You can now play PS5 disaster MindsEye for free – well, sort of.
Released earlier today ahead of Christmas, the so-called Free Starter Pack is effectively an extended demo, featuring a full campaign mission and a generous side-dish of “ARCADIA missions and challenges”.
Dev Build a Rocket Boy implies on the PS Store page that this demo will be “updated regularly” with new content, just in case you feel like you’re missing out on the wonderful world of MindsEye.
Here’s the official blurb:
“Unlock the ever-expanding gameplay experience of MindsEye with free content. Dive into an action-packed mission in the campaign and preview a selection of new playable content that is delivered regularly through ARCADIA.”
MindsEye obviously started life as an open world creation engine named Everything, so we suppose the idea behind this demo is to continue to tease that.
The studio introduced ARCADIA earlier this month, which populates the game’s open world with user generated content.
It’s a concept we’ve seen explored by various games, including famously Fortnite and more recently even Genshin Impact. The difference is those titles are built on studier foundations.
As compiled by ResetEra, here’s everything you’ll get access to if you download the Free Starter Pack today:
- Robin Hood – Campaign Mission
- Garden Party – Drone Race
- Chase The Sun – Drone Race
- Honor Among Thieves
- Downtown - Goin' Haywire
- Crosstown Traffic – Checkpoint Race
- Rude Interruption
- Turbulence - Race
- Free Bird – Sky Race
- Winging It – Checkpoint Race
- Craz-Eye Taxi – Checkpoint Race
- Friendly Fire
- Cruise Control – Sky Race
- Fractured Echo – Survival Horde
- Road To Hell – Race
If you do decide to buy the full game, it’s currently discounted as part of Black Friday, but we’d encourage you to think carefully about that.
Here’s what we said in our MindsEye PS5 review:
"MindsEye is a broken, boring mess of a game that has somehow been allowed out in the world. It has little glimmers of something semi-entertaining in there with its cutscenes and story, but it’s bogged down by a vapid large scale map that is at odds with its aggressively linear campaign, and padded out with a dull repetitive gameplay loop that is nothing short of archaic."
Do you have any interest in this extended demo? Let us know in the comments section below.