MindsEye developer Build A Rocket Boy is reportedly shutting down

It’s not terribly surprising after repeated rounds of layoffs. MindsEye developer Build A Rocket Boy is reportedly shutting down. Gaming MindsEye developer Build A Rocket Boy is reportedly shutting down Several employees have said they’re leaving the studio.

Several employees wrote on LinkedIn that their time at the studio is "coming to an end," and Kotaku reported that BARB will close its doors for good. "With a very heavy heart I raise my green banner, along with the rest of my colleagues at Build a Rocket Boy. I am ‘Open to Work’ actively looking for a new adventure," BARB’s principal talent acquisition partner Dan Hawkins wrote, implying that all of the studio’s employees are out of a job.

"I will be seeing BARB through till the very end, helping wrap things up here in the HR department." MindsEye had a disastrous debut in June 2025, with PlayStation said to have issued refunds to some players who checked out the game in its initial bug-riddled state. A round of layoffs followed soon after the Grand Theft Auto-esque game’s release while BARB founder (and former GTA producer) Leslie Benzies reportedly blamed its woes on "saboteurs" inside and outside the company. The studio released an expansion for MindsEye this spring.

It contained a mission it claimed would expose some evidence of the purported conspiracy that ruined the game’s chances for success.