overwhelmingly positive for South Park™: The Stick of Truth™.

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#15DmC: Devil May Cry

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SoloMeleeDarkFantasyThird Person

Steam👍 93%· 32KIGDB82· 12

Year 2013Dev Ninja Theory · CapcomOn PlayStation 3 · PC

✓ Fits the third-person Action RPGs cluster, with deep RPG systems, adventure storytelling and dark, oppressive atmosphere

≠ Its own twist: action RPG combat, puzzle design and fighting mechanics, while skipping turn-based strategy

Ninja Theory's reboot, with a reimagined Dante switching between angel and demon weapons in a Limbo that reshapes itself around him. As a standalone action game the combat is fluid and the levels are the most visually inventive in the series. It is also mechanically simpler than DMC3 or 5, the writing tries hard to be edgy, and the constant camera shake genuinely causes motion sickness for some.

On reception: its Steam reviews are very positive, against overwhelmingly positive for South Park™: The Stick of Truth™.

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