Friend Circle
Camille Cole
A nearby peer who expands the friend-group energy beyond the central trio.
The Game
About Mixtape
A music-driven coming-of-age adventure that will change how you hear summer
Official Trailer
See It in Action
The Story
One Last Summer
Mixtape follows three friends replaying the memory of one final night together. It is a music-driven coming-of-age adventure about friendship, trouble, joy, and the songs that stick to a moment forever.
The experience moves through playable memories rather than a conventional checklist: skating, flying, sneaking out, taking photos, setting off fireworks, playing baseball, and cutting through surreal teenage recollections.
Released on May 7, 2026, Mixtape comes from Beethoven & Dinosaur and Annapurna Interactive, with a soundtrack direction built around post-punk, new wave, alternative rock, synth, soul, and left-field classics.
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Small town, big feelings
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Build the perfect mixtape
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Playable memories
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28 credited tracks
The Cast
Meet the Characters
Three friends at the center, with classmates, locals, and authority figures shaping the memories around them
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Stacey Rockford
Aspiring Music Supervisor
Stacey Rockford is the emotional center of the story, using music to hold one last night together before graduation changes everything. Her bedroom details, record stacks, and carefully chosen songs make her feel like someone building an identity from liner notes, posters, and private memories.
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Featured Track: Atmosphere โ Joy Division
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Cassandra Morino
The Grounding Force
Cassandra keeps the group honest when the night gets too loud, too fast, or too strange. Her scenes show the tension between confidence and vulnerability, especially when jokes, dares, and awkward bedroom conversations turn into memories the friends cannot easily explain.
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Featured Track: That's Good โ DEVO
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Van Slater
The Spark
Van Slater pushes the final night into motion with bigger risks, louder jokes, and the kind of chaos that only makes sense years later. His character moments connect the party energy to the quieter fear underneath: leaving school, leaving friends, and leaving a version of yourself behind.
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Featured Track: Plainsong โ The Cure
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Supporting Cast Around the Core Trio
These characters sit outside Stacey, Cassandra, and Van's friendship triangle, giving the night its social friction, local texture, and pressure.
Local Contact
Jenny Goodspeed
A town-facing presence that helps connect the teenage memories to everyday places.
Authority Pressure
Officer Morino
An adult authority figure who raises the stakes when the final night gets out of hand.
How It Plays
Gameplay Mechanics
Four pillars that make Mixtape unlike anything you've played before
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Exploration
Move through memory-driven scenes: skating, flying, sneaking out, photographing the world, playing baseball, and setting off fireworks.
Open exploration with guided story beats
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Dialogue Choices
The story is built around the bond between three friends and the way songs can pull old conversations, arguments, jokes, and regrets back to the surface.
Branching dialogue with real consequences
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Song Selection
At key moments, you choose which song plays โ and that choice changes the emotional tone of the scene, the character reactions, and even unlocks different story paths.
Music as a narrative mechanic
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Rhythm Sequences
During climactic emotional moments, the game shifts into rhythm-based mini-games โ simple, expressive, and perfectly synchronized to the licensed soundtrack.
Rhythm mechanics for peak emotional moments
Behind the Game
Made with Love
Mixtape was created by Beethoven & Dinosaur, the studio behind The Artful Escape, and published by Annapurna Interactive, home to Kentucky Route Zero, Stray, and Outer Wilds.
The current fan-site soundtrack reference is based on a 28-track credited list. Storefront descriptions highlight music from artists including DEVO, Roxy Music, Lush, The Smashing Pumpkins, Iggy Pop, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Joy Division, and The Cure.
May 72026 Release
28Credited Tracks
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MESRB Rating
Launch Facts
Released May 7, 2026
Current launch date used across the site
Developer
Beethoven & Dinosaur
Publisher
Annapurna Interactive
Soundtrack Reference
28 credited tracks
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Steam, Xbox, PlayStation, Nintendo, Epic
Behind the Publisher
Who Made Mixtape?
The story behind Annapurna Interactive, Megan Ellison, and why Mixtape exists
Annapurna Interactive
Annapurna Interactive is the games label of Annapurna Pictures, founded by Megan Ellison in 2011. Annapurna Pictures is a film production and financing company behind critically acclaimed movies including Her, Zero Dark Thirty, American Hustle, and Phantom Thread.
Annapurna Interactive launched in 2017, initially publishing What Remains of Edith Finch โ which went on to win BAFTA Game of the Year. Since then, the label has become one of the most respected curators of narrative and artistic games in the industry, publishing titles including Outer Wilds, Stray, Kentucky Route Zero, Telling Lies, Neon White, and The Artful Escape.
Mixtape continues this tradition โ a short, emotionally precise narrative game developed by Beethoven & Dinosaur (the Melbourne studio behind The Artful Escape) and published by Annapurna Interactive in May 2026.
Megan Ellison
Megan Ellison is the founder of Annapurna Pictures and the driving creative force behind Annapurna Interactive. She is the daughter of Larry Ellison, co-founder and executive chairman of Oracle Corporation, one of the largest technology companies in the world.
Megan Ellison is widely credited with using her independence and resources to fund risky, artistically ambitious projects that larger studios and publishers would not take on. Her approach to both film and games has consistently prioritized creative vision over commercial formula โ a philosophy visible in Annapurna Interactive's entire catalog, including Mixtape.
Searches for "Megan Ellison" and "Larry Ellison" have spiked alongside Mixtape's launch, as players curious about the game's background discover the family connection and the broader Annapurna story.
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What Remains of Edith Finch (2017)
BAFTA Game of the Year ยท First Annapurna Interactive title
Outer Wilds (2019)
BAFTA Game of the Year ยท Time-loop exploration
Stray (2022)
10M+ copies ยท Cyberpunk cat adventure
The Artful Escape (2021)
By Beethoven & Dinosaur ยท Same developer as Mixtape
Mixtape (2026)
Day One on Xbox Game Pass ยท 28-song licensed soundtrack
Who is Larry Ellison?
Larry Ellison is the co-founder, executive chairman, and chief technology officer of Oracle Corporation, one of the world's largest enterprise software and cloud companies. He is consistently ranked among the wealthiest individuals in the world. His daughter Megan Ellison founded Annapurna Pictures in 2011, which later expanded into the video game space as Annapurna Interactive.
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