Buy Psychonauts for a quid on Steam

By Ellie Gibson Published 27 January, 2010

Save a fiver on the usual asking price.

Classic Tim Schafer platformer Psychonauts is now available in the Steam Store for just one pound.

That's a saving of £4.99 on the usual price, and the kind of bargain which would send David Dickinson from six to midnight.

Released all the way back in 2005, the game charmed and enthralled us in equal measure, and had good jokes. All of which helped it to score 9/10 in Tom's review.

So if you missed out first time round, or just fancy a trip down memory lane, why not cough up a quid? Cheaper than a six-pack of Highlander crisps from the 99p shop. Almost. And definitely better value for money.

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Since joining Eurogamer in the mid 2000s, Ellie has written about subjects as diverse as the fall of Gizmondo, the rise of Hollyoaks actresses in Red Alert games and the noise a bear makes under NSFW circumstances.

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Comments (31) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • towser #1 2 years ago

    Just bought this - you'd be an idiot not to!

    ...

    Even if you already have it...

  • spliffhead #2 2 years ago

    Wow, if you have never tried this it's a masterpiece.

  • bad09 #3 2 years ago

    Never played this but a quid is worth a punt, gotta love Steam. Shames it's not ME2 for a quid tho...

    / hugs steam then weeps he's gotta wait for ME2

  • Sunyavadin #4 2 years ago

    See, that's more bloody well like it!
    Don't like that people are selling your older games on? SELL THEM FOR THE £1-4 PRICE RANGE THEY GO FOR SECOND HAND.

    Common sense, really.
    I only have Steam installed for DoWII (Used to use it for Half Life 2 but ditched that years ago the moment I got a cracked copy) but even I'm considering this.

  • Golgo #5 2 years ago

    I still have a sealed PS2 version, which I'm saving for my dotage to wheel out and tell all the whippersnappers about how it was better in my day.

  • Headache #6 2 years ago

    I bought this last night, I might never even get around to playing it, but at £1 hell why not?

  • Malek86 #7 2 years ago

    For a quid? You can't not buy it.

    Although I always found this game to be very over-rated. The presentation and characters are top notch, but the gameplay not so much.

  • Der_tolle_Emil #8 2 years ago

    I'm tempted but then again I'm also tempted to get this on the 360, even if it's more expensive (xbox originals). Any noteworthy differences between the two versions?

  • Roland_D11 #9 2 years ago

    As far as I know the XBox and PC-Versions are very similar. The good thing on the PC is the native support of resolutions up to 1920x1200 (even 16:9 resolutions up to 1080p are supported). And the keyboard/mouse support is quite good, but it is of course better with a gamepad.

  • bad09 #10 2 years ago

    On the forums I read with a little configuring the Windows/360 controller works fine on the Steam version.

  • Kami #11 2 years ago

    Okay, anyone who does not have this game you now have absolutely no excuse.

    It may have been a tad overrated, but it was still a damned fine game that deserved so much more...

  • Kikizosan #12 2 years ago

    "Any noteworthy differences between the two versions?"

    Is the price difference not noteworthy enough? :p

  • oceanclub #13 2 years ago

    "On the forums I read with a little configuring the Windows/360 controller works fine on the Steam version. "

    Actually, works fine out of the box, except for 2 rarely-used actions. Supposely you use XPadder to map the two trigger buttons to these though.

  • Malek86 #14 2 years ago

    "Any noteworthy differences between the two versions? "

    I can tell you right away that the Xbox version doesn't work with VGA, and it has some graphical emulation problems too.

  • bad09 #15 2 years ago

    @ oceanclub

    Gotta love XPadder, I use Pinnacle myself. Actually that's the one plus side on me waiting for ME2, someone else can make the profile for me! :)

    / glares at Bioware

  • Sunyavadin #16 2 years ago

    A thought for those comparing the Steam price for the PC version to the XBox originals price on 360:

    If MS made all the XBox originals cost this much, what are the odds they'd make more money in a week than the XBox originals store has made since day one?

