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Mixtape
Developer Beethoven and Dinosaur
Mixtape is an adventure game developed by Beethoven & Dinosaur and published by Annapurna Interactive for Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Windows and Xbox Series X/S, released on 7 May 2026. It follows a group of teenage friends on their last day together before going their separate ways, set to a curated playlist of tracks chosen by the protagonist Stacey Rockford. Game director Johnny Galvatron drew narrative… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
511 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 4, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
59
Mixed
191 positive · 134 negative
95% range 53–64%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 191 | 134 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 44 | 11 | 108 |
| Mastodon * | 3 | 0 | 10 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 2 | 8 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
3,638 of 4,278 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
57% recommend · 160 yes, 122 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 282 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (7,657 of 8,710 positive).
Players are divided on whether Mixtape is a game or an interactive movie. [1][2][3] Many praise the soundtrack and nostalgic 90s atmosphere. [4][5][6] Some find the story and characters lacking depth. [7][8][9]
Liked
Representative posts
- [2]
I've never before written a review for a game on Steam, but holy hell this game was too bad for me to not do so. And it's especially worrisome to me seeing this game somehow launching with a 95% positive store rating, to the point where I'm convinced this must have been astroturfed in some way. Because, like: did we play the same game??? So to start, let's get something straight: Mixtape isn't a video game. There is …
- [3]
Alright so here’s my honest take The characters are super loveable, the soundtrack is amazing, and honestly the art style is one of the most beautiful I’ve seen in a while. Like visually and musically? It’s top tier. But… I’m pretty sure this isn’t even a game. It honestly feels more like a movie or a short show. There’s basically zero gameplay. You just walk. No puzzles, no choices, nothing that actually makes you …
- [15]
I was not old enough to play life is strange. I was not born to experience the 80s. I had not played a game which made feel a feeling that I had never felt before playing any video game that touched my core, and made me realise that my young adult years are running out and I have to do what I can to make most of it while it last, while being carefree and enjoying the tunes of music long past. Tonight, I played just …
- [4]
All the cushiest nostalgic vibes of Life Is Strange and Lost Records with a banging soundtrack and likeable characters. Gameplay is varied and switches up wonderfully. At one point you're hanging out in the quintessential 90s teenager den and the next you're going downhill full speed in a shopping cart. The game is a vibe of the highest caliber.
- [5]
Mixtape hit me harder than I expected. At first, it felt like a simple coming-of-age story about friends, music, and one last adventure. But as I played, it started reminding me of my own childhood — old friendships, stupid little moments, and memories I didn't realize were special until they were gone. The music and atmosphere make everything feel so nostalgic. It captures that painful feeling of growing up and …
Summarised from 34 of the 423 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 11, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
57% of the 282 Steam reviewers we collected recommend Mixtape. The complaint that keeps coming up: very little gameplay, more like a movie. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Mixtape received "generally favorable" reviews for the Nintendo Switch 2, Windows, and PlayStation 5 versions while the Xbox Series X/S version received "critical acclaim" according to the review aggregation website Metacritic. Review aggregator OpenCritic assessed that the game received "Mighty" approval, being recommended by 97% of critics. Simon Cardy of IGN gave the game a perfect score of 10/10, writing that the game "sets a new standard for coming-of-age stories in video games and does so with a masterful sense of style". The editorial team of IGN France gave the game a score of 7/10, saying Mixtape's strengths were its narrative and references to 1990s American culture as reflected…
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 511 · most liked firstFor a "game" hailed as "10/10" by a certain video game reviewer, I anticipated it would be one of the standout narrative-driven games of the year. Instead, I was met with a generic, disappointing, and humorless experience that attempted to capture the essence of those rebellious 90s moments but ultimately failed due to the cringe-worthy interactions sprinkled throughout. Music choices and visuals were nice, but that's about it. Also, given its price and the minimal amount of gameplay, you…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've never before written a review for a game on Steam, but holy hell this game was too bad for me to not do so. And it's especially worrisome to me seeing this game somehow launching with a 95% positive store rating, to the point where I'm convinced this must have been astroturfed in some way. Because, like: did we play the same game??? So to start, let's get something straight: Mixtape isn't a video game. There is no consistent gameplay formula or genre you can attach to Mixtape because at…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A blatant astroturfing slop disguised as a game. This product is simply a collection of generic clichés and cheap cutscenes with maximally half-baked minigames/animations (which have no impact on anything), and all of this without any point whatsoever. The story is mediocre at best. P.S. Bruno Simon's web portfolio is a considerably more substantial "game" than this jumble of scripted animations.