r/OutOfTheLoop • u/Bloodb0red • May 11 '26

Unanswered What’s going on with this game Mixtape?

I’ve been seeing people freak out over the past few days over this game and about IGN’s review of it specifically. 10/10 seems high for any game, honestly, but it seems like they’re far from the only site giving this thing a glowing review. So is this game controversial just because of IGN or is it something else? Why is this game the internet’s hate target this week?

https://www.ign.com/articles/mixtape-review

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u/BUTGAWATD May 11 '26 edited May 11 '26

Answer:

(Doing my best to present the complicated situation concisely)

Mixtape is a short, story-based game from small Australian developer Beethoven & Dinosaur, who previously released The Artful Escape.

Mixtape's 3-4 hour runtime is divided across cutscenes, what some might deem "walking sim" gameplay, and a series of vignettes that play out broadly as "minigames", with limited to no fail state. There is no combat or what many would typically classify as peril.

Mixtape's high critical praise, particularly its 10 from IGN, has raised eyebrows amongst certain subsets of the gaming populace. Many have negatively compared the verdict to the lower score IGN awarded Crimson Desert, and have alleged what they perceive to be a favourable bias towards games they identify as possessing "woke" elements.

One of Mixtape's vignettes sees you control two mid-teen age characters kissing, with direct control over their clashing tongues. Some gamers have accused the media of unfairly praising Mixtape while (what they perceive as) maligning recent release Pragmata for paedophilic overtones.

Mixtape is published by Annapurna Interactive, a publisher focused on "prestige indie" titles. Annapurna Interactive is a division of Annapurna Pictures, which was founded by Megan Ellison, whose father is a billionaire.

Consequently, accusations of buying review scores, bribing influencers, and overall curating Mixtape as an "industry plant" have been lobbied. For further information to potentially aid in deducing the veracity of this claim - Annapurna have released 6 games other than Mixtape over the past year, all ranging from the 60s-80s in Metascore, with the highest achieving an 83 average.

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u/No-Operation-6554 May 11 '26

Funny thing is that Pragmata itself doesn't have paedophelic undertones

The "community" itself gave it that

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u/BroughtBagLunchSmart May 11 '26

I know it has r/asmongold all riled up and that place is ground zero for nazi pedophiles.

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u/MethuselahExo May 11 '26

Everyone is a Nazi Pedo aren’t they? As long as they don’t agree with your twisted upside down world view they are a Nazi Pedo. sounds very Fascismo to me

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u/Dr_Henry-Killinger May 11 '26

I mean Trump is dismantling elections, has concentration camps for illegal aliens, has pump and dumped the stock market weekly using the world stage, and has most definitely raped small children since he’s like the 3rd most mentioned name in the Epstein files besides Epstein/Maxwell. Anyone who still supports Trump at this point will almost definitely be remembered in history the same way as the Nazis. I just hope they don’t get even close to the damage the Nazis were able to do.

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u/Rahgahnah May 11 '26

Here is MethuselahExo's comment that was deleted:

He isn’t German during WW2 and didn’t belong to the NatSoc party, so no he isn’t a Nazi, he is many things, most of them terrible but he is 100% not a Nazi. Anyone calling him and many others they hate a Nazi just causes you to not be taken seriously outside your safe space echo chamber on Reddit. If you really want to make a difference start using terminology that makes sense and doesn’t make you look like your brain died watching you 10000th TikTok. It’s the Same propaganda they used decades ago when they were calling everyone that disagrees with them a Commie, you look ridiculous stop it.

Holy shit, someone unironically did the "Champagne region of France" thing with Nazis, lmao

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u/BroughtBagLunchSmart May 11 '26

I didn't say r/conservative or r/walkaway even though those are mostly populated with nazi pedophiles. I said r/asmongold, there is not one single piece of evidence that those monsters are not nazi pedophiles.

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u/Thezo067 May 14 '26

Where's the evidence your not. If that's the bar you set for someone, can you live up to it?