Psychonauts Every level is someone's mind

The hook is simple and strange: you project yourself into other people's heads, and each mind is a whole world built from whoever owns it. One head is a twisted suburban neighborhood straight out of a conspiracy theory, another turns you into a giant monster stomping through a tiny city, another is a Napoleonic war board. The minds hide their owners' memories, fears and emotional baggage, and you dig through all of it, sorting luggage and fighting mental demons along the way. Because each level is a portrait of a person, exploring one tells you who they are, and the game is happy to touch on grief, madness and fear of failure with real heart under all the jokes.

Raz is a circus-trained acrobat, and the game gives him a growing set of mental powers: levitation on a ball of thought, telekinesis, and more, each with real uses in fights and puzzles rather than one-trick gimmicks. You spend your days leaping across the camp and through minds, collecting figments of imagination as you go. Fair warning from long-time players: the platforming and camera show their age, and the final levels spike in difficulty. An optional hint system exists if you get stuck, and the powers are fun enough that most people forgive the rough corners.