10 Recent Video Games That Have Already Been Forgotten

MindsEye is an action-adventure game that feels like it pretty much came out of nowhere, though it received a substantial marketing push in the weeks leading up to its release.

Given that it was directed by Grand Theft Auto producer Leslie Benzies and the trailers did look somewhat interesting, it at least seemed like a game that would linger around in the gaming consciousness for a while, good or bad.

But MindsEye was a true flash flash-in-a-pan game - one which barely anyone knew about a month before release, before it was widely panned by critics and players alike, and then vanished as if it never even existed.

Indeed, critics weren't given review copies of MindsEye, the CLO and CFO of developer Build a Rocket Boy left the company a week before release, and the devs tried to stop people streaming the game on the day it was released - some pretty epic red flags there.

So it surprised nobody that MindsEye released feeling blatantly unfinished, and even when the game did work, it was a mostly generic rehash of better games we've all played before.

Amid scathing reviews, MindsEye peaked with roughly 3,300 concurrents on Steam, yet that number dropped by 90% just six days after launch, while reports emerged of players en masse seeking refunds. 

The game's poor reception and commercial failure ultimately led to dire straits at Build a Rocket Boy, with employees receiving "at risk of redundancy" notices, all while MindsEye itself slid into the cultural ether and was quickly forgotten.