MindsEye has been an unprecedented disaster. Build a Rocket Boy's debut game, helmed by former Grand Theft Auto producer Leslie Benzies, launched laden with technical issues, becoming the worst-reviewed game of 2025, and struggling to hit more than 250 concurrent players on its launch weekend. The cancellation of sponsored streams came next, as did a huge influx of refunds on both Steam and the PlayStation store.
What followed was, perhaps unsurprisingly, hundreds of layoffs, and more recently, the threat of legal action from those laid off, who claim they feel "used and discarded" by company leaders who have "chosen not to take responsibility for [MindsEye's] failure".
This failure has now been detailed in greater terms, with a new report by the BBC suggesting that Benzies “never decided what game he wanted to make.”
The BBC spoke to several current and former Build a Rocket Boy employees who paint a dire picture of the development of MindsEye.
One former employee felt the studio had "something quite special" when it began work on a multiplayer RPG set in a futuristic city, but things changed when development shifted to MindsEye. "Leslie never decided what game he wanted to make," they told the...
