Psychonauts
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Action-platformer with comedy, adventure, and singleplayer tags, Psychonauts pairs character-driven exploration with cult classic positioning. Released in 2006, it has 18,958 Steam reviews at 95% positive and is developed and published by Double Fine Productions, with an initial price of $9.99.
Overview
Psychonauts is a 2006 Action game developed by Double Fine Productions and published by Double Fine Productions. On Steam it has gathered 18,971 player reviews, 95% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $10. The pairing of developer Double Fine Productions with publisher Double Fine Productions is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 968,000 to 2.3 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Psychonauts can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
18,971
Positive
95%
Steam appid
3830
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0968K to 2.3M
units (median: 1.6M)
≈ $5.5M to $12.9M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2006 | +30 |
| price_$10 | -5 |
| positive_95% | +10 |
| final NB | 85 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Psychonauts at roughly 968,000 to 2.3 million copies, with a median around 1.6 million, derived from its 18,971 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $9.2M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $5.03Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $5.03 to $9.99, averaging $9.25 across 2 discount windows, with a historical low of $5.03 on 2026-05-24.
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Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Steam reference -80%$1.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming$9.99 Buy
- Humble Store$9.99 Buy
- GOG.com$9.99 Buy
- Fanatical -11%$10.29 Buy
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Tags
PlatformerComedyAdventureCult ClassicSingleplayerActionFunnyThird Person3D PlatformerClassicStory RichPsychologicalGreat SoundtrackSurrealCartoonyCollectathonExplorationAction-Adventure3DIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Psychonauts sold?
- indielist estimates Psychonauts has sold between 967,521 and 2,257,549 units (median 1,612,535), derived from its 18,971 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Psychonauts?
- Psychonauts was developed by Double Fine Productions and published by Double Fine Productions.
- When was Psychonauts released?
- Psychonauts was released in 2006.
- How many reviews does Psychonauts have on Steam?
- Psychonauts has 18,971 Steam reviews, of which 95% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions Psychonauts within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Double Fine Productions's other releases and Double Fine Productions's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Psychonauts sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Psychonauts page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.