EbiTapes Steam: Sound Mixtape Adventure

EbiTapes (Steam). Hover for a Voidge draft sketch inspired by a fragment of the capsule park lineup.

Honestly, EbiTapes is the kind of Steam gem I keep a list for. It landed on September 22, 2026 from Geese & Goose, a small Hungarian studio shipping a hand-drawn musical adventure about recording sounds, weaving mixtapes, and saving the Annual City Festival from the Shushinator. App ID 2221850. List price $14.99, currently 15% off at $12.74. Single-player. Full controller support. Steam Achievements. Steam Cloud. Family Sharing. Windows and macOS.

You bet that pitch hits. Cozy-grunge jam energy without turning into a soft walking tour. Your snarky cat companion Zongy tags along. You meet friends, collect ambient audio, hold tiny live concerts, and remix your way through puzzles. If your October shelf already ate lane-defense co-op and dark fantasy crawls, this is the warmer discovery lane that still asks you to listen.

Open the clip on X if the embed does not load. Cut from the official EbiTapes trailer.

Headphones on, recorder ready

Store copy stays clear. Set off on a musical journey with Ebi. Navigate challenges to save the Festival. Meet friends. Collect sounds. Hold your own live concerts and remixes. The about page leans into a laid-back world for all ages: dance with cows, hunt lost slippers, mend friendships one beat at a time. Your main tool is a sound recorder. Capture interesting noises in the world, play them back in the right place, and build music out of what you found.

I am into how little this leans on empty hype chrome. The fantasy is tactile. Oversized headphones. A yellow cassette player HUD. Sound tags like fountain, tulips, office beat, and snoring sitting in a paper-scrap palette. You read one still and you already know the loop is listen, record, arrange, share.

If your Steam pocket already liked the photo-journal calm in Look to the Birds or the cozy shop craft in Alchemess, EbiTapes keeps the indie honesty and swaps the camera for a mic. Different kitchen than Magical Blush. Same respect for a small studio that drew the whole world by hand.

Park bench, grandma, and a full sound board

One still does overtime for the whole pitch. A black frog protagonist with big eyes and red-yellow headphones stands in a sandy park. An elderly woman in a white bonnet and round glasses sits on a yellow bench. Tall whimsical plants and tulips scribble up behind them. Top left: an 11/11 sound collection grid. Bottom left: a yellow cassette player with drums already slotted in.

Kinda perfect, honestly. You see the friendship beat and the mixtape desk in the same frame. That is discovery energy without a lore dump. Take a look at how the UI looks like scrapbook paper instead of a min-max spreadsheet. Heck, that alone tells you who this game is for.

EbiTapes (Steam). Hover for a Voidge draft sketch inspired by a fragment of the park sound session still.

Jam circle on a pink rug

Another still sells the community fantasy without a roster screen. Five quirky friends stand on a patterned pink rug indoors. The frog in orange headphones. A pale blue-skinned girl in an orange dress. A tall green four-eyed tambourine player. A pointed-nose drummer. A lanky conductor with a baton. The cassette HUD is playing a track labeled Party Hard. Sound tags for mountains cozy, tribe vibes, and office beat sit in the tape.

For sure that is the live-concert promise in one second. You are not farming DPS windows. You are building a room that wants to hear the mix. Pretty solid silhouette work for a studio this size, and it matches the trailer cuts where Make Your Mix banners point straight at the cassette desk.

EbiTapes (Steam). Hover for a Voidge draft sketch inspired by a fragment of the jam circle still.

Shushinator pressure, festival stakes

The villain pitch is simple and sticky. Someone wants to silence the Festival. Ebi answers by recording the world louder. Trailer beats lean into SHUSH speech bubbles, No Music signs, and quiet offices that hate your cassette player. Town squares with Cafe de Luna awnings. Glowing mushrooms on dark paths. A fish-headed local named Wendel. A shopfront that literally says EbiTapes Sound and Mixtapes.

That is the right shape for a short adventure, you bet. Explore. Talk. Record. Arrange. Play it back where it belongs. The official trailer keeps the same energy: explore overlays, new sound pickups, NPC chats, then the mixtape desk. Menus and the wishlist end card stay out of our clip cut.

Why this Sep 22 launch still matters on Oct 5

EbiTapes arrived with a gameplay trailer that is all doodle world and no empty lore dump, and a hook your Discord mate gets before the first cassette clicks. Steam sits at Positive from 18 reviews so far (18 positive, 0 negative). Modest count. Clean signal for a $15 indie.

@EbiTapes is active. Launch day original on September 22. Positive-review thank you on September 28. Steam Deck Verified announcement on October 4 with a clear note that the sale runs a couple more days. Geese & Goose even posted about being a small Hungarian team that still loves adventure games when they are not trendy. Honestly, that hits.

Wavecrashers held the lane last night. This morning you walk the trail with headphones on.

Who should press record today

• Adventure fans who want puzzles driven by listening, not lockpicks.
• Art-first indie hunters who care about hand-drawn worlds that look like a real sketchbook.
• Cozy-curious players who still want a Festival stake and a villain that hates noise.

Skip it if you need online co-op, a finished AAA runtime, or combat-first loops. EbiTapes is a single-player Windows and Mac adventure at $14.99 (on sale at $12.74 while the current Steam cut lasts). The cows are dancing. The cassette is waiting. Take a look.