Psychonauts
BANGER · Action · 2006
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $9.99.
- Length
- 12h
- Value
- $0.83/hr
- Reviews
- 95% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, 3.8 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
A Psychic Odyssey Through the Minds of Misfits, Monsters, and Madmen. This classic action/adventure platformer from acclaimed developers Double Fine Productions follows the story of a young psychic named Razputin.
What drives the score
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.89, set in April 2025. 79 discounts in the 14 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 1 percent on value. It is pricier than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games closest to it, Psychonauts 2 ($59.99, scores 64) and Crash Bandicoot™ N. Sane Trilogy ($39.99, scores 65) both come in lower.
The math says it holds its tier up to $14.29, and you are being asked for $9.99.
Critics scored it 87. Players sit 8 points higher at 95 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
9 of the 676 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 80 percent of the 886 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
52% start to 4% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
56 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Psychonauts is such a great game because it's genuinely different from anything else. The world is weird in the best way, and every level has its own style and ideas that make exploring feel exciting. I really loved how the game takes you inside different characters' minds, because each one feels completely unique and tells you something about that character. The humor is also one of the best parts. The characters...
Charming, Intriguing, Incredibly funny, but still so annoying. I went into this thinking I was going to get a funny platformer with some weird stuff thrown in there to make things interesting. In the end I did get that but I was also left incredibly frustrated. Pros: The art direction is just amazing. I mean just look at the cover. It perfectly showcases the direction of the game and how weird it is. It also...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Psychonauts scores 92/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3830/psychonautsThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 13, price as of Sep 24.
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