Motion-journey recreation MindsEye, launched on June 10, has change into the worst-reviewed recreation of 2025 up to now, but the developer is dedicated to enhancing the expertise.
As of June 15, developer Construct a Rocket Boy’s debut recreation has a Metacritic rating of 43, inserting it final amongst all titles with critic evaluations on the location launched in 2025 up to now. Launched on February 6, Ambulance Life: A Paramedic Simulator was beforehand the worst-reviewed recreation of 2025 with a critic rating of 44.
Directed by former Rockstar North president Leslie Benzies, reception to MindsEye on different platforms hasn’t fared a lot better. On Valve’s Steam, the cinematic third-individual shooter at present has a “Largely Adverse” total person rating from over 1k evaluations.
Whereas criticisms differ, prevailing complaints included efficiency and technical points, repetitive gameplay, and clunky fight.
Inside 24 hours of launch, gamers began demanding refunds, with some even claiming that the sport was scamming Steam customers.
Whereas console knowledge isn’t available, SteamDB figures don’t precisely paint a flattering image, both. On its June 10 launch, MindsEye’s participant depend peaked at 3,302 gamers, declining to a 24-hour peak of 517 5 days later.
Construct a Rocket Boy guarantees “frequent” updates
Regardless of all of this, nevertheless, it’s price mentioning that Construct a Rocket Boy has dedicated to rolling out patches for MindsEye to handle suggestions. Per the sport’s official Discord, quite a lot of patches and hotfixes have already been rolled out, with extra to return.
“We’re heartbroken that not each participant was in a position to expertise the sport as we meant. Our precedence is optimizing efficiency and stability so that each participant, throughout each system, can take pleasure in an equally excessive-high quality expertise,” the studio mentioned.
“We’re absolutely dedicated to making sure all our gamers have a terrific expertise, and we’ll proceed to supply frequent and clear updates. We’ll do our greatest to answer all of your feedback and suggestions,” the message continued.
