MindsEye devs’ CEO blames ‘sabotage’, vows to relaunch 2025’s worst game to date

MindsEye, the worst-reviewed game of 2025 and one of the worst games of all time, failed because its studio, Build a Rocket Boy (BARB), was beset by "internal and external saboteurs," a new report claims. BARB's chief executive also wishes to relaunch the game and go on a "redemption arc."

According to a July 3 report by IGN, who spoke with developers at BARB, Leslie Benzies, the studio's head and the former president of Rockstar North, issued a video address to staff members where he claimed that MindsEye failed as a result of internal and external sabotage, "among other things." The report goes on to state that Benzies "insisted BARB would bounce back and relaunch MindsEye" at some point in time.

Staff also told IGN that the studio does actually have a strong desire for "a MindsEye redemption arc," which is as of yet questionable due to potential layoffs that IGN's sources say are looming over the studio.

MindsEye is one of the worst-reviewed games of all time, and nothing short of a No Man's Sky-level redemption arc could save it. Image via IO Interactive

The fact that Benzies reportedly believes that MindsEye was sabotaged and not an overambitious, overmarketed failure is laughable at best. It appears that rushed development, no review codes or proper playtesting, ruined the game, rather than any sinister attempt at shutting it down.

Even in the bits that do work, MindsEye is nothing more than average, offering little in the way of innovation in a genre that is as oversaturated as possible, where only GTA itself makes any sort of worthwhile strides.

At this point, given how badly the whole situation was handled, I don't think any sort of redemption arc can save the game. No Man's Sky took half a decade to pull through, while Cyberpunk 2077, even with CDPR's massive teams, needed some four whole years to become the game it was always meant to be.

MindsEye would need a decade at least, if not more, its huge employee number notwithstanding.

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