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MindsEye tops Metacritic’s worst games of 2025 list, raising hard questions for developers

The hype and nostalgia lessons the industry can’t ignore.

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You can try the worst game of 2025 for free right now – go on, you know you want to

You can play a bit of MindsEye for free thanks to a new starter pack version.

TechRadar

MindsEye developer offers a starter pack that lets you try the beleaguered action game's best mission for free, though you should imagine air-quotes the size of skyscrapers around the word 'best'

The free demo coincides with a new patch.

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Take-Two boss says 'we've never regretted' delaying a game following the Grand Theft Auto 6 pushback, says other studios might have better luck if they did the same thing once in a while

Strauss Zelnick says delays are "painful" but companies who don't postpone games that need more work do so "at their peril."

PC Gamer

MindsEye loses its free-roam mode, gains a dodge roll, and rebrands itself as 'Powered by Arcadia' whatever that means

We'll miss you, Can't Drink Dust Guy.

PC Gamer

The MindsEye fallout continues as axed staff allege crunch, mismanagement, and a total lack of direction: 'Leslie [Benzies] never decided what game he wanted to make'

"And it does mess with you. You really do start to see the morale go down, the little arguments starting to happen."

PC Gamer

GTA lead's big gamble turned worst game of 2025 contender was such a disaster that nearly 100 devs are demanding change and apologies for "unbearable levels of overtime" and "mishandled" layoffs

The fallout from MindsEye's disastrous launch continues

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MindsEye's response was so mindblowingly negative its star thought 'I might never work in another game again'

Alex Hernandez and the MindsEye team had a rough go of the game's launch.

PC Gamer

MindsEye devs drop a massive patch amid ‘relaunch’ efforts, but I feel no amount of updates will save this sinking ship

It's time we all moved on from this wreck.

Destructoid

Somehow, MindsEye is not dead: A new update promises to improve performance by removing 'ambient rubbish'

A beefy new patch went live today, and Build a Rocket Boy says another one is in the works.

PC Gamer

MindsEye's messy launch shenanigans has IO Interactive hesitant to play publisher for more games in the future: 'That remains to be seen'

IOI Partners might be a one-and-done situation.

PC Gamer

Former Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption lead's huge flop MindsEye was never "supposed to be a GTA killer," fellow Rockstar Games veteran says, and "would have gone a lot better" if it were cheaper and less buggy

Could the shooter ever have done better?

GamesRadar

MindsEye devs’ CEO blames ‘sabotage’, vows to relaunch 2025’s worst game to date

The GTA killer's creator thinks it was unjustly killed itself, but that just seems like a copout.

Destructoid

MindsEye boss reportedly blames its failure on 'saboteurs' and says a re-launch is in the works, even as the entire development studio is at risk of layoff

The weirdness continues.

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Build A Rocket Boy confirms it has begun the redundancy process following MindsEye's disastrous launch

Build A Rocket Boy has been hit with layoffs following MindsEye's disastrous launch.

PC Gamer

MindsEye's catastrophic launch to be followed by layoffs at former GTA producer's studio

The layoffs are likely to affect over 100 people.

GamesRadar

After a rocky launch, MindsEye is officially this year's worst-rated game according to Metacritic, ranking below 183 other games

Reviews have been far from positive

GamesRadar

MindsEye review: "An uninspired and forgettable sci-fi action adventure that feels like a Netflix movie you watch while on your phone"

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MindsEye dev says new performance hotfix is "the first in a series of patches," but with 40% positive reviews and just over 500 players on Steam, it would take a miracle to turn this train around

Ex-GTA dev's new action-adventure is off to a truly bleak start

The Guardian - UK

MindsEye review – a dystopian future that plays like it’s from 2012

A lot of work and ambition have gone into this strange, sometimes likable cover-shooter throwback

GamesRadar

MindsEye is getting 3 hotfixes this month to remedy its rough launch as devs explain those viral bugs "were caused by a memory leak" that "impacted roughly 1 in 10 of our players"

Build a Rocket Boy developers were apparently working "tirelessly throughout the night"

PC Gamer

'The game should speak for itself': MindsEye's publisher denies developer claims of a conspiratorial 'effort to trash' it

Never you mind.

GamesRadar

Sponsored streams for former GTA dev's new game MindsEye aren't going to plan - sponsor apparently cancels one stream and another creator actually laughs while promoting it

"The sponsor does not want to do this right now."

Tom’s Hardware

Disastrous MindsEye launch plagued by performance issues — even an RTX 5090 can't deliver 60 fps despite 19GB VRAM usage, developer working on a fix

MindsEye players are complaining of poor performance despite having hardware that exceeds the game's recommended requirements.

PC Gamer

MindsEye hotfix promised for the end of this week as Steam rating sinks back down to 'mostly negative'

A sponsored stream by CohhCarnage was also "paused" at the last minute.

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