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Psychonauts

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4.7/5

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4.7

288 Reviews

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Psychonauts
Description
Delve into people's minds as Raz, a powerful young cadet at a psychic summer camp. While working on his merit badge in levitation, Raz discovers that someone is kidnapping psychic children and stealing their brains. To foil this evil plot and earn the title of Psychonaut, Raz must project himself in...
Genre:
Action - Adventure - Platformer
Tags:
Adventure, Action, Story Rich, 2D, Exploration, show 8 more... Classic, Great Soundtrack, Funny, Platformer, Third Person, Cartoony, Surreal, Psychological
Critics reviews
100 %
Recommend
IGN
8.7/10
GamesRadar+
8.9/10
Eurogamer
8/10
User reviews

4.7/5

( 288 Reviews )

4.7

288 Reviews

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Product details
2005, Double Fine Productions, ESRB Rating: Teen...
System requirements
Windows 10, 1.0 GHz Pentium(R) III and AMD Athlon(tm), 2 GB RAM, 3D graphics card compatible with Di...
Time to beat
12 hMain
15 h Main + Sides
21.5 h Completionist
14.5 h All Styles

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Description
Delve into people's minds as Raz, a powerful young cadet at a psychic summer camp. While working on his merit badge in levitation, Raz discovers that someone is kidnapping psychic children and stealing their brains. To foil this evil plot and earn the title of Psychonaut, Raz must project himself into the mind of one bizarre character after another to battle their nightmares and inner demons. He does all this while continuing to earn psychic merit badges in subjects such as telekinesis, clairvoyance and fire-starting.

This amazing 3D platformer adventure, full of brilliant humor, trippy setting, and surreal action, became famous for its originality and excellence of design. If you're looking for a unique gaming experience, this is a fine pick. More than just fine, as a matter of fact--double fine!
  • A brilliant story that will not let go of you until you finish the game
  • An absolutely unique atmosphere with a psychedelical level design by Tim Schafer's famous Double Fine team
  • One of the greatest titles of the platformer genre

©2005 Majesco Entertainment Company. All Rights Reserved

Goodies
manual (30 pages) artworks HD wallpapers avatars
System requirements
Minimum system requirements:
Recommended system requirements:
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Why buy on GOG.COM?
DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
Safety and satisfaction. Stellar support 24/7 and full refunds up to 30 days.
Time to beat
12 hMain
15 h Main + Sides
21.5 h Completionist
14.5 h All Styles

Game length provided by HowLongToBeat

Game details
Genre:
Action - Adventure - Platformer
Tags:
Adventure, Action, Story Rich, 2D, Exploration, show 8 more... Classic, Great Soundtrack, Funny, Platformer, Third Person, Cartoony, Surreal, Psychological
Works on:
Windows (10, 11), Linux (Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 22.04), Mac OS X (10.11+)
Release date:
{{'2005-04-19T00:00:00+03:00' | date: 'longDate' : ' +0300 ' }}
Company:
Double Fine Productions / Double Fine Productions
Size:
4.1 GB
Links:
Forum discussion
Rating:
ESRB Rating: Teen (Cartoon Violence, Violence, Language, Crude Humor)
Game features
Cloud saves
Controller support
Overlay
Single-player
Languages
English
audio
text
Deutsch
audio
text
français
audio
text
Critics reviews
89
Top Critic Average
100 %
Critics Recommend
OpenCritic Rating
IGN
8.7/10
The first half of this game is easily one of the most enjoyable I've had in the past year. But as is the case with many humorous games, the laughs begin to fade in the home stretch and in the end Psychonauts started to wear on me.
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GamesRadar+
8.9/10
Inspired, delightful and at times bordering on the insane. Psychonauts is mind-blowing, however it's tricky at times and definitely not for kids.
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Eurogamerby Kristan Reed
8/10
What's unavoidable is the fact that almost all of the problems that weigh Psychonauts down are borne out of the legacy that the platform genre itself has, and Double Fine - like so many other developers - has largely been unable to avoid falling into the same pitfalls of inconsistent level design and unwise difficulty spikes. Dammit.
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Posted on: March 24, 2019

atomicpenguin92

Verified owner

Games: 28 Reviews: 1

Inventive, Funny, Epic

The Saturday morning cartoon of games. The story is just so good. The gameplay is fun. The characters are excellent. It is a warm comfort blanket of a game that makes me feel like a kid in the summer school holidays. It's innocent yet not childish to the point where you feel like your playing Winnie the Pooh the game, oh no.. I'm 27 and still enjoy this game. It has intelligence. The game oozes with inventive style and level design. It's quirky and funny and some of the best gaming fun I've had. A love letter to platformer games.

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Posted on: August 1, 2019

Sildring

Verified owner

Games: 596 Reviews: 17

A Must Play

Psychonauts is without a doubt one of the best and most original 3D platformer ever made. Every detail about the game is so polished that it’s simply impossible to not fall in love with Tim Schafer’s work. You can only be amazed at the ingenuity of the levels with their incredible design and theme. Everything in this game feels so memorable, it’s so well made that after playing the game you can’t stop thinking about everything you saw. Who could forget the ‘Milkman Conspiracy’ ? It’s pure genius ! With it’s very interesting story, charming environments, funny humor, clever level design, beautiful art-style and overall theme; Double Fine Productions first ever game is a true masterpiece that you need to experience at least once in your gamer life.

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Posted on: December 14, 2020

blammy314568

Verified owner

Games: 21 Reviews: 14

Classic! Highly recommended!

This game is utterly brilliant in graphics, voice acting, music, plot, and game play even if it is fifteen years old. Buy it if you like this genre of game! I play it on LinuxMint 20 Cinnamon 64-bit. Psychonauts version 1.05 (gog-4). It installs, plays, and performs very well. The only issue I had was that the game defaults to a windowed low screen resolution setting when you first play it. Going in to the graphical settings, for some reason the actual buttons and check mark boxes to change this are all out alignment. It took me nearly twenty minutes of randomly moving the mouse around to find each one to set to full screen and maximum resolution and graphical settings. This is almost a deal breaker, so just be aware that you might encounter this if it is not unique to my setup. I just did some research and found a work around for this problem on the GOG forums. https://www.gog.com/forum/psychonauts/how_to_change_resolution_on_manjaro_linux It really would be better if GOG and/or Double Fine would correct this issue.

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Posted on: June 7, 2023

orphancripp1er

Verified owner

Games: 252 Reviews: 9

still great in 2023

the game encourages and rewards experimenting and exploring. plays like an animated move full of charm and humour. I spend a bit over 21 hours on it but should be possible to finish it faster if you were so inclined. trust the ratings and treat yourself to this absolute gem

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Posted on: November 5, 2009

Huantalahnmi

Verified owner

Games: 437 Reviews: 7

I already own it, and you should

One of the beast platformers I've ever seen. Put it on your shelf next to the Sands of Time series and Super Mario Galaxy. Psychonauts has everything: a good story, funny characters, all kinds of situations, varied levels...Nowadays this game it's worth 29.99€, and it costs only 9.99€!!! Do not hesitate. You won't regret buying it.

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