South Park: Phone Destroyer

An incredibly fun & enjoyable experience based on South Park but with a strong mix of gaming styles. Very re-playable. It reflects perfectly the South Park style.

Phone Destroyer is simply so well-made that it makes you forget or overlook some of its pay-to-win DNA, and that’s no easy feat. Viva la New Kid.

You should definitely play South Park Phone Destroyer if you like the TV series. As the New Kid you battle through the streets of South Park in a card collective game. Though the new take on this genre does get repetitive, it still provides fun. For free.

Phone Destroyer is pure hypocrisy, as it shamelessly ticks all the boxes from Parker and Stone’s guide on preying on susceptible people using mobile titles (episode Freemium Isn’t Free of the TV show). The game looks good though and has the show’s unique vibe, so the fans should enjoy it for a while, until they get tired of shallow, repetitive gameplay. [01/2018, p.51]

Instead of a showmanship experience, Phone Destroyer decides to draw inspiration from a champion like Clash Royale.

South Park: Phone Destroyer makes a good impression but suffers from some gameplay decisions. The game is funny and offers lots of stuff for free but the online mode shouldn't be connected in any way to the single player campaign. Mobile PS has lots of potential that is thwarted by too much randomness and a flawed PvP.

South Park: Phone Destroyer is a fun game to play once in a while if you love crass jokes and witty satires but it is basically a very watered down version of Clash Royale with some debatable design choices.

There is probably a really fun South Park card game buried in Phone Destroyer somewhere. If the economy was fairer and the PvP was more strategic, it might be worthy of my time. As it stands right now, I’ve hit the point where I have pretty much no choice but to open my wallet if I want to compete and the game just isn’t fun enough to convince me to do that.

South Park: Phone Destroyer is a title with good potential, but with an identity crisis. It keeps trying to remind us of its license with its humor and satire, but gets held back by its gameplay, that gets influenced by the microtransactions.

Fans of the show will enjoy the characters and humour, but everything else Phone Destroyer has to offer is done better elsewhere.

South Park: Phone Destroyer is an ok Clash Royale clone, but does precious little with its license and feels overburdened with free-to-play hooks.

Freemium and PvP are two words that should never be together as the focus of a game, and South Park: Phone Destroyer proves why. The heavy focus of the PvP, mixed with extreme freemium mechanics that require multiples of legendaries to just scratch the surface, makes it feel extremely tedious to play past the point where PvP farming starts to become mandatory.