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Subscribe from just £3 Takes you closer to the games, movies and TV you love Try a single issue or save on a subscription Issues delivered straight to your door or device From£9.99View Summer Game Fest New games for 2025 Upcoming Switch 2 games Switch 2 stock Recommended reading Mixtape sent a sherpa up a mountain to get the rights to use a song, and Grand Theft Auto has "nothing on our toilet paper tech" Adventure Games Nostalgic new Mixtape trailer demonstrates the impossible power of a Life is Strange-like: I now want to attend my high school reunion From a Stardew Valley-like with a horrifying twist to an adventure from the artist behind Journey, these are the Day of the Devs SGF Edition 2025 games I need in my life Action RPGs Oblivion Remastered is cool, Clair Obscur is good, but I just want this bizarre Legend of Zelda disciple that emerged from the sea of RPGs like a fish with legs Adventure Games Fresh from the Xbox Showcase, There Are No Ghosts At The Grand is the supernatural powerwashing musical I didn't know I needed Adventure Games I thought only needing two buttons would make this Steam Next Fest rhythm demo easier... I couldn't have been more wrong Action Games My first 3 hours in Atomfall feel playing Fallout 3 for the first time, and if you don't check it out I'm legally obliged to bash you with a cricket bat Adventure Games Nostalgic indie game from publisher Annapurna is a "respite from the current cursed reality" inspired by real-life, dev says: "Ended about as well as you can expect, including a nice scar, and cow s***" Ashley Bardhan 20 June 2025 Mixtape takes the berries with the bruises When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. (Image credit: Beethoven & Dinosaur) While it may be set to the '80s alt-rock fuzz of bands like Lush and Roxy Music, upcoming narrative adventure game Mixtape impressed us at both Summer Game Fest and Tribeca Film Festival this year with how its demo plays out like a timeless dream – which developer Beethoven and Dinosaur's producer Woody suggests is part of the point. "We don't have an ideal player," Woody says, "we don't make our games with a target player or audience in mind. We make our weird little games and hope people can find some escape and enjoyment, maybe some respite from the current cursed reality we find ourselves in." "After The Artful Escape, we knew we wanted to do another music adjacent game, but weren't really set on anything," he continues. Beethoven and Dinosaur's last game from 2021, The Artful Escape, similarly followed a teenager with rock star aspirations, and the game was also published by Annapurna, like Mixtape will be; in our The Artful Escape review, we think the platformer game offers "up an entrancing psychedelic world that is somehow still half-dormant, waiting for a few chords to help burst it open at the seams in explosions of colors and lasers." You may like Mixtape sent a sherpa up a mountain to get the rights to use a song, and Grand Theft Auto has "nothing on our toilet paper tech" Nostalgic new Mixtape trailer demonstrates the impossible power of a Life is Strange-like: I now want to attend my high school reunion From a Stardew Valley-like with a horrifying twist to an adventure from the artist behind Journey, these are the Day of the Devs SGF Edition 2025 games I need in my life (Image credit: Beethoven & Dinosaur) Mixtape, set among the mowed lawns and identical driveways of an American suburb, is visually more restrained than that, but its protagonists nonetheless continue to prove Beethoven and Dinosaur's point: good music is transformative. So, Mixtape's best friends let songs like "Just Like Honey" supercharge their shopping cart joyrides on the night of their last high school party together. I wonder how true Mixtape's mischief is to its developers' experiences, and Woody answers that, "I mean, I have ridden in a shopping cart that was tied to the back of a dirt bike and was getting towed around a cow paddock. Ended about as well as you can expect, including a nice scar and cow shit." Anyway, also on the topic of shit, some aspects of young adulthood are universal – regardless of whether you experience them from Ronald Reagan's suburbs or, I guess, an iPhone 1 Million in a few decades. Like, most kids feel "that whirlpool of feelings that is wanting to be something so bad, but you don't know what that something is yet," Woody says. Sign up to the GamesRadar+ Newsletter Weekly digests, tales from the communities you love, and more Contact me with news and offers from other Future brandsReceive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsorsBy submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over. "Every band you hear, every film you see – grabbing onto those [things] so tightly, as a way to define and anchor yourself, to be able to say this, this, is who I am," Woody continues. "Everything always feels like it's the most important thing that's ever happened to you. It's a wild time." Mixtape will be out some time this year on PC, PS5, and Xbox Series X|S. Mixtape sent a sherpa up a mountain to get the rights to use a song, and Grand Theft Auto has "nothing on our toilet paper tech." See more PS5 News Summer Game Fest Annapurna Interactive Xbox Series X PlayStation Ashley Bardhan Senior Writer Ashley is a Senior Writer at GamesRadar+. She's been a staff writer at Kotaku and Inverse, too, and she's written freelance pieces about horror and women in games for sites like Rolling Stone, Vulture, IGN, and Polygon. When she's not covering gaming news, she's usually working on expanding her doll collection while watching Saw movies one through 11. You must confirm your public display name before commenting Please logout and then login again, you will then be prompted to enter your display name. Mixtape sent a sherpa up a mountain to get the rights to use a song, and Grand Theft Auto has "nothing on our toilet paper tech" Nostalgic new Mixtape trailer demonstrates the impossible power of a Life is Strange-like: I now want to attend my high school reunion From a Stardew Valley-like with a horrifying twist to an adventure from the artist behind Journey, these are the Day of the Devs SGF Edition 2025 games I need in my life Oblivion Remastered is cool, Clair Obscur is good, but I just want this bizarre Legend of Zelda disciple that emerged from the sea of RPGs like a fish with legs Fresh from the Xbox Showcase, There Are No Ghosts At The Grand is the supernatural powerwashing musical I didn't know I needed I thought only needing two buttons would make this Steam Next Fest rhythm demo easier... 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