Build A Rocket Boy has quietly released a “free starter pack” to resuscitate its flailing action-adventure game, MindsEye.
The free pack, which was released yesterday (28th November), hopes to snag new players by offering a taster of the “ever-expanding gameplay experience of MindsEye”.
“Dive into an action-packed mission in the campaign and preview a selection of new playable content that is delivered regularly through ARCADIA,” the description teases.
The demo sees you play as Jacob Diaz, a former soldier with a neural implant and fractured memories, “drawn into an explosion that erupts into a high-speed chase and fierce firefight through the city”.
It features the story mission Robin Hood and access to a “variety” of ARCADIA missions and challenges, which are “updated regularly”. Here’s what’s currently on offer:
- Garden Party – Drone Race
- Chase The Sun – Drone Race
- Honor Among Thieves
- Downtown – Goin’ Haywire
- Crosstown Traffic – Checkpoint Race
- Rude Interruption
- Turbulence – Race
- Free Bird – Sky Race
- Winging It – Checkpoint Race
- Craz-Eye Taxi – Checkpoint Race
- Friendly Fire
- Cruise Control – Sky Race
- Fractured Echo – Survival Horde
- Road To Hell – Race
The free starter pack is available on Steam, PS5, and Xbox Series consoles.
Last month, MindsEye boss and Build A Rocket Boy studio founder Leslie Benzies alleged in an internal meeting that “saboteurs” within the company were behind the game’s poor reception. Shortly after confirming redundancies, he said negativity towards the game was “uncalled for” and alleged “internal and external” forces scuppered the game’s launch.
Benzies’ comments come just weeks after MindsEye developers signed an open letter against studio execs over “longstanding disrespect and mistreatment”.
That wasn’t the first time the game’s negative reaction has been blamed on others. Even before the game was released, studio co-CEO Mark Gerhard claimed in an exchange on the MindsEye Discord server that “all the people who reacted negatively were financed by someone”. He later added there was a “concerted effort” against the studio, and it “doesn’t take much to guess who”.
Publisher IO Interactive has since distanced itself from the project.
