10 Overlooked Video Games We All Know Are True Classics

Who doesn’t like a Tim Schafer game? Storytelling and humour are held in high regard by a number of gamers, but have you ever played Psychonauts?

Released by Schafer’s own company Double Fine in 2005, this game has an odd art style and even odder plot. You play as Raz, a young Psychic who runs away from the circus to join a summer camp. This is a place for other young people with psychic abilities, and there he uncovers a plot only he can foil.

This all sounds like a pretty basic stuff, for a video game at least, but what makes this game so unique are the characters.

See, the levels you must go through are not levels in the traditional sense, but the minds of the camp inhabitants. You must travel through the subconscious of multiple characters to solve the mystery surrounding the camp, but just like in real life, everyone’s mind is different. You could find yourself in a theatre one minute and 1950s suburbia the next.

Psychonauts sadly never sold well, at just over 100,000 units. However, the strange design and surreal humour make this a classic everyone should experience once.