MindsEye Dev Says It's 'Working Around the Clock' to Improve Performance Amid 'Mixed' Steam User Reviews

The developer of MindsEye has said it’s moving to amended the game’s show aft a fig of players took to Steam idiosyncratic reviews to complain.

Build A Rocket Boy’s debut rubric launched connected June 10 and has settled connected a ‘mixed’ idiosyncratic reappraisal standing connected Steam, wherever it besides deed a highest concurrent subordinate number of 3,302. Many of the antagonistic reviews absorption connected MindsEye’s show problems, which look to beryllium hitting PC gamers hard. There are besides reports connected assorted bugs, glitches, and NPC behaviour oddities.

My 2nd combat brushwood successful #MindsEye... The AI has go self-aware and is present committing suicide: pic.twitter.com/391R23S0Oa

— Jesse Gomez @ IGN (@ItsJesseGomez) June 10, 2025

In response, Build A Rocket Boy issued a connection connected the MindsEye subreddit, saying its engineering squad is “working astir the clock” to amended performance. Patch 3 volition beryllium revealed soon, it added.

Here’s the connection successful full:

Thank you kindly to each of you who joined america arsenic pioneers connected time one! We recognize that the existent minimum spec requirements are precise high, but our engineering squad are moving astir the timepiece to amended show connected mainstream hardware arsenic good arsenic consoles by integrating the show improvements successful Unreal Engine V5.6. We volition supply spot 3 update timing, including these improvements, wrong the adjacent 24 hours. In summation to the main campaign, we would besides worth your thoughts connected Build.Mindseye.

MindsEye, led by erstwhile Rockstar North main Leslie Benzies, has endured a tumultuous run-up to release. Last week, Build A Rocket Boy said fans should hold for MindsEye’s authoritative motorboat alternatively than play it earlier its thoroughfare date, aft aboriginal copies made their mode into the hands of players.

"We privation everyone to acquisition the communicative the aforesaid mode astatine the aforesaid clip connected time one, without bias," Build A Rocket Boy said successful a connection issued successful effect to aboriginal copies being played. "This means waiting until the authoritative merchandise day to play done the crippled firsthand."

Mention of bias successful the studio's connection sparked speculation that the institution was referring backmost to comments made by its co-CEO Mark Gerhard, who suggested determination had been a "concerted effort" to "trash the crippled and the studio" with antagonistic societal media posts from paid accounts oregon bots.

IGN subsequently enactment this assertion to Hakan Abrak, brag of Hitman developer IO Interactive, the institution which is publishing MindsEye. His response: "I don't know. I don't judge that. I don't judge that. I conscionable deliberation the crippled should talk for itself connected June the 10th."

Physical copies of MindsEye besides needed a “major” update for “key improvements to guarantee MindsEye plays arsenic we intended and to conscionable each the characters astatine their best.”

And conscionable days earlier MindsEye’s launch, Build a Rocket Boy’s Chief Legal Officer and Chief Financial Officer confirmed they had near the company, sparking interest from the studio’s fledgling community.

Steam concurrents bash not archer the full story, of course. MindsEye launched connected PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X and S arsenic good arsenic PC, truthful its existent concurrent subordinate number volition beryllium higher than that reported connected Valve’s platform.

MindsEye carries a $59.99 terms tag. At launch, determination is simply a “tightly crafted linear communicative campaign,” and what’s called “single-player escaped roam,” but determination are besides a fig of missions: a horde mode ngo called “Destruction Site Shootout,” and 2 combat missions (“Honor Amongst Thieves” and “Friendly Fire”). Also astatine motorboat are six races, six checkpoint races, and 3 drone races. If you get the premium pass, you get an other horde mode ngo and an exotic cosmetics pack.

Following launch, Build A Rocket Boy said it volition present a “constant stream” of caller premium contented monthly, “ensuring MindsEye is simply a living, ever-expanding subordinate experience.” This includes caller missions, challenges, and crippled assets. “The continuous watercourse of studio-developed content, combined with the precise champion of the community’s ain beauteous creations, means that MindsEye volition proceed to astonishment and delight its players for decades to come,” Build A Rocket Boy added.

Build A Rocket Boy besides confirmed its 2025 roadmap of content. In the summertime determination volition beryllium assemblage updates, caller missions, successful the autumn caller single-player modes, multiplayer, and caller missions, and successful the wintertime escaped roam updates and caller missions. Premium walk owners get other missions and caller packs throughout.

Wesley is Director, News astatine IGN. Find him connected Twitter astatine @wyp100. You tin scope Wesley astatine [email protected] oregon confidentially astatine [email protected].