MindsEye Dev 'Heartbroken' Amid Troubled Launch as Players Report Success With Refunds and Sponsored Streams Are Canceled Last Minute

MindsEye’s troubled motorboat has continued with reports that the developer is canceling sponsored streams past minute, and immoderate players are securing refunds. The developer has present issued a statement, saying it is "heartbroken" implicit the game's difficulties.

Build A Rocket Boy’s debut rubric came retired connected June 10 crossed PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and S, and PC via Steam. On Valve’s platform, it presently has a ‘mixed’ idiosyncratic reappraisal rating, with astir of the complaints revolving astir show issues, bugs and glitches, breached AI, and crippled crashes.

Some players person reported gaining refunds — adjacent from the notoriously stubborn Sony — rekindling memories of Cyberpunk 2077’s disastrous motorboat backmost successful 2020. CD Projekt's crippled was yet pulled from merchantability connected the PlayStation Store, but determination is nary denotation yet that MindsEye volition endure a akin fate.

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Meanwhile, streamers are saying they received requests to postpone their sponsored MindsEye livestreams, immoderate past minute. As spotted by Kotaku's Ethan Gach, fashionable streamer CohhCarnage revealed this happened to him conscionable arsenic helium was astir to statesman a sponsored MindsEye livestream:

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“For the archetypal clip successful my streaming career, I changed my rubric for a sponsored stream, I enactment successful a illustration button, I enactment successful the command, that was astatine 8 o'clock crisp — my sponsored watercourse was expected to commencement astatine 8 — I opened up MindsEye, and arsenic it was loading, my absorption contacted maine and said, ‘The sponsor does not privation to bash this close now, they would similar to reschedule.’ And I said, ‘Oh, that’s a first.’ So the sponsor decided not to bash the sponsorship for now, and honestly, it sounds similar for MindsEye that was the close decision.”

Another streamer, DarkViperAU, couldn't adjacent marque it done their sponsored MindsEye livestream without breaking down successful tears of laughter.

Sponsored MindsEye streamer can't support it unneurotic erstwhile telling viewers wherever they tin bargain the game. pic.twitter.com/kdR3EuGims

— AmericanTruckSongs9 (@ethangach) June 11, 2025

In effect to the chaos of the past 24 hours, Build A Rocket Boy issued a connection connected its Discord, addressing MindsEye’s assemblage and the game's assorted issues.

“We are heartbroken that not each subordinate was capable to acquisition the crippled arsenic we intended,” the connection began. “Our precedence is optimizing show and stableness truthful that each player, crossed each device, tin bask an arsenic high-quality experience.

“Our teams person worked tirelessly passim the nighttime to lick galore of these issues, and we person present identified that the immense bulk of crashes were caused by a representation leak. This impacted astir 1 successful 10 of our players. We person developed a hotfix that addresses this contented (alongside different issues that our players person highlighted), which we are moving hard to deploy arsenic soon arsenic time connected PC and connected consoles erstwhile it passes certification with PlayStation and Xbox.

“We are afloat committed to ensuring each our players person a large experience, and we volition proceed to supply predominant and transparent updates. We volition bash our champion to respond to each your comments and feedback.

“Thank you for playing MindsEye. Thank you for your knowing and continued enactment – it genuinely means the satellite to us. We’re grateful and blessed to person you connected the travel with us.”

Build A Rocket Boy past outlined the hotfix docket for the coming weeks. By the extremity of June, it said, players tin expect ongoing show and stableness improvements, a rebalanced ‘hard’ trouble setting, animation fixes, and AI improvements.

It remains to beryllium seen whether Build A Rocket Boy tin crook MindsEye astir pursuing this troubled start. While Steam concurrent subordinate numbers bash not overgarment the full representation of a game's success, peculiarly single-player games, they bash supply america with an thought of a game's popularity connected Steam's platform. On Steam, MindsEye has a highest concurrent subordinate number of 3,302.

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