Game Information
Game Title: MindsEye
Platforms:
- Xbox Series X/S (Jun 10, 2025)
- PlayStation 5 (Jun 10, 2025)
- PC (Jun 10, 2025)
Trailer:
Developer: Build a Rocket Boy
Publisher: IO Interactive
Review Aggregator:
OpenCritic - 35 average - 0% recommended - 18 reviews
Critic Reviews
But Why Tho? - Mick Abrahamson - 3 / 10
For those hoping several patches could make MindsEye into a possibly well-executed game, there’s no salvaging the mess left behind in Redrock.
Cloud Dosage - Jon Scarr - 2.5 / 5
Mindseye sets up a big, cinematic experience with flashy cutscenes and a futuristic world, but it doesn’t come together. The action gets repetitive fast, the world feels empty, and technical issues are hard to ignore. There are moments that show potential, especially in the visuals and voice work. But right now, it’s not something you’ll want to stick with for long.
Digital Trends - Giovanni Colantonio - 1.5 / 5
MindsEye is a baffling, busted shooter that squanders a campy sci-fi premise.
Although it shows some early promise, MindsEye is sunk by a ridiculous story, inconsistent writing, poorly designed mission scenarios, and utterly atrocious combat.
Everyeye.it - Italian - 4.5 / 10
This is absolutely not how one should present oneself to gamers. Moving on to the sound department, the acting performances are generally good but the musical accompaniment is completely anonymous .
Game8 - Michael Gerra-Clarin - 46 / 100
Mindseye was supposed to be an ambitious entry from IO Interactive. What was delivered is a bug-filled, unoptimized, and less-than-desirable mess instead. Almost to no one’s surprise, MindsEye needed a lot more time to polish its core aspects and mechanics.
GameSpot - Richard Wakeling - 3 / 10
MindsEye is a stringent and relentlessly dull video game, wasting its impressive world on formulaic mission design that's both archaic and uninspired.
Gamer Social Club - Andrew Cooper - 4 / 10
Mindseye is a game that falters on nearly every level. It’s story is an interesting enough concept, but it seems to be in such a rush to get to the finish line that any semblance of character development or emotional attachment is completely brushed over without a thought. Pair the average story with the fact that the game runs awful on even the beefiest of rigs, has the most barebones gameplay loop in recent memory, and clocks in at a meager ten hours to complete and you have what amounts to a half-baked experience that should be avoided at all costs.
GamesRadar+ - Alan Wen - 2 / 5
Even as a 8-10 hour campaign, MindsEye feels longer than it needs to be.
GamingBolt - Rashid Sayed - 5 / 10
MindsEye is an excellent example of style over substance, a game that falls apart the moment you start playing.
IGN - Luke Reilly - 4 / 10
When its performance is stable and you’re explosively blasting your way through robots, MindsEye can masquerade as a serviceable action shooter for a few minutes at a time. Its near-future setting and driving feel also impress.
Push Square - Aaron Bayne - 3 / 10
MindsEye is a broken, boring mess of a game that has somehow been allowed out in the world. It has little glimmers of something semi-entertaining in there with its cutscenes and story, but it's bogged down by a vapid large scale map that is at odds with its aggressively linear campaign, and padded out with a dull repetitive gameplay loop that is nothing short of archaic.
Seasoned Gaming - Joseph La Russa - 6 / 10
"Despite a strong story and generally impressive performances, MindsEye is marred by baffling design choices, missing quality of life features, and a slew of technical troubles."
Smash Jump - Ben Newton - 6 / 10
In its current state MindsEye certainly isn’t anything special, but if you are willing to take a risk on something that has a solid foundation, oodles of potential but might just end up leave you a little dissatisfied with the final result, MindsEye is worth a try – but maybe wait until its performance is ironed out.
TechRaptor - Samuel Guglielmo - 2.5 / 10
MindsEye is a disaster in every sense of the word, and is going to do little more than become a guide in everything you should avoid in game design.
The Beta Network - Anthony Culinas - 4 / 10
MindsEye fails with buggy missions, disastrous frame rates and some of the worst AI we’ve seen in modern gaming. You’ll find the odd spark here and there that’s enjoyable, but you shouldn’t have to trudge through layers of cookie-cutter content to be entertained.
Total Gaming Network - Shawn Zipay - 1 / 5
Outside of a very few semi-positive points I think MindsEye just fucking sucks. It's buggy, it's boring, the story is bad, the gameplay is bad, and it runs like garbage. Don't play it. Don't support a studio that is now having their team work "around the clock" to fix a myriad of issues that should have never made it to release. Don't buy it now nor even when it inevitably gets a deep discount.
WayTooManyGames - Leonardo Faria - 3.5 / 10
I have no idea what happened for MindsEye to come out at such a pitiful state, but even if it worked as intended, it would have been, at best, a truly mediocre cover shooter with a subpar “what if big techs were bad” story (spoiler alert: they also are in real life). But when you add in the horrendous framerate, poor optimization, braindead enemy AI, and countless bugs, then there’s no way to recommend this trainwreck, even to those looking for an ironic playthrough of a crappy game.
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