Metacritic has revealed the worst-scoring games of 2025, and sitting at number one is MindsEye, a game that arrived wrapped in promises of revamping how open worlds work and instead crashed headlong into its own hype.
Built by Build A Rocket Boy and led by Leslie Benzies, formerly of Grand Theft Auto fame, it was positioned as the start of something big: a new studio, a new universe, a confident swing at cinematic action on a blockbuster scale. What followed was something else entirely. Critics struggled with its lack of cohesion, uneven mechanics, and technical issues that marred any innovation. The gulf between intention and execution proved impossible to ignore.
