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Psychonauts 2

2021 platform video game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 17, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Psychonauts 2 is a 2021 platform game developed by Double Fine and published by Xbox Game Studios. The game was announced at The Game Awards 2015 ceremony, and released on August 25, 2021 for PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S, and on May 24, 2022 for Linux and macOS.

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“Psychonauts 2” enters the record as 2021 platform video game. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Psychonauts, platform and video can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021, 2015, 2022—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Psychonauts, platform and video.
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“Psychonauts 2” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Psychonauts, platform and video provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 17, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2021, 2015 and 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “Psychonauts 2” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.