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.

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Alternate Titles

"意识世界" -- Chinese Title (Simplified)

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Part of the Following Groups

Merchant	Title	Platform	Price
	Psychonauts
	Psychonauts	PlayStation 2	$19.90
	Psychonauts	Xbox	$14.95
	MAJESCO Psychonauts ( Windows )	Windows	$7.97
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User Reviews

Clear your mental cobwebs before playing!	Xbox	JazzOleg (53181)
Project your psyche into Psychonauts!	Windows	SDfish (1499)
Absolutely stunning... Schafer does it again!	Windows	Ludicrous Gibs! (40)
Very creative. Very well made. Very good.	Windows	Shazbut (129)
A not-so great port of a great game. Still enjoyable and worth buying, though.	PlayStation 2	Benjamin Leggett (61)
Into the head of Tim Schafer	Windows	Little Yoda (111)
Different from all other games i have ever played.	Xbox	Todd Bello (32)

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The Press Says

UOL Jogos	Windows	Jun 03, 2005		100
TeamXbox	Xbox	Apr 19, 2005	9.4 out of 10	94
PC Gameplay (Benelux)	Windows	Dec, 2005	91 out of 100	91
ActionTrip	Windows	May 13, 2005	91 out of 100	91
1UP	PlayStation 2	Jun 21, 2005	9 out of 10	90
GameZone	PlayStation 2	Jul 07, 2005	9 out of 10	90
GameSpy	Xbox	Apr 22, 2005		90
Game Informer Magazine	Xbox	May, 2005	8.75 out of 10	88
PC Games (Germany)	Windows	Jan 23, 2006	85 out of 100	85
2404.org PC Gaming	Windows	Aug 05, 2005	7.2 out of 10	72

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Forums

Topic	# Posts	Last Post
I hope the guy who made the final level gets fired	16	Matt Neuteboom (939) 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 (8842) Jul 16, 2007

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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.

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This entry was contributed by Kabushi (39993) and Zack Green (1030)