When MindsEye launched, we didn't have any pre-launch reviews. However, the reviews were going to come in eventually, and now, there are enough to give the game an average score on Metacritic.
Right now, MindsEye has a Metacritic score of just 43, based on the six reviews that have come out so far. That's enough to make it the most poorly received game of 2025 so far, and it's unlikely that further reviews will boost the score much more than this.
Looking at the review scores for all of the 2025 game releases so far, we can see that MindsEye takes last place by one point, sitting behind Ambulance Life: A Paramedic Simulator. It's even worse on the user score front, as it currently sits on 2.5 on Metacritic and mostly negative reviews on Steam.
MindsEye is the first game from the studio Build A Rocket Boy, which was founded by former GTA producer Leslie Benzies. However, it's been clear that this would not be a smooth launch since the previews dropped, as co-CEO Mark Gerhard accused the critics of being paid off by other studios to "trash" the game. This might explain why we didn't get any pre...
