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 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 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.
MindsEye is the embodiment of wasted potential—a game burdened by an identity crisis, plagued by poor launch performance, and set in a world that promises depth but delivers nothing, leaving even the most hopeful players disheartened, as no amount of patches can fix its shallow missions, monotonous gameplay, linear design, and uninspired story.
Review in Dutch | Read full review
While not the worst, MindsEye is far from being a satisfactory game. Its technical glitches and performance issues (though not severe in my case) add to its list of flaws. Its saving grace, if any, is the impressive visuals. However, these cannot make up for its shallow world, dull combat, and host of other faults. If you’re seeking quality in a game, MindsEye isn’t for you.
MindsEye had huge ambitions and a bold vision. Instead, we received a game that lacked cohesion, polish, and suffered from scattered design and limited gameplay. Despite the visual brilliance of the cinematic scenes, they don't conceal shaky technical performance and a linear style that lacks content. Ultimately, MindsEye is an incomplete experimental experience that may appeal to some fans of interactive storytelling, but will leave most disappointed.
Review in Arabic | Read full review