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't write reviews ever but for this game I will because I cannot understand all the overwhelming reviews, this "game" is not a game, it's a film with very limited interactions here and there, I've played all the story games you can imagine, LIS has 0 resemblance to this game, it's almost offensive to compare this to the Goat, yes the game has good visuals & sound track but that's really all it has going for it, this game bored me to my grave and you can pretty much play the entire thing…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Alright so here’s my honest take The characters are super loveable, the soundtrack is amazing, and honestly the art style is one of the most beautiful I’ve seen in a while. Like visually and musically? It’s top tier. But… I’m pretty sure this isn’t even a game. It honestly feels more like a movie or a short show. There’s basically zero gameplay. You just walk. No puzzles, no choices, nothing that actually makes you feel like you’re playing something. The story is also just… normal. It’s…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Somehow this game got all the accolades that Lost Records deserved, while putting in significantly less effort. The game spends a lot of budget on soundtrack to distract from a terminal lack of compelling characterization. Everything here is surface level narcissism with absolutely nothing to say that every movie from the 80s about teenagers already said. Absolutely abysmal waste of three hours of my life.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is the biggest industry plant in gaming history, calling it an indie game is disrespectful to the genre and calling it a game in general is a massive stretch The characters are written like cardboard cutouts of what gen alpha kids think the 90's were like from movies. The soundtrack is miserable and doesn't represent the time period at all. This game is also NOT indie in any single way, it was fully funded and published by a billionaire The only thing good about this, was that it…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Killer soundtrack, great art style, moved me a little. Unfortunately for the game, I also could've spent that 20 dollars buying myself Little Caesars instead.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A Story That Goes Nowhere I was baited by the recommendations from the reviewers I trusted but after completing Mixtape, I can say it's a disappointment. Yes, the whole "mixtape" concept of telling the story with constantly specially picked music is cool, but I didn't find either the writing or the music good. Narrative and Characters I have seen stories being told way better in less time. Mixtape has a runtime of around 3 hours, but I can't say I am impressed by the story here.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Point and Click, no Adventure game. Absolutely not worth full money. Watch on youtube. The first hour feels like made by someone who thinks they grew up in the 90's. Also someone needs to check the hard drives of the person who designed that one particular scene. Game is funded and published by Oracle's founder's daughter and has the audacity to call itself indie. No wonder all the journalists are giving this 10/10. And somehow this 'indie' company had the funds to license all those tracks.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A non-game about pretentious insufferable kids ? There is little to no gameplay, which is fine for a good narrative experience, but I didn't find that here. The characters aren't likeable in the slightest in my opinion, and the story is not very engaging. There are good moments of course, but for a 3 hour - mediocre - 18€ game I find it hard to recommend, as some others have pointed out, you might as well just watch a playthrough on youtube, you will get the same experience, there is no real…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am someone who adores games that spark nostalgia, I love walking sim games and narrative games even if they don't have much gameplay, I love games with unique art styles, I love iconic soundtracks! This game was targeted directly at people like me to enjoy!!! It's a 5/10. The main character is so genuinely unlikable until the last second and I know there are parts that are meant to be taken seriously but they're hilarious when you allow me to make the main characters have seizures from rapid…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Mixtape feels like a “fake indie” game pretending to be relatable while clearly backed by industry privilege — licensed music, influencer gift boxes, and suspiciously glowing previews don’t exactly scream underground passion project. The biggest problem is how fake the nostalgia feels. The teens dress and act like modern art-school caricatures wearing curated fashion-designer outfits instead of actual ‘90s teenagers. I grew up in the ‘90s, and almost nobody acted, dressed, or talked like this.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First of all, this is not a game. I honestly don’t understand the amount of positive reviews it has. This is the first review I’ve ever written, simply because I regret spending money on this. The music is great, and the art style and animation are good, but there’s barely any gameplay. You don’t really do anything besides slowly moving from one scene to another. No real choices, no action, no adventure, nothing engaging as a player. The story feels shallow and centered around…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I just wanted to start out by saying I was excited for this game. I loved Life is Strange and Lost Records and I thought this game would be similar. Oh boy was I wrong. You have no dialogue options and you have 0 impact on the outcome of the game and the characters. Its just a movie.... A very long cutscene. I only played a bit over a hour and you might think thats not a long time but it turns out that Im actually half way through the game.... The dialogue is cringe, the main characters other…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is not a game; it’s an interactive PowerPoint presentation that even plays automatically
