Mixtape is out today, putting Beethoven & Dinosaur's music-led narrative adventure straight onto Xbox Game Pass at launch.
The new release is available on Xbox Series X|S, Xbox on PC and Xbox Cloud. Xbox also lists it as an Xbox Play Anywhere title, so one digital purchase supports play across Xbox console and PC where the program applies.
One last night, one long soundtrack
Mixtape follows Stacey Rockford and two friends on their final night together before Stacey leaves for New York to chase a career in music. The night is framed around a teenage beach party, but the game moves through memories, small acts of rebellion and the anxious thrill of realizing childhood is about to change shape.
That setup gives Mixtape a different launch pitch from a routine adventure game. The story is not only about reaching the party. It is about the songs tied to those moments, with sequences set to tracks by artists including Devo, Silverchair, Harper's Bizarre and Rainbow.
The Xbox Store page describes the game as three friends embarking on one final adventure and playing through "a mixtape of memories, set to the soundtrack of a generation." It lists Beethoven & Dinosaur as developer and Annapurna Interactive as publisher, with action and adventure, music and platformer tags.
Light interaction supports the story
According to the official launch write-up, Mixtape is structured as a series of interactive vignettes rather than a traditional systems-heavy adventure. Players might headbang along to a song, ride through a memory, take photos in a booth or steer through a surreal set piece while the soundtrack drives the scene.
That format fits Beethoven & Dinosaur's earlier work on The Artful Escape, another Annapurna-published game that used music and heightened visual style as part of its identity. Mixtape looks more grounded in teenage memory and 1990s culture, but it is reaching for a similar sense that music can turn personal history into something bigger and stranger.
Mixtape launches into a busy subscription month for Xbox. It joins the service shortly after the first May wave of Xbox Game Pass additions, giving subscribers another new-release option alongside larger platform and indie arrivals.
For players, the important part is simple: Mixtape is playable now if you are on Xbox Series X|S, PC through Xbox or Xbox Cloud, with Game Pass access included from day one.