Video game tech experts Digital Foundry have called MindsEye "abject" in a new analysis of the year's worst game, with mention of a 30 frames-per-second cap on both a base PS5 and even the enhanced PS5 Pro.
The outlet finds absolutely no graphical modes to choose from, and even the 30fps cap the title ships with isn't something MindsEye can reliably meet. On base PS5, the resolution finds itself somewhere between 972p and 1,008p, while the PS5 Pro can at least boost it to 1296p.
"This jump in image clarity is really the full extent of the PS5 Pro upgrades though, as most other settings — shadows, textures and world draw — appear similar to base PS5. Sony's PSSR upscaler is not in sight either, with PS5 Pro using the same upscaling solution as other consoles."

While the framerate in MindsEye can go above 30 on PC, it's not going anywhere beyond that on consoles. "A large chunk of the game including combat missions and interior areas technically run at the 30fps line, but the overwhelming problem is that frame pacing is much too inconsistent all round," said Digital Foundry. "Taking PS5 Pro for example, the frame-time graph trills between 16, 33 and 50ms constantly in the big city, meaning it rarely feels smooth in practice."
Driving around the streets of the world is said to feel "choppy", while on-rails shooting sections can drop below 20fps — even on PS5 Pro. Digital Foundry believes the game is encountering a CPU bottleneck, and that's running on the latest 1.07 patch.
The analysis lines up with our own MindsEye PS5 review, where we called it an "unfinished product". With a final score of 3/10, we concluded: "MindsEye is a broken, boring mess of a game that has somehow been allowed out in the world."
[source eurogamer.net]
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So, how long till this studio collapses into a black hole of bankruptcy? I’m guessing two months, tops.
Note that I’m not rooting for this to happen. It just seems inevitable at this point, given the hard failure.
It is more than obvious that Digital Foundry were paid to trash the title and they didn't even bother to download the day 1 patch.
Watch in a few years when it's remastered for PS6 Mindeyes becomes everyone favorite game.
@Czar_Khastik they secretly work for Rockdtar.
Because Rockstar really cares what anyone else does and istlnt just focused on their own multi billion dollar game franchises which will sell whatever other games come out.
Honestly sad to see Digital Foundry taking the millions of dollars to trash this masterpiece. See 30fps with uneven frametime is actually preferable to a "stable" 60 fps. Because with uneven framepacing you'll never know when the stutters happen, which brings an air of excitement about. It'll have you on the edge of your seat not knowing whether it's lagging or freezing or maybe it even crashes! What fun! But of course Digital Foundry never found the genius of this technical marvel.....
The only bottleneck here is the dev team / publisher.
We get it the game is s... lets move on and focus on the upcoming games this company doesn't deserve half of our time
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@Woods-PS Take a deep, deep breath and re-read their name...
@Woods-PS You taking his comment seriously is as funny as his comment 😁 although if someone was saying that for real I think they they should be in a straight jacket.
@MrPeanutbutterz Even without the name you’d think the comment was clear in intent…
@LiamCroft an "abject" what?... now you've got me curious.
@Oz_Who_Dat_Dare An "abject game". It's like right there in the title.
@IamJT You'd think for a form of communication that was originally (and still is massively) all text-based that people using it would have a modicum of reading comprehension, but sadly here we are on the internet in 2025.
I'm always bewildered when a game releases in such a state. Everyone on the team knows in what shape the game is. Releasing it in such a state is almost a guaranteed flop. It's like they WANTED this thing to flop and loose all their money and years of investment. Not to mention their reputation.
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@Czar_Khastik damn and I thought you were always serious. I always take your comments as verbatim and now I'm a broken mess to find out that all this time you were being czar_khastik 😢
@MrPeanutbutterz "an abject game." But is it an abject peach of a game? An abject steaming 💩 of a game? So many different permutations could be used instead of just saying "abject game" which makes it quite subjective. Who cares really as by all accounts the games pretty bad.
@Northern_munkey They're going for worst of the worst, lowest of the low, zero redeeming features, therefore it's an abject game.
@MrPeanutbutterz I guess just saying"abject game" leaves it open to interpretation then.
@Northern_munkey I think folks are misunderstanding how the word abject can be used. It basically means extreme failure.
@MrPeanutbutterz Abject is used as a negative intensifier, but it doesn’t mean failure, “abject failure” means extreme failure.
@MrPeanutbutterz yes I see. The word can be used on its own to describe something. I was just taught that it is usually followed by another word such as failure,poverty,shambles etc. I wasn't being pedantic or argumentative I was genuinely confused. Now I know 👍
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Does that day 1 patch add a 60 FPS performance mode, 😂
@dskatter what a negative comment. The game should've never released in this state, but I hope they are able to fix it. That's a ton of devs staying employed in a terrible industry, hopefully it's the execs learning how to not do this in the future, and of course maybe we can all get a great game.
Too many gamers are just so, so negative. There's a lot of deserved criticism but there are real people at that studio who are trying to do a job and stay employed.
@Northern_munkey Yeah to be fair that's how it's usually used, and its use in the article isn't how you typically see it.
Hope you're having a good weekend.
@MrPeanutbutterz yeah allls good. I'm in the beer garden about 7 pints of guiness in..no rallying for me this evening 🤣
It still blows my mind how IOI allowed this to be released. I know they were just publishing it but cmon. They need some QC whether they make the game or publish it.
@ItsAlwaysSunnyyy You’re right, I should be more positive about a game released in a crappy state when the devs declared that any bad word of mouth was part of a negativity campaign and they were too afraid to let reviewers review the game before release.
I feel so guilty and intolerant. I forgot that just because real people were involved (and not fake people somehow?) I should be more forgiving of a hack job. Sorry about that!
Btw, I did say I was specifically NOT rooting for the bankruptcy. Just that it seems rather inevitable. I doubt this will be another No Man’s Sky or Cyberpunk to rise from the ashes.
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