MobyRank MobyScore
Windows
88
4.0
Xbox
89
3.7
Xbox 360
...
1.5

Description

Adventure game legend Tim Schafer deviates from his traditional design formula with Psychonauts, a traditional console-style platformer with a very unorthodox style. At a summer camp for up-and-coming psychics, a young boy with a very unusual level of psychic ability inexplicably shows up. The boy, named Raz, is allowed to stay at the camp until his father comes to pick him up, but his arrival coincides with very strange circumstances.

Soon, evidence that someone is psychically tampering with the campers' minds reveals itself, and Raz is the only one who can stop it. As Raz, you must psychically project yourself into the psyches of several different people in order to figure out what is going on and who is behind it.

Each mind features a highly unique and stylized environment and varying gameplay, ranging from standard platform jumping to playing a Risk-like board game against Napoleon.

Alternate Titles

  • "ζ„θ―†δΈ–η•Œ" -- Chinese title (simplified)

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Merchant Title Platform Price  
Amazon
MAJESCO Psychonauts ( Windows ) Windows $4.22  
Psychonauts Xbox $16.99  
PsychoNauts PlayStation 2 $19.87  
ebay.com
Psychonauts    
GOG
Psychonauts $9.99  
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User Reviews

Clear your mental cobwebs before playing! Xbox Unicorn B. Lynx Bronze Star Contributing Member (60141)
Project your psyche into Psychonauts! Windows SDfish (1807)
Absolutely stunning... Schafer does it again! Windows Ludicrous Gibs! (40)
Very creative. Very well made. Very good. Windows Shazbut (155)
A not-so great port of a great game. Still enjoyable and worth buying, though. PlayStation 2 Benjamin Leggett (97)
Into the head of Tim Schafer Windows Little Yoda (177)
Different from all other games i have ever played. Xbox Todd Bello (32)

The Press Says

Computer Gaming World (CGW) Windows Apr 20, 2005 5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars5 Stars 100
GameLemon Xbox Jul 24, 2006 9.4 out of 10 94
Game Informer Magazine Xbox May, 2005 9 out of 10 90
1UP Xbox Apr 19, 2005 9 out of 10 90
Game Informer Magazine Xbox May, 2005 8.75 out of 10 88
GameSpot Xbox Apr 19, 2005 8.8 out of 10 88
Game Informer Magazine PlayStation 2 Aug, 2005 8.5 out of 10 85
Eurogamer.net (UK) Windows Feb 13, 2006 8 out of 10 80
PlayDevil Xbox Apr 06, 2006 4 Stars4 Stars4 Stars4 Stars4 Stars 80
GameStar (Germany) Windows Jun, 2005 77 out of 100 77

Forums

Topic # Posts Last Post
Just Finished it (sort of) 1 Joe Price
Apr 29, 2009
Windows or XBox? 10 non finito (339)
Mar 04, 2009
I hope the guy who made the final level gets fired 16 Matt Neuteboom (941)
Aug 07, 2008
Does the last level drag the game down a little? 2 Atomic Punch! (139)
Nov 05, 2007
I feel disappointed 10 Zovni (9141)
Jul 16, 2007

Trivia

The PC version was inexplicably delayed to April 27th, even after the announcement that both the Xbox and PC were shipping on their original release date. This is likely due to manufacturing complications.


This entry was contributed by Kabushi (48039), Parf (4545) and Zack Green (1024)
 

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