MindsEye Reviews
Although it shows some early promise, MindsEye is sunk by a ridiculous story, inconsistent writing, poorly designed mission scenarios, and utterly atrocious combat.
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.
Even as a 8-10 hour campaign, MindsEye feels longer than it needs to be.
MindsEye is a stringent and relentlessly dull video game, wasting its impressive world on formulaic mission design that's both archaic and uninspired.
This expensive, oddball game from a former GTA producer commits the ultimate sin: It's boring
MindsEye isn’t a “so bad it’s good” situation. It’s just bad in a mundane, uninteresting way.
MindsEye is a baffling, busted shooter that squanders a campy sci-fi premise.
MindsEye intrigues with its cyber-noir atmospheres but stumbles on many, too many of its promises. Everywhere you look while walking through Redrock City, you see an ambitious action game that shoots for the stars but ends up crashing to the ground.
Review in Italian | Read full review
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.
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 .
Review in Italian | Read full review
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.
MindsEye is an excellent example of style over substance, a game that falls apart the moment you start playing.
MindsEye has high ambitions and a stylish setting, but the game suffers from dated mechanics, poor AI, and a non-reactive world. Despite its strong visuals, it's unfinished at nearly every level.
MindsEye is one of few games in gaming industry, we wished would have never been made...
Review in Persian | Read full review
MindsEye does not seek to compete with the giants of futuristic RPGs or reinvent cyberpunk, but it finds its place thanks to straightforward gameplay, a well-written story, and a fair length.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
MindsEye is a bafflingly bad game made worse by asking fans to simultaneously fund and make their development hell opus, Everywhere.
MindsEye isn't a total failure—it just feels like a half-finished product rushed to market under the weight of expectation and hype. If you're curious, it's best to wait for a deep sale or for Build a Rocket Boy to deliver substantial patches.
As it stands, MindsEye is a cautionary tale with star power behind the scenes that cannot carry a game that lacks polish, balance, or soul. For a game trying to explore the intersection of consciousness and technology, it's ironic that MindsEye itself feels so utterly lifeless. A mind-bending vision is lost in translation, where high-concept dreams crash into low-effort design.
Mindseye wants to be a cyberpunk thriller. It wants to challenge players with ideas about AI, control, and identity. But instead of exploring those themes with depth and care, it trades them for predictable set pieces, forgettable characters, and unremarkable gameplay. There’s a great game buried somewhere deep in Mindseye’s concept. But what shipped feels like a mid-generation Xbox 360 game, not a modern narrative-driven experience. It’s not offensive or broken beyond repair—it’s just unambitious, uninspired, and instantly forgettable.
MindsEye is the worst kind of failure, a soporific one.