  • General_Zod #17 2 years ago

    To be honest I will never probably play this but when it is priced like that I will never pass it up. All developers need to do is release games on Steam priced at £1-3 and I will buy them if I have the slightest interest in them. Problem is I dont play games that much anymore but my Steam list just keeps getting bigger :(

  • kinky_mong #18 2 years ago

    Really tempted by this but not sure if my ancient computer will run it.

    Can anyone else inform someone naive in the ways of Steam, if I download this and it doesn't work can I re-download it at a later date on a different computer without being charged again?

  • Bremenacht #19 2 years ago

    Yeah, Steam seems to be tapping into a rich vein of people who'd never buy games at the usual 'discount' prices, but cannot resist when discounted to these sort of levels. I might not ever play the damn thing, given my virtual pile of stuff to play, but at £1 I had to buy it just in case.

    I do wonder why the likes of Game and other real stores haven't picked up on this, given how successful it's been for Steam. Offer a pile of the usual 3 for £15 games for £1 each (or whatever) for a limited period and watch interest flare. It'd get more people in-store, for sure - it may even tempt them into buying a full-price game while they're there.

  • Bremenacht #20 2 years ago

    kinky_mong - yes. You just logon to steam on the same account.

  • Toothball #21 2 years ago

    Oh my. I picked this up on old Xbox ages ago for like £6, but this means I don't have to dig that out of storage to play. And it's difficult not to buy any game for £1.

  • andromeda #22 2 years ago

    brilliant, brilliant game

  • HenryFitz #23 2 years ago

    This is just another example of Steam's discriminatory pricing in the rest of the EU. In my country, this game costs €2. €2! What a rip-off. £1 != €2, Valve, you pile of unrepentant price-gouging villains. I'm so mad, I think I'll start a protest group on the internet. Who's with me?

  • ignatiusjreilly #24 2 years ago

    Offer a pile of the usual 3 for £15 games for £1 each (or whatever) for a limited period and watch interest flare. It'd get more people in-store, for sure - it may even tempt them into buying a full-price game while they're there.

    Trouble is, games take a up a lot of space in the stockroom and someone has to sticker them all up and maybe remove all the discs. Once you add up that effort, selling at £1 becomes hardly worth it, except if it works as a loss leader.

  • actionfitz #25 2 years ago

    "the kind of bargain which would send David Dickinson from six to midnight."

    hehehe +1

  • comedian #26 2 years ago

    I bloody love Psychonauts.

  • Roland_D11 #27 2 years ago

    @HenryFitz

    I will be with you. Will we be the kind of group that makes a lot of noise and buy the game anyway? They are my favourite ;-)
    Edited by 1 at 27/01/10 @ 12:49

  • endintears #28 2 years ago

    I have only the slightest interest in playing this but for some reason the £1 price tag compelled me to buy it

  • Rubarack #29 2 years ago

    Hmm, £1 for a great game I probably won't have time to play that's free on Gametap anyway. Probably worth it just to stop hurting my head over which is worth less.

  • HenryFitz #30 2 years ago

    Roland_D11,

    Of course we will. Why should we punish ourselves by not buying the game when it's clearly their fault for pricing it too high? No, that wouldn't do at all. What I want is reparation. With the 85c or so Steam are overcharging me for this item, I could have bought a chocolate snack of some description. So I won't rest until Valve fly me over to their HQ and Gabe Newell gives me a bar of chocolate from his personal stash. With all the profit he's making from this pricing chicanery, I'm sure he has loads of them.
    Edited by 1 at 27/01/10 @ 14:27

  • Merlinho #31 2 years ago

    I had this on PS2, played it a few levels through, and then my PS2 blew up, so never played it through. I've now paid my pound, and got it installing on my work laptop...a few sneaky goes at lunchtime me thinks!