Psychonauts Review Summary
Last updated: 2026-09-30
- Outstanding character cast and development
- Fun and engaging gameplay
- Incredible humor throughout the game
- Controls feel clunky and janky
- 100% completion overly tedious
- Platforming is rough and clunky
Emotions
Archetypes
Hardware
Windows <8GB VRAMmixedWindows 8-11GB VRAMpositive
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 19,358
- Positive
- 18,37594.9%
- Negative
- 9835.1%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 1,390,363
- Estimated revenue
- $13,889,726
- Game price
- $10
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 302.21%
- Estimated copies lost
- 2,155
- Estimated revenue lost
- $21,528
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment Ă— Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 302.2% Avg playtime 0.8h | 302.2% Avg playtime 0.9h |
| > 2h playtime | 664.9% Avg playtime 13.2h | 1,23390.7% Avg playtime 27h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 0.3 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 4.3 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 19.2 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 4,850.2 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
1,359 total
Organic purchasers1,04476.8%
Voted up: 93%
Key activations31523.2%
Voted up: 93%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
1,358 total
First impression0-2h805.89%
Voted up: 60%
Mid game2-10h27119.9%
Voted up: 89%
Late game10-20h50437.1%
Voted up: 96%
Endgame20h+50337.0%
Voted up: 97%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
78.0%
Global baseline 92.9%
50 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 19,358 total.