Granted, that’s pretty much the point of most works in most creative fields, but this is where Psychonauts 2‘s length compared to other games really becomes an attribute. You’re afforded a degree of freedom when it comes to how you choose to explore Psychonauts 2‘s story and levels, but for the most part, you’re experiencing the game roughly how its creators intended for you to experience it. Again, I really want to avoid spoilers as much as possible given that the vague idea here is to encourage people to check out Psychonauts 2 however they’re able to do so, but the thing that jumped out at me most while playing it is how nice it is to play a modern Triple-A game that feels so…deliberate. It certainly helps that Psychonauts 2 is available via Game Pass (which I imagine is how many people will end up playing it), but $60 is a lot of money to a lot of people, and you can’t really judge someone too harshly for wanting to get the most out of that money as they can. There are already some who are expressing concern over the idea of spending $59.99 on a game that can be beaten in a relatively short amount of time (at least by modern standards), and I absolutely get that. Of course, you could just enable Psychonauts 2‘s invincibility settings and shave quite a few hours off of both of those time estimates.

I’ve heard people stretch those runtimes to 15 hours and 30+ hours respectively, but I’d say that it’s safer to lean towards the shorter side of the estimates if you’re trying to figure out how much time you’ll be spending with this one. To answer that question as thoroughly as possible without diving into Psychonauts 2 spoilers, it’s going to take you about 10-12 hours to beat the game on standard settings and closer to 25 hours to 100% the game.

However, it is a little concerning that’s the first question a lot of people seem to have about this game. In an age of live service games and open-world epics that practically give you new universes to explore, it’s hardly surprising that some gamers are already wondering how long it takes to beat Psychonauts 2.

Psychonauts 2 levels