10 Gaming Flops Much Better Than Their Reputations

10. Psychonauts

If you have ever wondered what you would get if you mixed Palaces from Persona 5 with the aesthetic of a Laika film and dialogue fitting of a Mighty Boosh episode, playing Psychonauts would give you a very close look at this reality.

Psychonauts' plot is fantastical and marvellous, so much so that this whole segment could easily be taken up just trying to explain the whole premise. This is paired with incredibly tight 3D platforming where each level looks and feels unique from the last. Psychonauts was a critical success as well, but the problem was the average punter just didn't care.

By 2005, the 3D platformer was a genre was on the decline. Gone were the lofty days of the late 90s where Spyro and Crash reigned supreme. Video game hardware and players were starting to look for the next big thing. Psychonauts was an amazing game that was treated with apathy over newer and more exciting titles like Devil May Cry 3 and Resident Evil 4.

Psychonauts sold fewer than 100,000 units in its first quarter and was chalked off as a failure. Though over time the game would gain cult-like notoriety, this didn't help developer Double Fine recoup the $18 million lost on this production. Let's hope the sequel, announced in 2018, will give the franchise the recognition it deserves.