MindsEye Launch Surprises Gamers By Being Even Worse Than Expected

Abstract

MindsEye launches with zero critiques, dealing with a mess of bugs and glitches.
Avid gamers on social media share damaging clips, and Steam is flooded with unhealthy critiques.
Builders stop streamers from displaying the sport on launch day, hinting at deeper points.

Whereas MindsEye is already out on consoles and PC, the truth that there are actually zero press critiques out forward of launch is a warning signal that one thing’s not proper with the motion recreation developed by former Grand Theft Auto boss Leslie Benzies.

Because it seems, the sport’s launch is a much bigger debacle than anticipated.

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MindsEye studio co-CEO mentioned it is “apparent” who’s doing it.

Avid gamers throughout social media have shared clips less-than-flattering clips of MindsEye bugging out, with one person claiming that folks ought to keep away from this recreation “AT ALL COSTS” — sure, in all caps, even.

MindsEye Launch Highlights Sport Points

Over on X (previously Twitter), content material creator Synth Potato enumerated the the reason why folks would possibly need to keep away from MindsEye:

Locked to 30FPS throughout all consoles and suffers from fixed stutter points
Messy efficiency on PC (Unreal Engine 5)
Very buggy throughout the board
Crash points for many individuals on each PC and consoles
Didn’t ship out any assessment copies and solely reward appears to be coming from sponsored creators
Terrifying face bugs and ragdolls

One other content material creator who goes by NikTek posted a video of an NPC preventing again by capturing the air and performing like an AI from the PS1 days:

The bugs, spotty AI and efficiency points did not escape the eyes of avid gamers, as over on Steam, the sport is getting bombarded with damaging critiques, with some questioning whether or not the sport was playtested earlier than launch, with one person even calling it a pile of excrement, stating, “An unfinished mess, shoved out manner too early. As a substitute of sharpening the sport, they throw cash at streamers to faux enthusiasm, whereas fully skipping the press, in all probability afraid of the inevitable backlash.”

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Benzies and his studio have determined to cost the sport at $60 attributable to immediately’s excessive price of residing (and eggs).

Additional compounding the sport’s launch day points is how the MindsEye builders tare elling streamers to not stream the sport on launch day.

Are the builders telling streamers to not share their recreation attributable to keep away from spoilers, or is it for one thing else? The truth that a developer tells content material creators to not stream their recreation at launch is a head-scratcher, no?

The rabbit gap that’s MindsEye additional deepens given executives bail on the corporate simply weeks earlier than the sport launches.

We managed to speak to the studio, and one of many questions we requested is the damaging reception it is gotten up to now. Learn the complete interview to see what they needed to say after which some.