Former ‘Grand Theft Auto’ boss’ new game ‘MindsEye’ is being dragged online
MindsEye, the debut game from a celebrated Grand Theft Auto producer, has been dragged online after a disastrous launch.
As president of Rockstar North, Leslie Benzies worked on several Grand Theft Auto titles including 2013’s GTA 5. However, he left the company in 2016 and launched his new studio Build A Rocket Boy in 2018.
That studio’s debut game MindsEye was released earlier this week. “MindsEye is a narrative driven, single-player action-adventure thriller set in the near-future fictional desert city of Redrock. Featuring best-in-class cinematics, high octane driving, and explosive combat from game director, Leslie Benzies,” boasts an official description of the game.
But it hasn’t been received well, with players criticising the gameplay, the story and the amount of bugs that are present.
“I just finished MindsEye. The final 2 hours are some of the worst hours I have ever witnessed in a video game. Scripted missions where enemies literally kill themselves in front of you, mind numbing combat & absurdly cliche story moments that feel like Chat GPT generated plot events. I feel bad for the developers who worked on this, it’s not your fault. I don’t know how this product was shipped,” wrote one player on X.
Previews for Mindseye (by former Rockstar Games producer Leslie Benzies) are out and they are not looking promising at all.
A quick rundown:
– Reportedly a broken mess, filled with bugs.
– 15 hours long story
– Driving feels “stiff”
– Cut scenes look great and are well… pic.twitter.com/ZLlGR1a1Xi— Synth Potato
(@SynthPotato) May 22, 2025
“It’s like if a €4.99 pre-owned Xbox 360 game from 2008 somehow got reincarnated into the carcass of a cancelled 2025 AAA game. Shit seems soulless to an almost ethereal degree, in the sorta way I think I could get obsessed with,” said another. “The only good thing about this game are the memes,” added a third.
MindsEye costs £54.99 and currently has a “mixed” review score on Steam. It’s concurrent player peak on the platform is 3,302 with just 531 players currently online. “MindsEye is a disaster, plain and simple. While there are some good elements here, the game is a broken, unoptimized, and unfinished mess you should NOT support,” reads one review.
Earlier this week, Build A Rocket Boy’s co-CEO Mark Gerhard claimed that any negative reviews were “100 per cent financed by someone.”
“I just said that there is a concerted effort by some people that don’t want to see Leslie or Build A Rocket Boy to be successful that are making a concerted effort to trash the game and the studio. It’s pretty easy to see the bots and the repeated replies to any content that we put out,” he added on Discord. Leslie Benzies took Rockstar to court in 2016 over $150million (£110.46million) in unpaid royalties, and the case was eventually settled out of court.
In other news, horror fans are already calling Resident Evil 9 the best game of 2026.
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