Psychonauts
Comedy 3D platformer exploring strange worlds inside troubled minds
Double Fine Productions · Released Oct 11, 2006
- Reviews
- Very Positive
- 95% of 19K
- Recent reviews
- Very Positive
- 90% of 108 in 30 days
- Playing now
- 19
- right now
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Last update
- Unknown
- no patch notes found
Metacritic: 87/100 (critic reviews)
What is Psychonauts?
A single-player third-person action-adventure platformer set at a psychic summer camp and within characters’ minds. As Razputin, a young psychic seeking to join the Psychonauts, you explore distinct mental worlds, cross platforming challenges, fight enemies, and use powers such as telekinesis and levitation after his fellow campers’ brains are stolen.
For you if...
- +you enjoy comedy-driven 3D platformers with unusual characters
- +you like varied levels built around characters’ minds
- +you want a story-focused single-player adventure
Not for you if...
- −you want multiplayer rather than a solo adventure
- −you prefer realistic settings to strange psychological worlds
What players say
95% of 19,328 reviews are positive · 90% of 108 in the last 30 days
Players most often praise the varied mind-based levels, unusual cast, writing, and humor. Common complaints concern clunky movement, platforming, and camera controls; players also report spinning-camera and controller-mapping problems on handheld PCs, plus graphical issues on macOS.
Screenshots and trailer
Psychonauts system requirements
As published by the developer.
Minimum
- OS
- Windows 98 SE/2000/XP
- Processor
- 1.0 GHz Pentium(R) III and AMD Athlon(tm)
- Graphics
- 64 MB GeForce (tm) 3 or higher or ATI(R) Radeon 8500 or higher (except GeForce 4 MX and Go series)
- Memory
- 256 MB of RAM
- Storage
- 3.75 GB minimum hard drive space
Recommended
- OS
- Windows 2000/XP
- Processor
- 2.0 GHz Pentium(R) IV and AMD Athlon(tm)
- Graphics
- , 128 MB GeForce FX 5600 or higher or ATI(R) Radeon 9600 or higher
- Memory
- 512 MB of RAM
- Storage
- 6.0 GB minimum hard drive space
PC version details
DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- Achievements
- 37
- Steam features
- Cloud saves, Family Sharing, Trading cards
Steam Deck: Playable
- Default controller config not fully functional
- Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
- Some text entry requires manually opening the on-screen keyboard
- The native resolution is not the default one
- In-game text is legible on Steam Deck
- Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
- Cloud saves are not shared across platforms
Tags
- Platformer
- Comedy
- Adventure
- Singleplayer
- Action
- Funny
- 3D Platformer
- Third Person
- Classic
- Story Rich
- Psychological
- Great Soundtrack
- Surreal
- Cartoony
- Collectathon
- Exploration
2 DLC available.
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