CohhCarnage’s MindsEye sponsored stream got canceled just as it was about to start. The story of what could be 2025’s worst game launch keeps getting worse
Crashes everywhere, painfully low FPS, and a whole lot of other problems. MindsEye rolled out straight into chaos.
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Some game releases are so bad, they go down in history. Sure, a few manage to bounce back – MindsEye, a title from GTA veteran Leslie Benzies. Things went downhill fast, so much so that one Twitch streamer had their sponsored stream pulled right as it was about to start.
The new standard for bad game launches
MindsEye peaked at just over 3,000 concurrent players on Steam, and it looks like things didn’t go much better on other platforms either. Then again, a bigger player base probably would’ve just meant even more negative reviews. By the end of day one, the game was already drowning in them. So, no wonder they even decided to cancel a stream deal.
CohhCarnage had just gone live and was getting ready to start MindsEye (he was literally loading up the game) when he suddenly got a call from his manager. The sponsor had pulled the plug last minute, saying they didn’t want to go through with it right now and wanted to reschedule. As wild as the whole thing was, CohhCarnage just rolled with it and said:
Honestly, it sounds like for MindsEye that was the right decision.
Anyway, it all worked out, he just switched over to Dune: Awakening instead. Still, not gonna lie, watching those bugs happen live would've been very entertaining.
But goofy glitches aren’t the only thing going on here – those would’ve just turned into memes, and MindsEye might’ve even gotten some love for them. But the streams that actually happened were a whole different kind of mess. One streamer couldn’t even get into the game. It just kept crashing to desktop.
So now, MindsEye will probably forever be known as the “GTA from TEMU”, and that’s not just hater talk. The game really did launch in a disastrous technical state.
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