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First of all, it's obvious after playing the game that not one person on the dev team was a teenager in the 90's. I'm old, so I was a teenager then, and let me assure you the 90's were much, much cooler than what's presented in the game. Second, in my humble opinion, this is NOT a video game, it's an interactive movie for people who just want to see "themes" they agree with presented in this type of media. Now I'm not saying you have to be doing no-hit Dark Souls 2 runs to be a gamer, but…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →fake reviews. this is, was absolutely terrible. refunded when i noticed there was ZERO gameplay. waste of time
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sucks. Boring, This is not a game, No clue what's up with high scores
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was not old enough to play life is strange. I was not born to experience the 80s. I had not played a game which made feel a feeling that I had never felt before playing any video game that touched my core, and made me realise that my young adult years are running out and I have to do what I can to make most of it while it last, while being carefree and enjoying the tunes of music long past. Tonight, I played just that game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This "game" is absolutely NOT a 10. This "game" feels like what rich people think real friend groups act like, not to mention, the writers think that learning to tolerate the main character being a terrible person is a character arc, the "game" more like interactive movie, is littered with egocentric writing and corny lines that are a real put off. You might aswell watch this whole "game" on Youtube and you'll get the exact same experience as playing it. However, I did enjoy the soundtrack.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A bland, miserable cutscene pretending to be a game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This "thing" (cannot even call it a game) is truly an incredible achievement, I’ve never seen developers so bravely challenge the very concept of “fun” before. It’s a spiritual experience and a true reminder that life is precious and there are better things you could be doing.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This thing* joins the grand pantheon of games (see: Road 96, etc.) that are well-rated because the general public cannot distinguish between style and content. *I say "thing" because this barely counts as a game in the academic sense. There is no explicit or implied failure state, and large segments of it will play themselves for you. Seriously, put the controller down and see for yourself. The story does not branch, there are no multiple endings, and the whole thing revolves around the same…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A boring, weird walking simulator. If you're looking for an actual video game to play, skip this one. It's incredibly boring and just plain weird. The soundtrack is decent, but you spend the whole time doing random, pointless minigames and watching characters talk instead of actually playing. It feels more like an artsy interactive movie than a game. Total waste of time and money.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It was pretty boring, it was more of a movie than a game with bits of boring slowplaced gameplay in between with pretty crass humor. It was very choppy even on the lowest graphics settings.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →For a game that has it's whole selling point hinge on the narrative, the narrative was an actual nothing burger.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The characters almost seem like a parody, I didn't connect with them or anything that happened in the game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The main character is about to leave her parents’ home and move to another state to get a job as a music producer. This might sound like an interesting setup for a story, but here’s the problem: it is actually the ending. The entire rest of the plot recounts the activities that led her to this not particularly impressive decision. The storyline of those activities is about what you’d expect. Feels like a game from the Life is Strange series where they forgot to add any actual plot. (In any…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is a mixed bag and I feel its really difficult to organize why. The music choices are all good songs but none of them are reminiscent really of the story, nor the time the game takes place in. A large chunk of the music is from the 60s or the 70s which is just weird for a game in the 90s. Whoever did the character design for the main character should really rethink their choices, her clothes are probably the most unusual thing about this game, not something I ever saw anyone wearing…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This "game" is about 3 losers who don't understand that they are losers wrapped in 90s stereotypes. You're better off to listen to the soundtrack, which is the real point of the game, on YouTube than play this. This is a vanity project for Johnny Galvatron (yes, that's the director and writer's name) and his musical preferences and snobbery. Save your money. Only play this if you're going to share in its mockery.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The only discourse on Mixtape that's interesting is seeing how asymmetrical the conflict between press & influencers plays out - many influencers individually take shots at "the press" for clickbait & to solidify their own commercial relevance - while the press writes critique about the actual game.
