Psychonauts
BANGER · Action · 2006
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 85% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99BANGER
Typical seasonal cut
$1.9980% offBANGER
- Cost per hourS
- $0.83/hr
- ReviewsS
- 95% of 19,447
- Critics
- 87 players 8 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Action
Watch this gameOne alert at $1.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 12h
- To 100%
- 21.7h 1.8x the story
- Achievements
- 37
Price and sales
- Sales
- 80 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $0.89 April 2025
- Sale every
- 52d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 66 now
- Recent reviews
- 94% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 24% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
52% start to 4% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
80 discounts in the 14 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 3 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 1 percent. It is pricier than 76 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 $14.30, and you are being asked for $9.99.
More about Psychonauts
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 679 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 80 percent of the 891 reviews written there were positive, against 95 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 24 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Played this game initially as a kid and didn't get very far with it. After nearly a 15 year gap in that time, I finally got around to playing it fully; and I gotta say, this is an amazing game. The story is really well written, gameplay (while iffy at times) is really quite good, and the humor is genuinely quite funny. The game is pretty consistent with its difficulty throughout, slowly getting harder as you go, but...
2 more reviews
psychonaut's gameplay did not age well; the platforming is janky, the controls are clunky, and the boss fights are downright bad. however, it is a game from 2005, and with this in mind, the artstyle is so incredibly unique and full of charisma that it makes up for these faults. levels are diverse and absurdly creative, the characters are all so distinctively disgusting looking in the best way possible, and the...
nobody talks about how this is genuinely one of the most quotable games of all time "I am the milkman. My milk is delicious. Special delivery today."
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 256 MB of memory, 3.8 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Psychonauts scores 92/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3830/psychonautsReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 6, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.