The Complete Mixtape Soundtrack: Every Song In Order And Where To Stream
Annapurna Interactive’s Mixtape rewinds to the 80s with a wall-to-wall needle drop, scoring Slater, Rockford, and Cassie’s last rebellious day—here’s every song powering their coming-of-age finale.
Time for a quick detour from movies and TV—because sometimes the most cinematic coming-of-age stories show up in, of all places, a video game. Annapurna Interactive just dropped their latest, Mixtape, and it’s basically a playable love letter to teenage chaos, nostalgia, and every darkly-lit 1980s movie night you ever had. If you’re already picturing John Hughes credits rolling by, you’re in the right neighborhood. And yeah—the soundtrack does some serious heavy lifting.
What Mixtape Actually Is
Forget your usual shooter or fantasy RPG. Mixtape is all about that last day with your friends—three teens (Slater, Rockford, Cassie) squeezing in a final round of small-town rebellion before everything changes. If the premise is familiar, it’s supposed to be: the game is openly inspired by those classic '80s coming-of-age flicks.
You’re dropped right into the shoes of Rockford, whose big dream is, conveniently, to become a Music Supervisor. Nice bit of meta—he wants to pick out soundtracks for stories, and here you are, guiding him through his own. So, yeah, music isn’t just background noise here; it’s a whole character in the narrative.
Every Song in Mixtape—And Why the List Actually Matters
Let’s get right to it. Annapurna and the developers (Beethoven & Dinosaur, for those keeping score) stacked Mixtape with a soundtrack so on-the-nose it’s practically showing off. We’re talking Joy Division, The Cure, even Iggy Pop. For a game wrapped in teen angst and soft neon, you kind of need the music to pull its weight—and here, every song lines up with a piece of the kids’ story.
- Atmosphere – Joy Division
- That’s Good – DEVO
- Plainsong – The Cure
- Just Like Honey – The Jesus and Mary Chain
- Monochrome – Lush
- Have You Seen Her? – The Chi-Lites
- Remember When – Mitch Murder
- State of the Heart – Mondo Rock
- The Touch – Stan Bush
- Most of All – B.J. Thomas
- Roads – Portishead
- Freak – Silverchair
- Love – The Smashing Pumpkins
- Candy – Iggy Pop
- Galaxy in Turiya – Alice Coltrane
- More Than This – Roxy Music
- Spellbound – Siouxsie & The Banshees
- Sensitive to Light – Rainbow
- Witchi Tai To – Harper's Bizarre
- Yesterday’s Hero – John Paul Young
- Shine – David Gray
- Dare – Stan Bush
- Drunk Flamingo – Abrahams and Mole
- Powder – Allclear
- Airwalker – Bertrand Dolby
- Deep Space Scan – Curtis Dunn
- Zebra Crossing – The Eye Gougers
- Moon Unit – Wooden Sword
Most games aren’t gutsy (or funded) enough to license this level of classic tracks, but Mixtape basically treats them like plot devices. Each song is hand-picked to soundtrack a specific moment in the teens’ journey—so if you spot, say, Just Like Honey by The Jesus and Mary Chain, something big is probably happening.
What Else to Know (And Why You Should Care)
Mixtape isn’t just style—critics are actually liking this thing. Reviews have been landed squarely in the ‘good-to-great’ camp, and some outlets are flat-out raving. Not surprisingly, Annapurna’s got this running everywhere you might want to play: PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, Windows, and Nintendo Switch 2. So if you want that cinematic mood and a wall-to-wall killer soundtrack but in a format you can actually interact with, this one’s worth keeping an eye on.
'The songs in the game are more than just ear candy—they actually drive the story forward. Music supervision doesn’t get much more meta than this.'
Bottom line: If you’re a sucker for bittersweet teen stories or just want to hear DEVO in a place that isn’t my dad’s car stereo, Mixtape goes deep. And yes, the playlist really is that good.