GTA-Style Game MindsEye Has a New Gameplay Trailer, a $60 Price Point, and a Content Rollout Plan

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MindsEye developer Build A Rocket Boy has released a caller trailer for the game, confirmed its $59.99 terms tag, and revealed precisely what players tin expect from motorboat successful presumption of content.

Build A Rocket Boy, led by erstwhile Rockstar North seasoned Leslie Benzies, confirmed a June 10, 2025 merchandise day for MindsEye for PS5, Xbox Series X and S, and PC via Steam and Epic Games Store.

Here’s the authoritative blurb:

Set successful the near-futuristic metropolis of Redrock, MindsEye delivers a tightly crafted linear communicative campaign. Players volition measurement into the shoes of Jacob Diaz, a erstwhile worker haunted by fragmented memories from his mysterious MindsEye neural implant, arsenic helium uncovers a conspiracy involving rogue AI, firm greed, an unchecked military, and a menace truthful sinister that it endangers the precise endurance of humanity. The game’s communicative is brought to beingness with state-of-the-art visuals built connected Unreal Engine 5.

Perhaps much absorbing is MindsEye’s PC-only crippled instauration system, which lets players physique their ain experiences utilizing each the MindsEye assets.

The $59.99 price, the workplace said, is “a refreshing departure from the modular $70~$80 AAA terms tag.” But what, exactly, bash you get for your $60?

At launch, determination is of people the “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.

The outgo of video games is 1 of the hottest topics successful the industry, pursuing Nintendo’s leap to $80 for Mario Kart World and Microsoft’s program to deed $80 from this vacation season. Other video crippled companies are expected to follow, with the likes of Gearbox’s Borderlands 4 astatine the centre of a terms statement pursuing arguable comments from Randy Pitchford.

All the while, immoderate cheaper, mid-range games person recovered tremendous occurrence astatine the $50 terms point, including Clair Obscur: Expedition 33. 2K’s upcoming Mafia: The Old Country volition besides beryllium priced $50. MindsEye, it seems, occupies a abstraction determination in-between.

MindsEye Screenshots May 2025

So, that's launch. But what astir aft 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].

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