Psychonauts is an adventure-style platform game. In Psychonauts, the player controls Raz (Razputin), a mysterious newcomer to a psychonaut boot camp, mind-reading X-Men who use their superpowers to fight psi-terrorists. During his training, he discovers that Scout Oleander is kidnapping cadets in order to capture their brains. Raz should be able to prevent him from creating a psi-weapon with their help, thereby saving the world.