MindsEye Lands on Sales Chart Despite Negative Reviews

Despite the influx of negative reviews from players and critics, MindsEye appears to be selling well, at least in the UK. According to new physical sales data for last week, MindsEye is one of the best-selling games in the country. As expected, Mario Kart World and EA Sports FC 25 dominated the charts, but rather surprisingly, MindsEye managed to sell more copies than Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition, Breath of the Wild, and many more last week.

Plenty of Grand Theft Auto fans were keeping a close eye on MindsEye, mainly due to the fact that the new IP was helmed by Leslie Benzies, a former Grand Theft Auto producer and president at Rockstar Games. Unfortunately, it doesn’t appear to have met the expectations of fans, receiving largely negative reviews from both players and critics. While there are some who believe the title has potential, with excellent driving mechanics and an interesting story, MindsEye is filled with bugs, has poor optimization, and struggles to maintain 30 FPS even on the PlayStation 5 Pro. With so many issues, it seemed unlikely that the game would enter any sort of sales chart, but that is seemingly not the case.

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MindsEye Appears to Be Selling Well in the UK

Although MindsEye received mostly negative reviews from both players and critics, it still appears to be selling relatively well, at least in the UK. According to PushSquare, MindsEye was the fourth best-selling physical game in the UK last week. Rather unexpectedly, Nintendo’s highly anticipated launch of the Switch 2 sees Mario Kart World take the number one spot, followed by EA Sports FC 25 at number two and Hogwarts Legacy at number three. With MindsEye slotting itself in at the number four position, it has beaten the likes of Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and more. However, it should be worth noting that these sales are only for physical copies within the UK for the week ending June 14.

It hasn’t exactly been all sunshine and roses for Build a Rocket Boy’s first game, however, as MindsEye is now the worst-reviewed game of the year. While the studio did not provide outlets with review codes prior to the game’s release, journalists have now begun publishing their reviews for MindsEye, and it isn’t good. The action-adventure game sits at a Metacritic score of 43, making it the worst-reviewed game of the year. Sure, its score could climb ever so slightly as more reviews continue to come in, but it’s unlikely to make much of a difference and will likely remain one of the worst games of 2025.

Build a Rocket Boy has committed itself to releasing plenty of new updates for MindsEye over the coming weeks, with the first post-launch patch now live for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC. According to the official patch notes, the first MindsEye update includes memory optimizations, aims to improve CPU and GPU performance, and address memory leak issues that were causing some users to experience crashes. There are also a variety of bug fixes and a decrease in difficulty for the CPR mini-game. MindsEye players can expect even more updates to be rolled out over the coming weeks.