"A New Era Begins" One of the Worst-Reviewed Games of 2025…

The creators of MindsEye, one of the lowest-rated games released in 2025, are still moving forward with additional content planned for release this year, along with a brand-new update that's just hit the game. Developer Build a Rocket Boy is hoping its continued efforts with MindsEye will serve as a "reset for the brand," seemingly acknowledging its past failures and looking forward to a brighter tomorrow.

Launched on June 10, 2025, MindsEye is a futuristic third-person action-adventure game that weaves a sci-fi story built around robotics, neural implants, and computer viruses, with a massive corporation at the center of it all. Despite MindsEye's cinematic approach to storytelling and relatively large pseudo-open world, it was plagued with problems at launch, with players complaining of performance issues, game-breaking bugs and crashes, and a story and gameplay set-up that many fans felt was too lacking in depth. The result stands in its reviews, with an abysmal Critics Recommend rating of only 8 percent on OpenCritic and just a 48 percent satisfaction rate among players on Steam.

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By Kyle Knight

MindsEye Devs Seek a Fresh Start in 2026

With MindsEye's bug-filled launch now nearly eight months in the past, Build a Rocket Boy has announced "a new phase of ongoing development" for the game, which includes the newly released Update 7. Available now across all platforms, the newest update's cental points of focus have been on smoothing out the flow of the game's campaign, enhancing the behaviors of ally and enemy AI, and providing players with easier-to-follow paths for its objectives. "We’ve listened, we’ve moved quickly, and we’re continuing to refine performance, fix bugs, and deliver substantial combat and gameplay improvements," Build a Rocket Boy CEO and CTO Mark Gerhard said in a prepared statement.

This start of the spiritual relaunch of MindsEye comes with a number of features intended to help out players during missions. Among the improvements in the patch notes are fixes to a variety of GPS tracking issues and general visual issues scattered throughout the campaign, as well as mission-specific changes that have been triggering failure conditions too easily. For example, friendly NPCs have been given extra health in multiple missions, which should assist players in avoiding failure without being overly reliant on babysitting them, distracting them from the main objectives at hand. Navigation around the city during missions should also be improved, as the developers have added some additional guidance blips to the map and increased the visibility distance of blips from 100m to 1000m.

MindsEye City of Redrock from aerial drone view

This particular update in the roadmap to fix Mindseye doesn't focus heavily on adding extra content, putting a greater emphasis on fixing parts of the game that have been dissatisfying to players. However, Deluxe Edition players will see the introduction of a full street circuit city-center race called the Silva E-Series, which is centered in Redrock and will allow players to compete for the top times on global leaderboards. Other improvements players can expect following the new update include an upgraded musical score and ambient sound effects during cinematics, fleshed-out blood effects, reduced motion blur, and improved animations for weapon handling and locomotion.

With MindsEye counted among the most disappointing games of 2025, Build a Rocket Boy has been assessing months' worth of player feedback and will be using what it has learned from its fans to guide the studio's vision for future game updates. Gerhard said the team's primary focus is to deliver on the vision it has always had for the game, which includes the release of additional content in "steady, meaningful progress." There's been little extensive indication of what all of this will entail, but the studio has teased that a new expansion will be arriving in the months ahead, providing players with a greater ability to explore MindsEye's world, adding in a multiplayer mode, and tacking on additional story content that will amp up the endgame of the sci-fi action-adventure game.

MindsEye Update 7 Patch Notes

Hey everyone,

Update 7 introduces a brand refresh and another step forward in overall polish, guided by player and community feedback. The team’s continuing to push improvements, and more updates are on the way. This update focuses on smoothing campaign flow, making objectives easier to follow, and continuing to refine AI behaviour. Please keep the incredible feedback coming; you are making a real difference.

For Deluxe Edition players, Update 7 also introduces the Silva E-Series, a full street circuit city-center race in Redrock, now staged as a big-event street race with grandstands, barriers, and NPC spectators. The Silva Corporation has set the stage for a technical, skill-first challenge. Put down your fastest run and secure your place on the global leaderboards.

We’ll continue pushing out regular updates and fresh content. If you run into anything, please keep reporting it through the usual channels; it helps us track and prioritize fixes more quickly.

Thanks,

The MindsEye Team

Missions & Design 

Added extra guidance blips to various missions to improve navigation throughout the campaign.

Robin Hood: Cleared the sandstorm earlier while players are still on the highway to improve visibility and addressed player feedback by adding a scannable marker to assist in finding the caravan in the trailer park.

The Mole: Improved data transfer progression while following Claudia to make the mission play fairer.

Big Rocket, Little Boy: Added new objective markers for the Install ODT and viewpoint locations on the rocket loader.

Clash of the Egos: Introduced extra cover points during the Silva segment to keep players less exposed and in the action.

Oh Lily!: Increased Morrison’s health.

The Wrong Move: Removed unfair fail condition if the player briefly faces the opposite direction at the beginning of the digging mini game.

A Vital Extraction: Increased Morrison’s health so that the mission plays fairer.

Increased NPC health in multiple missions to avoid unfair mission failures.

Audio 

Addressed player feedback in the Solitary Confinement mission by improving the social cues in the mini-game. Now provides more reinforcement to the player.

Improved ambience sound effects during cinematics.

Added missing score/music to several cinematics.

UI/UX 

For PC users, Improved the usability of the Companion Drone Controls, descending the drone is now mapped to left CTRL instead of left Shift.

Increased the visibility distance of guidance blips from 100m to 1000m.

In  A New Companion mission, added a tooltip outlining the basic controls for the Drone Control.

In the Penthouse Gamble mission, a tooltip has been added to outline how to unholster the companion drone if it is still active.

Art & Visuals

Improvements made to flesh impact and blood effects.

Reduced the default motion blur according to player feedback.

Animation 

Improvements made to the locomotion transition animations.

Further improvements to animations when holding weapons.

General

The Free Starter Pack will be removed on 4 February 2026 and will no longer be playable after that date, even if it’s already downloaded.

Bug Fixes 

AI & NPC

Fixed an issue in The Pursuit of the Orb where enemies may have appeared idle when loading in.

Fixed an issue in Ultra Terminal – Goin' Haywire where one of the enemy types failed to engage the player.

Fixed an issue where enemies would not aim or react correctly when behind cover.

Missions & Design 

Fixed various GPS tracking issues.

Fixed issues in the Man Always Burns mission, where the fail conditions could trigger too easily at the checkpoint locations. The trigger volume for the fail condition has been increased to be fairer.