Psychonauts 2
Fair · Action · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair 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
$59.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$11.9980% offBANGER
- Cost per hour▼
- $3.97/hr
- ReviewsS
- 96% of 14,576
- Critics
- 89 players 7 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 5% Action
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Recent reviews trending down: 87% over the last 30 days against 96% all-time.
Watch this gameOne alert at $11.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 15.1h
- To 100%
- 26.4h 1.7x the story
- Achievements
- 57
Price and sales
- Sales
- 41 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $5.99 November 2024
- Sale every
- 37d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 64 now
- Recent reviews
- 87% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 1% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
85% start to 13% 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
It has been discounted 41 times in the 5 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $19.23 BANGER line 22 times.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 5 percent. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Psychonauts ($9.99, scores 92) beats it on value, while it beats Hyperbolica ($12.99, scores 49).
More about Psychonauts 2
Players rate it 96 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 87 percent. Something recent has soured the room. 6 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2022 to November 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,368 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,077 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 499 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 4 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
An absolute artistic masterpiece. In a lot of games you realize a lot of reuaed animations and textures, ect. But wow, just wow. The art and animation team of this game really took this to a whole new level. Just like the first game. I wonder about the future of art in big budget games. And this may be one of the last games with a budget that just makes you "wow, they really made all this" its a game you should just...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Psychonauts 2 A Beautiful glimpse into the Human Mind and Passion Initial Thoughts Before I begin I would like to say that I have played Psychonauts 2 before when it first came out on the Xbox, having heard and seen playthroughs on the first game but never had personality had the experience of playing it. Then when Psychonauts 2 was announced and released for Console something continuned drawing me back to the game...
Watch Toy Story or something. "Platformer": go from point A to point B, every level is linear. You can't clear level on 100% before unlocking new skill or upgrading skill on most levels. "Comedy": Throwing rocks & bulling Raz. I really tried to listen these boring conversations, they're really bad. "Story Rich": You can't do decisions. You will hear the most boring conversations 98% of the time. I had to force...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Combining quirky missions and mysterious conspiracies, Psychonauts 2 is a platform-adventure game with cinematic style and tons of customizable psychic powers.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050, AMD Radeon RX 560, 30 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Psychonauts 2 scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/607080/psychonauts-2Reviews 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 Oct 14, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.