This is getting brutal for the gaming community; gamers are calling it everything from “Cyberpunk 2077 again” to “a vocational school project.” The negative momentum gathered following a simple tweet by NikTekOfficial saying: “Yeah, Mindseye definitely needed a delay…,” and within minutes, the replies had turned into outright roast sessions.

For starters, the comparisons with botched launches elsewhere are cruel. Several players called it “the new Cyberpunk,” one saying, “I think I’m looking at Cyberpunk 2177.” Ouch. Others said that the radar looked like that in Battlefield and said that the game is just a mash-up between The Division and Watch Dogs (but “10 years too late”). Perhaps the cruelest delivery so far would be something akin to, “Looks like a game someone in a vocational school course for game design made as a project.” Burning.

Performance was the biggest concern, citing insane VRAM usages (“15.5GB of VRAM, you’re joking right?”), and then jumping to all sorts of other glitches. Part of the heated discussion then included some accusing other critics of being paid by Take-Two to trash the game, with others throwing back that the Cyberpunk deserved all of that bad press.

The timing couldn’t be worse. Following Rockstar’s decision to delay GTA 6 in order to give it a polish, many replies said Mindseye is exactly what proves that delays matter. “Take the time and polish everything,” another added in desperation, while another cracked, “This game didn’t release, it escaped.” Even the few defending Mindseye agreed that it has issues and that the developers need “at least another year to fix this.”

Oh, and can we talk about that whole “No review plays” situation? That one reply said it all: “If a game never sends out review copies, just know there’s no faith from the publishers.” Oops. In the wake of this, with the refund cries coming through loud and clear from the players, this is undoubtedly carving itself into a textbook on how not to do it.

The craziest thing about this has to be the fact that some ppl thought Mindseye was fake until it actually dropped down from the cloud. “I thought this game was fake, holy LOL,” one amphibious reply said, really summarizing the whole affair. The sarcastic remarks of “Game of the year babayyy” almost feel like funeral arrangements now rather than actual praise.

By now, the only consensus is that the game should have gotten delayed. Whether it was because of the janky mechanics, performance issues, or just feeling like a cheap-bin knockoff of better games, the groundswell of opinion clearly reads: it needed much more time in the oven. Saying perhaps the developers might pull a Cyberpunk and fix it later, but at this moment? Oof. Big oof.

So another messy launch again. At least this messy launch could entertain us while we wait for a polished game. Silver lining, right? Right. nervously looks for GTA 6 release date