MindsEye’s troubled launch has continued with stories that the developer is canceling sponsored streams final minute, and some gamers are securing refunds. The developer has now issued an announcement, saying it’s “heartbroken” over the sport’s difficulties.
Construct A Rocket Boy’s debut title got here out on June 10 throughout PlayStation 5, Xbox Sequence X and S, and PC through Steam. On Valve’s platform, it at present has a ‘combined’ consumer evaluate score, with a lot of the complaints revolving round efficiency points, bugs and glitches, damaged AI, and recreation crashes.
Some gamers have reported gaining refunds — even from the notoriously cussed Sony — rekindling reminiscences of Cyberpunk 2077’s disastrous launch again in 2020. CD Projekt’s recreation was finally pulled from sale on the PlayStation Retailer, however there is no such thing as a indication but that MindsEye will undergo an identical destiny.
PlayStation is permitting refunds for MindsEye https://t.co/zzaHbNt3ET pic.twitter.com/KclpMTwSJi
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In the meantime, streamers are saying they acquired requests to postpone their sponsored MindsEye livestreams, some final minute. As noticed by Kotaku’s Ethan Gach, in style streamer CohhCarnage revealed this occurred to him simply as he was about to start a sponsored MindsEye livestream:
MindsEye dev canceled Twitch streamer CohhCarnage’s playthrough of the sport seconds earlier than it was supposed to start out.
He stated it was the primary time that had ever occurred in his streaming profession. pic.twitter.com/KOjyQ8ml21
— AmericanTruckSongs9 (@ethangach) June 11, 2025
“For the primary time in my streaming profession, I modified my title for a sponsored stream, I put in a profile button, I put within the command, that was at eight o’clock sharp — my sponsored stream was supposed to start out at eight — I opened up MindsEye, and as it was loading, my administration contacted me and stated, ‘The sponsor doesn’t need to do that proper now, they wish to reschedule.’ And I stated, ‘Oh, that’s a primary.’ So the sponsor determined to not do the sponsorship for now, and truthfully, it appears like for MindsEye that was the suitable determination.”
One other streamer, DarkViperAU, could not even make it by way of their sponsored MindsEye livestream with out breaking down in tears of laughter.
Sponsored MindsEye streamer cannot maintain it collectively when telling viewers the place they will purchase the sport. pic.twitter.com/kdR3EuGims
— AmericanTruckSongs9 (@ethangach) June 11, 2025
In response to the chaos of the previous 24 hours, Construct A Rocket Boy issued an announcement on its Discord, addressing MindsEye’s group and the sport’s varied points.
“We’re heartbroken that not each participant was in a position to expertise the sport as we meant,” the assertion started. “Our precedence is optimizing efficiency and stability so that each participant, throughout each system, can get pleasure from an equally high-quality expertise.
“Our groups have labored tirelessly all through the evening to unravel many of those points, and we’ve got now recognized that the overwhelming majority of crashes have been attributable to a reminiscence leak. This impacted roughly 1 in 10 of our gamers. We’ve developed a hotfix that addresses this problem (alongside different points that our gamers have highlighted), which we’re working laborious to deploy as quickly as tomorrow on PC and on consoles as soon as it passes certification with PlayStation and Xbox.
“We’re totally dedicated to making sure all our gamers have a fantastic expertise, and we are going to proceed to offer frequent and clear updates. We’ll do our greatest to answer all of your feedback and suggestions.
“Thanks for taking part in MindsEye. Thanks to your understanding and continued help – it really means the world to us. We’re grateful and blessed to have you ever on the journey with us.”
Construct A Rocket Boy then outlined the hotfix schedule for the approaching weeks. By the top of June, it stated, gamers can anticipate ongoing efficiency and stability enhancements, a rebalanced ‘laborious’ problem setting, animation fixes, and AI enhancements.
It stays to be seen whether or not Construct A Rocket Boy can flip MindsEye round following this troubled begin. Whereas Steam concurrent participant numbers don’t paint the entire image of a recreation’s success, significantly single-player video games, they do present us with an thought of a recreation’s recognition on Steam’s platform. On Steam, MindsEye has a peak concurrent participant rely of three,302.
Wesley is Director, Information at IGN. Discover him on Twitter at @wyp100. You possibly can attain Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.