Psychonauts 2 ends crowdfunding campaign with $3.8 million

The people wanted more Psychonauts, and they’re going to it.

Psychonauts 2 finished its crowdfunding campaign on Fig today. The sequel to the 2005 platformer raised $3,829,024. The goal was $3.3 million goal. Crowdfunding is only a part of developer Double Fine’s plan to raise money to make the sequel, which it estimates will cost between $10 million and $13.5 million. The rest of the funding will come from Double Fine itself and an unspecified external partner.

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Fig differs from other crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter in that it allows equity investing, which means contributors can actually earn a profit based on revenue earned by the game.

Development on Psychonauts 2 will take a while. The game won’t release until 2018. In the meantime, the PlayStation 2 version of the original is coming to the PlayStation 4 this spring, and a virtual reality Psychonauts game should hit PlayStation VR later this year.