MindsEye has been suffering immeasurably since being released on June 10. The third-person ‘GTA competitor’ is the debut title of Build a Rocket Boy, a new studio headed by former Rockstar legend, Leslie Benzies. The game has plummeted in the rankings due to its being wildly buggy and inherently flawed.
Now that the game has managed to receive some reviews from popular outlets, it has been aggregated on Metacritic, and the score reflects the quality of this title. At the time of writing, MindsEye had a Metascore of just 43, making it the worst-rated game to emerge in more than a year.
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MindsEye has dominated trends on social media in recent days, but only because users are sharing clips of bugs and bizarre AI behaviour in a game that was bolstered by so many ambitious promises ahead of release. As the debut title for Build a Rocket Boy, MindsEye stands to threaten the future of the studio, and the review aggregation is a clear reflection of that.
On Metacritic, MindsEye has managed to secure a critic score of 43 (Generally Unfavourable). The user score sits at a paltry 2.4 out of 10.
To put that score into perspective, the last game to score that low was Quantum Error, a terrible title from TeamKill Media released in November 2023. It picked up a Metascore of 40 and was slated by users everywhere.
In May 2023, Daedalic Entertainment released The Lord of the Rings: Gollum, one of the worst-rated games we’ve ever seen. It became a laughingstock of a title at launch and caused the studio to reconsider its future in the development space after a Metascore of just 33 was produced.
That’s the impact that negative reviews can have on a studio, but a recent roadmap revealed by Build a Rocket Boy for MindsEye shows that the team is at least determined to try rescuing the game.
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