neutral · AI labelView post →fucking fascinated at the weird reactions to new game release Mixtape because aside from the obvious and usual rage farming there is also this heavy generational element where people are bouncing off it because it depicts an era they never experienced and have no connection to
neutral · AI labelView post →Excellent, Very Nice. Now let's see Paul Allen's shoegaze. This game looks very nice, but gameplay is minimal. Very well made wrt voice acting and everything, but it beats the 1990s to death. Some parts are very cringe (Exploding things by flipping them off). The minigames, while not the point, can also be clunky and annoying sometimes. Go see a playthrough online, don't bother dropping twenty on it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's not a game, it's an interactive vibe, and it fails to even do that well.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am getting back in the swing after a very busy year (so far) that has stolen a lot of my writing time, and for some reason I played all of MIXTAPE today and then wrote 2500 words about in a flurry. I didn't care for the game, but it's beyond the music to me. ckunzelman.com/2026/05/10/o...
negative · AI labelView post →Graphics are OK, voice acting is fine. Music is good. But there's no game (no choices, no consequences and mostly not even the need to move your character).... Most of the game will play itself without you touching the controller (I got the “no crash” achievement during the shopping cart scene without ever touching the controller...). It's a dragged-out movie (the story is more fit for a TV show episode) where you sometimes need to push a few buttons (but not that often). If you want to watch a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The main issue with Mixtape is the fact that it feels like it was not developed to be a video game. It feels like it would benefit more from being a short film of some sort, and that the "gameplay" parts were just added so it could be categorized as a videogame. The gameplay sections feel like disconnected minigames during a movie, just so you have something to do (sure the devs implemented some cool new mechanics for those parts, but I just think they don’t add much to the overall…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am not gonna talk about the gameplay, the design, or whatever. I want to address two things. 1. As I was playing, I discovered I was nearly halfway done with the game, this game takes around 2 hours and 30 minutes to beat (Holy smokes!) 2. This video game came out of nowhere, the reviews are 200% bought for; one of the executives of the publishing company is the Oracle founder's daughter that absolutely bootstrapped this "indie" game with money, I put indie in quotes because this game has…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't understand what is supposed to make this game enjoyable. The story is boring, the gamesplay is inconsistat and lame, the mini-games are purpose-less and the characters are annoying. It feels like it was supposed to be a movie first, but then the creators realised the plot was not engaging enough, so they added audience involvement. The problem is that they didn't know how to turn it into a game in a way that makes it interesting. I'm so upset because I've been waiting for this game…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was going to give this a thumbs up for being a 6/10 game but the more I hear about the behind the scenes and how much "funding" this game got, this game isn't fair to all the wonderful indie creations out there that does much more memorable "coming of age/slice of life" games than this. To me, after hearing this and given how so many misses this game has, this is one of the few games that is just downright both disappointing and insulting in story, characters and heck, the era it's trying to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sometimes seeing things as a dev and not a player can ruin your perspective. For example I look at a lot of the Mixtape coverage and think ‘the game was built around the songs that could be prized from the record labels without bankrupting the project, and everything else came after’
neutral · AI labelView post →Sadly, if it wasn't Mixtape, it would be another game attracting the same ire, because the whole right-wing outrage bait economy has this boom/bust cycle that you can't help see the pattern: Game they like does well? "we're so back!" Game they don't like does well? "it's so over..."
