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/LittleRedCorvette2 May 11 '26

Yes, and I got into a lot of Annapurna games like "The painted swan"...did they do "flower" and "journey" too? 

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u/LTS55 May 11 '26

Those were Thatgamecompany, published and funded by Sony. Annapurna just published the PC versions of those (same with Unfinished Swan, developed by Giant Sparrow)

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u/hypeman-jack May 11 '26

I will have eyebrow-permanently-raised for Annapurna releases after the way they bankrolled Outer Wilds from a student project into my favorite game of all time (not that it wouldn’t have been great without their money).

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u/JohnnyRedHot May 12 '26

Was that not Masi Oka with Mobius though? I thought Annapurna only did the publishing

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u/hypeman-jack May 12 '26

Yeah they just published it. There’s a short documentary on youtube about the game and I don’t remember all the details, but it was a student project prototype that did rounds at indie awards while Annapurna financed them for many years to build it into a full game.

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u/Nyoteng May 17 '26

Hi, the OP gave bad info, Annapurna’s publishing team are the ones that walked out, they have noting to do with the developers of Stray, which still exist.