Platform: Microsoft Xbox
Region: NTSC-U
Country: United States of America
Developer(s): Double Fine Productions, Inc.
Publishers(s): Majesco Entertainment
ReleaseDate: 2005-04-19
Players: 1
Co-op: No
Psychonauts
Psychonauts is a 2005 Xbox third-person platformer video game developed by Double Fine Productions and released by Majesco Entertainment in the USA on April 19, 2005. The story is set in Whispering Rock Psychic Summer Camp, a remote US government training facility under the guise of a children's summer camp. The area was hit centuries ago by a meteor made of psitanium (a fictional element that can grant psychic powers or strengthen existing powers), creating a huge crater. The psitanium affected the local wildlife, giving them limited psychic powers, such as bears with the ability to attack with telekinetic claws and cougars with pyrokinesis. The Native Americans of the area called psitanium "whispering rock", which they used to build arrowheads. When settlers began inhabiting the region, the psychoactive properties of the meteor slowly drove them insane. An asylum was built to house the afflicted, but within fifteen years the asylum had more residents than the town did. The government relocated the remaining inhabitants and flooded the crater to prevent further settlement, creating what is now Lake Oblongata. The asylum still stands but has fallen into disrepair.
ESRB Rating: T - Teen
Genre(s): Platform
