The 20 Worst Games Of 2025

Hailed as the futuristic answer to Grand Theft Auto, and a gem to at least tide us over until VI, if not to usurp it altogether. Such lofty expectations were, of course, never going to be matched, and this is some of the reason why MindsEye has been dragged through the mud this year. But it’s also just not an amazing game.

The third-person action-adventurer lets us become Jacob Diaz, a former soldier with amnesia (honestly, which game character doesn’t have amnesia these days), a MindsEye neural implant, and two missions in the desert city Redrock (a kind of fictional Vegas): 1) to take care of rogue AI robots plaguing the place, and 2) to discover precisely what his deal is.

The aesthetics and gameplay do somewhat call to mind GTA, thanks to the input of ex-Rockstar dev Leslie Benzies, but while Rockstar are generally only interested in putting their games out once they’re thoroughly thoroughly polished, this one seems to have come off the line half-finished. It’s messy, it’s buggy, and there’s just not nearly enough to do in the pseudo-open world environment, leaving players feeling like ghosts in the machine.