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As psychic trainee Raz, leap through surreal minds, solve puzzles, and wield mental powers while investigating a conspiracy at Psychonauts HQ.
Released 24 Aug 2021
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Combining quirky missions and mysterious conspiracies, Psychonauts 2 is a platform-adventure game with cinematic style and tons of customizable psychic powers.
Developed by Double Fine Productions · Published by Double Fine Productions
Razputin “Raz” Aquato is a young psychic and trained acrobat who joins the Psychonauts, an organization of psychic spies, as an intern. At headquarters, he gets drawn into an investigation involving a missing brain and a possible mole.
Explore the minds of friends and foes, where memories and emotional struggles become strange, themed environments. Run, jump, and swing through platforming challenges, solve environmental puzzles, and fight unusual enemies.
Use psychic powers to attack, burn, levitate, connect thoughts, create a paper double, and slow time. Earn upgrades as you progress, equip pins for ability bonuses, and revisit areas to find collectibles and explore further.
In this helpfulness-selected sample, players often praise the imaginative mind-worlds, distinctive art, humorous and heartfelt writing, and smoother platforming compared with the first game. Some also enjoy exploring for collectibles and trying different psychic powers. Opinions are more divided on the story and supporting cast, while combat, switching between equipped powers, and collectible cleanup are recurring criticisms.
Razputin “Raz” Aquato, trained acrobat and powerful young psychic, has realized his lifelong dream of joining the international psychic espionage organization known as the Psychonauts! But these psychic super spies are in trouble. Their leader hasn't been the same since he was rescued from a kidnapping, and what's worse, there's a mole hiding in headquarters.
Combining quirky missions and mysterious conspiracies, Psychonauts 2 is a platform-adventure game with cinematic style and tons of customizable psychic powers. Psychonauts 2 serves up danger, excitement and laughs in equal measure as players guide Raz on a journey through the minds of friends and foes on a quest to defeat a murderous psychic villain.
Experience an imaginative, cinematic story that mixes humor and intrigue, brought to you by legendary game designer Tim Schafer (Grim Fandango, Brütal Legend, Broken Age).
Explore unique environments using Raz’s ability to dive into people’s brains to battle their inner demons, unlock hidden memories, and resolve their emotional baggage.
Leap acrobatically through the air, traversing tightropes and trapezes in a varied, challenging, and joyful platforming experience.
Wield a powerful array of psychic powers to blast, burn and levitate things, or even slow down time itself to solve environmental puzzles and battle strange enemies.
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
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| Achievements | 57 |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 4 listed on Steam |
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| Metacritic | 89/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
