MindsEye Developer Unveils Significant Game Update Amid Ongoing Efforts

Despite a bizarre launch in summer 2025 that led to refunds being issued, Build A Rocket Boy isn’t throwing in the towel on its action-adventure title, MindsEye. Under the leadership of former Rockstar North head Leslie Benzies, the studio has rolled out a significant update and hinted at future expansions for the game.

The latest patch, Update 7, is now available and is touted as “a reset for the brand and the title.” This update aims to enhance the main campaign’s flow by clarifying objectives, improving AI behavior, refining drone controls for PC players, fixing bugs, and much more.

“Update 7 marks a major advancement for MindsEye and our studio,” said Mark Gerhard, CEO & CTO of Build A Rocket Boy. “We’ve listened to player feedback, acted swiftly, and are committed to ongoing performance improvements, substantial combat enhancements, and new content development. Our primary goal is to deliver the MindsEye experience we envisioned and that our players deserve.”

For those who own the Deluxe Edition, Update 7 includes a special addition: the Silva E-Series, a street-circuit racetrack in Redrock, complete with grandstands and cheering NPCs.

Build A Rocket Boy emphasizes that this is just the start for MindsEye. The studio has also announced plans for an upcoming expansion and a multiplayer mode that will be integrated into the game’s Arcadia system, which currently hosts additional content like races, challenges, and special missions.

Here are the full patch notes for Update 7:

– Added extra guidance blips to various missions to enhance navigation throughout the campaign.

– Robin Hood: Cleared the sandstorm earlier while players are still on the highway to improve visibility and added a scannable marker to help locate the caravan in the trailer park.

– The Mole: Enhanced data transfer progression while following Claudia to ensure a fairer mission experience.

– Big Rocket, Little Boy: Introduced new objective markers for the Install ODT and viewpoint locations on the rocket loader.

– Clash of the Egos: Added extra cover points during the Silva segment to keep players less exposed and engaged in the action.

– Oh Lily!: Increased Morrison’s health.

– The Wrong Move: Removed an unfair fail condition if the player briefly turns the opposite direction at the start of the digging mini-game.

– A Vital Extraction: Increased Morrison’s health for a fairer mission experience.

– Boosted NPC health in multiple missions to prevent unfair mission failures.

– Addressed player feedback in the Solitary Confinement mission by enhancing social cues in the mini-game for better reinforcement.

– Improved ambient sound effects during cinematics.

– Added missing score/music to several cinematics.

– For PC users, improved Companion Drone Controls, mapping the drone’s descent to left CTRL instead of left Shift.

– Increased the visibility distance of guidance blips from 100m to 1000m.

– In A New Companion mission, added a tooltip outlining the basic controls for the Drone Control.

– In the Penthouse Gamble mission, a tooltip has been added to explain how to unholster the companion drone if it is still active.

– Enhanced flesh impact and blood effects.

– Reduced default motion blur based on player feedback.

– Improved locomotion transition animations.

– Further refined animations when holding weapons.

– Fixed an issue in The Pursuit of the Orb where enemies may have appeared idle during loading.

– Fixed an issue in Ultra Terminal – Goin’ Haywire where one enemy type failed to engage the player.

– Resolved an issue where enemies would not aim or react correctly while behind cover.

– Fixed various GPS tracking issues.

– Fixed issues in the Man Always Burns mission, where fail conditions could trigger too easily at checkpoint locations. The trigger volume for fail conditions has been increased for fairness.

– Fixed various visual issues throughout the main campaign.

– Fixed an issue where skipping a cutscene could cause the music to cut out.

– Fixed an issue in the Settings menu where the ‘Reset Defaults’ option could become unresponsive.

– Fixed multiple environmental issues throughout Goin Haywire – Ultra Terminal.

– Fixed various environmental issues throughout Redrock.

– Fixed an issue where animations for AI entering and exiting vehicles appeared slightly out of sync.

– Fixed an issue where enemies’ weapons could be seen firing while they were reloading or aiming.