Psychonauts 2
Fair · Action · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
A BANGER at $19.39, only fair at $59.99.
- Length
- 15.1h
- Value
- $3.97/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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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.
Combining quirky missions and mysterious conspiracies, Psychonauts 2 is a platform-adventure game with cinematic style and tons of customizable psychic powers.
What drives the score
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Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
November 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $5.99. It has been discounted 40 times in the 5 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks. Past sales have already crossed the $19.39 BANGER line 21 times.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 4 percent on value. 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 SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake ($39.99, scores 51).
5 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2021 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 79 percent of the 491 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
85% start to 13% 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
97 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
An absolutely brilliant game! I enjoyed every single second of it! The levels are all brilliantly designed, the gameplay is great and the characters are all superb! I love the whole visual style and the music. Anyone with even the slightest interest in platformers has to give this game a go. Unlike Reddit, its actually fun here to get a glimpse into the minds of mentally deranged people. Thanks Mr Schafer Sir!
This game's art direction is absolutely jaw dropping, to an almost unprecedented level. Every level, character, object, enemy oozes with style and originality. The talent of twofine's artist screams at each frame. The gameplay is classic, the controls are good, the levels are varied and numerous. The adventure is long. However: The big flaw of this game is that IT TALKS TOO MUCH. So many cutscenes, so many dialogs...
Wow what a game. This is easily on Ratchet and Clank level, but with a lot more mature theme. You should play the first one before playing this though, as it starts right when the first one finished. I was lucky enough to have missed the first one when it came out and I just played them back to back. Awesome journey, great characters and writing. First one was a little janky and I would give it nowadays 8/10, this...
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 2 scores 64/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/607080/psychonauts-2The 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 17, price as of Sep 24.
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