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Psychonauts (2005)

0.1617Canon Score · ranked #166 all time

Aggregated from 4 of 17 authoritative lists, weighted by authority and adjusted for each list's scope and age. How scoring works →

About the game

Psychonauts is a 2005 platform game developed by Double Fine Productions and published by Majesco for Microsoft Windows, Xbox, and PlayStation 2. The game follows Razputin (Raz), a young boy gifted with psychic abilities, who runs away from a circus to try to sneak into a summer camp for those with similar powers to become a "Psychonaut", a spy with psychic abilities. He finds that there is a sinister plot occurring

Why it ranks #166

Every list on which Psychonauts appears, with its position as published.

ListAuthorityPosition
Slant 100 Greatest (2020)Editorial list#34 / 100
Polygon 500 Best (2017)Critics' canon#245 / 500
1001 Video Games (2013 ed.)Critics' canonSelected
Hardcore Gaming 101 Top 200 (2020)Editorial listSelected