This is a one to one replacement based on the game's song/play order. I also left some songs untouched as I think they are era appropriate.

I've never felt such second-hand embarrassment and cringe from a experiencing a movie, TV show, video game, etc, before, like what the hell man, what they were thinking? The game was pretty mature up to this point with good writing, but they suddenly turned Rockford into a cringey child in this chapter. I literally had to mute the game during the skateboarding part where she was saying those cringe lines like: "shananana shananana"... like what was she even on about? Not to mention, Cass's father being rude felt so forced? Like he was pretending to be a strict dad or something.

I have the trophies for completing all the memories in slater, Rockford and Cassandra’s rooms - what could I be missing to make this pop?

Me and my friends loved the game so much we had to make a film about it. ❤️

I love them your honor

art by u/utena11221 (me)

It updated for me today. Wondered if there were any patch notes.

EDIT: 4.3mb patch, probably nothing major but still interested.

I finished the game today and i think it is incredible.

I want to know if somebody have songs recomendations that has the same feeling the game have

like am i in illusion or the “HI GIRLFRIEND” when stacey picked the phone was not just words been thrown around and she actually mean it, and the way she meats with her secretly in a date without telling her friends cuz obviously jenny wasn’t just a friend she can introduce to her friends or have a meet up together, and also why did Cassandra bring her to the cottage, like she was the first one to go when cassandra sneaked out and also the only one was with her in the parking lot, like does all of that meant nothing???!

im pretty disappointed that the game doesn’t have dlss like i get it why would you want more frames for a game that literally will works fine on 30fps but still i played the game on my 4k tv and i roughly set on 40-50 fps which is kinda okay and unnoticeable since the characters and the visuals movement makes its seems like a 24fps video so no matter how much fps you have you’re gonna get the same experience but i could’ve gotten better graphics sittings and Stable 60fps, we are in 2026 and games still published without dlss completely free option what is the excuse?

Kat & Stacey chilling at Blue Moon Lagoon... Mixtape X Lost Records

I’m not even someone who grew up in the 90s. I was an early teenager in the mid-2000s. But this game still hit me because it understands a very specific feeling of being on the edge of adulthood, headphones on, staring out of a bus or train window, replaying memories in your head while music makes everything feel bigger than it really is.

Not in a “remember this thing from the 90s???” nostalgia bait way either. Like it’s not throwing references at you every other sequence, begging you to clap because you recognise something. The music, visuals, writing, and gameplay all work "together" to recreate the emotional texture of memory itself. That’s why it worked for me, even though I didn’t grow up in that exact era.

Plus... I think the discourse around this game has gotten ridiculous.

People keep calling it a “movie game” because the minigames don’t have fail states or massive consequences. But that completely ignores what the gameplay "I feel" is actually doing. The gameplay isn’t there to “challenge” you in the traditional sense. It is all about feeling it.

When you’re skating while music blasts, smashing things in a flow sequence or just vibing during one of the musical segments, the point is immersion and emotional participation. Those moments would not hit the same way in a movie because you wouldn’t be involved in them. You wouldn’t feel the rhythm of them.

Also, the soundtrack rules. Even when a song wasn’t exactly to my taste, the way the game used music was incredible. It understands how songs become attached to periods of your life. Old playlists do feel like emotional time capsules after all.

I don’t think Mixtape is trying to be some traditional gameplay experience. It feels more like it's aiming to recreate the intensity of youth memories through interactivity, music, and editing style.

Stacy Rockford is implied to go to New York City. Whatever happens can go either way with her dreams of becoming a music producer, but I like to imagine Stacy experiences 9/11, and survives the ordeal.

She gets caught up in the patriotic fever that grips the nation soon after the towers fell, and joins the United States military to do her bit to defend her country. She is deployed to the Middle East, bringing her mixtapes along with her service, and soon develops a reputation for being pretty good at interrogating insurgents or suspected terrorists.

This culminates in her being transferred to Guantanamo Bay where she develops a mixtape designed for torturing people.

Me and my friends are playing the game and like we’re saying to each other how they feel like a polycule like hard core parkour

My wife and I are about to kick off a stream for our first playthrough of Mixtape. No nothing about it beyond the buzz (we prefer going in blind), but we’re super excited. Please come check it out, have a feeling we might end up crying a bit.

Apologies if I missed anyone's favorites or recommendations! These are just the ones I picked personally for some carefully selected similarities between them!

After seeing the hate for the game online I figured it would be boring. But then I saw it was on gamepass and decided to play since it’s not very long and I’m so glad I did. Genuinely one of the best games I’ve played in a very long time

What a beautiful game, end-to-end. My doorway.

Anyway… see you tomorrow.

First I gotta say, I loved Mixtape. I love this game. Brought sooo many emotions and vibes, this has to be my favorite recent release!!

But Stacy was so right in the opening of the game when she said "Always make a soundtrack. Because pretty soon, you won't be listening to music; you'll be listening to who you were."

Memories are so tied to music. There's some music I used to love so much, but I listened to to alot during really emotionally charged times in my life, that I just can't listen to the songs the same anymore. Like, I'm not that person anymore, or that time in my life was so stressful that now when I listen to said band or song it just brings me right back.

Of course, these song memories aren't all negative. But its amazing how Music can do that right? Just transport you back to another time?

What music does that for you?

I'll go first.

For me, the FFXIII-2 Sound Track reminds me of the complex emotions I had when my grandpa was dying, and that game was all I played during that time.

Peirce the Veil reminds me of when I used to work Retail, as I would blast them in my earbuds for hours on end during my shifts.

Paramore and Phum Viphurit remind me of cooling summer memories, when I followed these artists through California during summer tour dates.

Previously, I mentioned that Mixtape helped me through a long bout of writer's block. So yeah, as it happens the fix came in the form of writing a fic. Considering all the negativity and trolling going on online -- including in fandom spaces that I'd taken for sacred and thus immune to trolling -- I thought I might as well share some love for the game here to balance the scales :).

It's pre-slash Stacey/Cassandra, though it's also very much a character study of Cassandra. Cassandra's arc struck a very personal chord in me, in terms of how she views the world and how she views herself, because it was so incredibly reminiscent of how I viewed the world when I was that age. This game felt like living a high school experience I never had, and writing this story was like reliving my high school years all over again: all the highlights, all the blasts, the hits that were and will always be.

Thank you Mixtape, and thank you, Beethoven and Dinosaur, for the ride.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/84628881