neutral · AI labelView post →Refunded -- Do not recommend. Not even a game, this is a visual novel with a few extra bells and whistles giving you bare minimum "interactivity." Save your money and reminisce with a photo album or just call your friends.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Mixtape was a really sweet game. Very good at telling its story through presentation and some of the craziest visuals I've seen on Switch 2. Made me sad not to be a teenager anymore and miss all my friends Go online and everyone's obsessively negative about it
positive · AI labelView post →Mixtape | Reviews 10 - IGN 10 - VGC 10 - CGM 10 - DayOne 10 - WellPlayed 10 - Xbox Tavern 10 - TheSixthAxis 10 - GamingTrend 10 - DualShockers 9 - PSLS 9 - Retcon 9 - Gamespot 9 - Push Square 9 - MonsterVine 9 - Nintendo Life 9 - GameReactor 9 - Game Informer 9 - Console Creatures MC: 88 OC: 94
neutral · AI labelView post →biggest industry plant in the past decade. game made by game journalists for game journalists
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A short nostalgia bait story with cringy writing funded by the australian government. While some segments are fun it doesnt feel like a game but more like a netflix original interactive story.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I saw this on Twitter. People were complaining about it and arguing that it was not even a game, so naturally I closed Twitter for a whole day, played it myself and decided to form my own opinion. Mixtape is unique, but not in a positive way. Mixtape is a game that suffers... from being a game. That's right, Mixtape is the type of media that should not be considered a game. There are sequences where you don't need to press a button for minutes. Depending on it, I would even dare to say for…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I personally hated it, but even if you are interested there's no point in buying this. There's genuinely so little actual gameplay you could just watch the whole thing on youtube and get the full experience for free.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →All the cushiest nostalgic vibes of Life Is Strange and Lost Records with a banging soundtrack and likeable characters. Gameplay is varied and switches up wonderfully. At one point you're hanging out in the quintessential 90s teenager den and the next you're going downhill full speed in a shopping cart. The game is a vibe of the highest caliber.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →3.5/10 i hope devs read this as criticism (that can be harsh im sorry but i was a bit disappointed) and pls do better for next game because yall have so much potential Game play: 5/10 (i did enjoy all the silly running and skating) Plot: 2/10 (had so much potential but execution was bad) Characters / character arcs: 1/10 Art: 10/10 Music: 9/10 I initially was so excited for this game but then it was a let down and very disappointing. Maybe this game either was not made for me or had a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Contrary to popular belief, it’s not a walking sim - it’s even more restrictive, more like an “on rails” experience. For my personal taste, I find this level of intractability too limited to satisfy me. Especially since many of the “interactible” moments (like the great kissing scene) have little or nothing to do with the main story. The game just doesn’t seem well orchestrated overall - someone made a cool tech, so they decided to shoehorn it in whenever it works for the plot or not, it relies…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game the the epitome of “only 90s kids will remember SpongeBob” while not even knowing the difference between 80s nostalgia and 90s nostalgia
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Do you know these pop-up books for children, where a dog pops out of the page, once you open it, and with a little paper lever you can wiggle its tail? This game is pretty much like that. It tells a story, the player can move. a character left and right or trigger animations, but the player can not affect anything. I'm not even sure if I can call this a game, because it rather is a toy. I've seen this compared to "Life is Strange" a lot, but I think that's not a very fair comparison. In "Life…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've had really good experiences with walking sim games and have no problems with the genre as a whole, but man the writing is just annoying. Maybe it gets better like 90 minutes in but after the first half hour of no real narrative hook and the main character doing le epic reddit voice at me I had to turn it off.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TL;DR: This game is not like Life is Strange. The characters, story, gameplay all suck ass. Refunded this game after an hour. There was a lot of backlash about this game and I heard people compare to Life is Strange, which also had it's fair share of haters but which I really liked. But while they're similar on paper; they're both story based games about teenagers hanging out in which the soundtrack plays a big part and with little action gameplay-wise, Mixtape fails in all aspects. The story…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Waited about 2 years for this game to come out and it was just mid... I think I just got my hopes up and thought it would be as good as life is strange, but hey maybe something else they will make will be just as good as that. Also the whole "omg look at this song and now we are talking to the camera" was NOT it same goes for the main character she was the type of person I would NEVER want to speak to... no wonder the cop disliked her and everyone else in the story. Makes sense why reviewers…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't think I'd recommend it. It's not really a game. There isn't really 'gameplay' to speak of. The game is gorgeous, but the story feels like a worse version of Ferris Bueller's Day Off. I spent an hour with the game and kept waiting for it to pick up, but then I just put it down and didn't want to pick it back up again. It honestly had me thinking more of my own memories as a kid/teenager than about the game. I didn't particularly care about the characters and, maybe the narrative gets…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →thisgamefuckingrules I love this game, my god it was a perfect flashback to being a kid in the 90s. Or at least how I remember it…. 😎🤙 What a way to start #playdays #mixtape
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