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Ashley Bardhan

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***"

Mixtape protagonists lounge in a sunlit bedroom with purple walls and fairy lights.

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."

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