Mixtape is now out, however don’t be shocked for those who don’t see many streams or VODs of it out in the wild. That’s as a result of it doesn’t have a streamer mode, which implies Twitch and YouTube playthroughs will wrestle to achieve any monetization resulting from licensing points.
Developer Beethoven & Dinosaur has a excellent motive for this, although, as a result of merely put, Mixtape is nothing with out its soundtrack stuffed with pop songs.
In a assertion launched on social media, Beethoven & Dinosaur mentioned: “We’ve received a few questions on why Mixtape has no streamer mode. It’s a truthful query. Mixtape is about music. It’s about Devo. It’s about the Smashing Pumpkins, and Lush, and Alice Coltrane. It’s about how you are feeling if you hearken to Iggy Pop.”
“The characters speak about the songs,” the put up continues. “The degrees are designed round the songs. We couldn’t change the songs. We couldn’t exchange them. We simply couldn’t.”
The Australian developer signed off with a remaining message, apologising in a means becoming of the sport; by way of a music lyric. “When you wished to stream Mixtape and can’t due to this, we’re actually sorry, however as David Grey says in Shine, ‘Your soul is the one factor you’ll be able to’t compromise,’ and music is the soul of Mixtape.”
A notice from BnD about streaming. pic.twitter.com/eu71bvvaUz
— MIXTAPE by Beethoven & Dinosaur (@bnd_studio) May 7, 2026
Having performed Mixtape myself, I wholeheartedly agree. The music selection is integral to the expertise, with every chapter of its story completely matched to the type and dialogue with which they’re paired. Merely changing these songs with generic music wouldn’t work and take an excessive amount of away from it. Belief me, although, it’s finest performed for your self, anyway.
You can take a look at my 10/10 evaluation of Mixtape right here, the place I known as it “a musical delight from begin to end that units a new commonplace for coming-of-age tales in video games.”
Simon Cardy is a Senior Editor at IGN who can primarily be discovered skulking round open world video games, indulging in Korean cinema, or despairing at the state of Tottenham Hotspur and the New York Jets. Comply with him on Bluesky at @cardy.bsky.social.