THQ Nordic has shared the release details of South Park: Snow Day.
As reported by PSU, South Park: Snow Day will be releasing in March 26, 2024, for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam.
Alongside this, THQ Nordic shared details on the upcoming different editions for the game.
The standard version will cost $ 29.99.
The digital deluxe edition will include the season pass and an Underwear Gnome cosmetic pack, for $ 49.99.
The collector’s edition will have copies of the same game on each platform available, retailing for $ 219.99.
Here’s the full details of what’s in the collector’s edition:
- Game on Nintendo Switch™, PlayStation®5, Xbox Series S|X, and PC
- Grand Wizard Cartman: Snow Globe
- Grand Wizard Cartman: Talking Toilet Paper Holder
- Grand Wizard Cartman: Knit Beanie
- SOUTH PARK: SNOW DAY! – Selection of 6 Tarot Cards
- SOUTH PARK: SNOW DAY! – Original Soundtrack
South Park: Snow Day has received a somewhat muted promotion, but maybe THQ Nordic is just waiting out the two month period this coming February to really start marketing it.
They did reveal last November that this game is taking a genre shift from a turn based RPG, to a 3D multiplayer co-operative game. In the game’s premise, the kids of South Park have split into factions, fighting in South Park’s snow day. Apparently it’s all part of a quest to get out of school.
The game is being developed by Question, a studio who made their name with sandbox metafictional game The Magic Circle. While shifting from that incredibly out of the box title to an online multiplayer South Park game, of all things, seems to be a wild swing, at least we know that Question is more than capable of making good games.
We really cannot avoid bringing up the convoluted behind the scenes story of the South Park video game rights of the last decade. The rights to the South Park games were originally owned by THQ, but were picked up by Ubisoft when THQ filed for bankruptcy.
Ubisoft published the Obsidian developed titles South Park: The Stick of Truth and South Park: Fractured but Whole. Now that these rights landed back to THQ Nordic, however, Obsidian has moved on to their upcoming Xbox exclusive, Avowed.
So as gamers know, this next South Park game is going to be another reboot of sorts of the kinds of games that come out for this franchise, but it does have potential. We’ll just have to wait and see next year if it turns out as good as one could hope for.
