Is South Park: Snow Day! single-player?

Is solo a no go?

An image of Cartman and the player character kids from South Park Snow Day
Image via THQ Nordic

South Park: Snow Day is the next game in the long-running franchise, and it promises more opportunities to explore its namesake town in a co-op experience, but it begs the question: can you do so solo, Cartman-style?

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Can you play South Park: Snow Day! solo?

An image of customizable player characters from South Park Snow Day
You won’t be going it alone…you have no choice. Image via THQ Nordic.

No, you won’t be able to play South Park: Snow Day completely alone, though this doesn’t mean that you have to play with real people. The game is completely co-operative. You will be joining forces with up to three other players and will play through the story as a group of four. 

This can be done via local co-op, but if you don’t want to play with others—or if you only have one or two other people that you want to play with—, then you can also play with computer-controlled AI characters. You won’t have the chance to play as one solo character, though. 

This might be a little disappointing for those hoping for a game similar to the two previous and recent South Park titles—The Stick of Truth and Fractured But Whole—which were entirely single-player affairs. However, creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have had as much input in Snow Day as they did with the other two games, so I think we can trust that they have chosen the gameplay mechanic that suits Snow Day best, just as they did with SoT and FBW back in the day. 

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Antonia Haynes is a freelance general gaming writer for Dot Esports who resides in a small seaside town in England where she has lived her whole life. Beginning her video game writing career back in 2014, and having an avid love of gaming since childhood, she became a staff writer in 2018 before becoming freelance in 2023 with her role at Dot Esports. Her ideal day would consist of junk food, fluffy pyjamas and video games because quite frankly going outside is overrated.