Although MindsEye only released five months ago, it somehow feels like a century since it burst forward from the starting line, smacked its head off the first hurdle and was driven away comatose in an ambulance that then exploded. Build A Rocket Boy's third-person action adventure/reconstituted metaverse was plainly unfinished when it stumbled onto Steam, beleaguered by a preposterous story, tedious missions, terrible combat, and extensive technical issues.
MindsEye was thoroughly unpleasant to play, panned by players and critics alike (including myself, to be fully transparent). The fallout from its failure was even less savoury, with Build A Rocket Boy's boss Leslie Benzies reportedly blaming the game's failure on 'saboteurs', before the studio laid off more than a hundred employees. Some of those axed designers then accused Build A Rocket Boy of mismanagement and a total lack of direction, claiming that Benzies "never decided what game he wanted to make".
