How Long to Beat Mixtape?

Q: How long does Mixtape take to beat?

Expect to finish Mixtape in about 3 hours. A straightforward run on Steam clocked in at 3 hours and 6 minutes, credits included. That's the baseline if you're playing through the narrative without exhaustively probing every optional conversation or background prop. Some chapters wrap in minutes; others stretch depending on how much you engage with the minigames and environmental interactions.

Q: How long is a completionist run?

Plan for 3 to 5 hours if you want to sweep up all achievements and trophies, with 4 hours being a realistic target. The extra time comes from revisiting specific chapters to satisfy exact requirements, like nailing only home runs as Cassandra or bursting three pig balloons within a tight window. A thorough first pass can net you around 65% of the available achievements in that initial 3-hour window. The remaining 35% don't demand massive replays; most just require executing a specific action in a particular way during a given chapter. The upside: Mixtape includes a Chapter Select feature on the main menu. After your first completion, you can jump directly to any chapter to clean up anything you missed without repeating the entire game.

Mixtape is a compact narrative experience from Beethoven & Dinosaur, published by Annapurna Interactive. You guide Rockford, Slater, and Cassandra through one final summer day together before they part ways, set against a stellar soundtrack and clear homage to 1980s coming-of-age cinema. If you're weighing the time commitment against the asking price, here's what you're getting into.

How long does Mixtape take to beat?

Expect to finish Mixtape in about 3 hours. A straightforward run on Steam clocked in at 3 hours and 6 minutes, credits included.

That's the baseline if you're playing through the narrative without exhaustively probing every optional conversation or background prop. Some chapters wrap in minutes; others stretch depending on how much you engage with the minigames and environmental interactions.

One last day with the trio

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Mixtape costs $19.99, placing it squarely in line with other brief narrative titles from Annapurna Interactive.

How long is a completionist run?

Plan for 3 to 5 hours if you want to sweep up all achievements and trophies, with 4 hours being a realistic target. The extra time comes from revisiting specific chapters to satisfy exact requirements, like nailing only home runs as Cassandra or bursting three pig balloons within a tight window.

A thorough first pass can net you around 65% of the available achievements in that initial 3-hour window. The remaining 35% don't demand massive replays; most just require executing a specific action in a particular way during a given chapter.

The upside: Mixtape includes a Chapter Select feature on the main menu. After your first completion, you can jump directly to any chapter to clean up anything you missed without repeating the entire game.

Chapter Select saves replay time

Playtime breakdown by run type

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All 30 chapters in Mixtape

Mixtape contains 30 chapters in total, and their lengths vary significantly. The opening sequence wraps in minutes, while chapters centered on minigames or optional exploration can run much longer depending on your approach.

Skate to Rockford's
Rockford's House
The Kiss
Headbanging
Shopping Cart Bomb
Rockford's Headphones
Debbie's Bedroom
Ultimate Slushie
Photobooth
The Ritz Discovery
Skate to Cassandra's
Skipping Stones
Cassandra's House
Softball
Toilet Paper Attack
Floating on Sadness
Cassandra's Rooftop
Bodacious Cretaceous
Skateboard Explosion
The Shitty Ritz
Door Painting
Couch Moving
Leaf Sweeping
Slingshot
Slater's House
Starlight Video
The Run
Coastal Cruise
Party at the Ritz
Finale

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Multiple achievements are locked to specific chapters and can only be triggered once per run. If you're chasing platinum or full completion, cross-reference the chapter list above with a trophy guide before you start so you know which chapters need focused attention.

Is 3 hours enough for the price?

This question surfaces every time a short narrative game launches, and Mixtape is no exception. At $19.99, you're looking at roughly $6.50 per hour on a standard playthrough, which aligns with other well-received short narrative titles at the same price point.

Mixtape currently holds a 94/100 average on OpenCritic with a 100% critics recommend rating, which suggests the runtime isn't damaging its reception. Games in the adventure games space have repeatedly demonstrated that a focused 3-hour experience can land harder than a padded 30-hour one, and Mixtape leans into that choice deliberately.

For complete coverage of what you can unlock across the game's chapters, the Mixtape guides collection has everything you need to maximize your playthrough.