Assassin's Creed Mirage

Assassin's Creed Mirage is Ubisoft's deliberate return to the franchise's roots — a love letter to the original Assassin's Creed that strips away the massive open-world RPG scope of Odyssey and Valhalla in favour of a focused, stealth-driven experience set in the dazzlingly realized Abbasid Caliphate city of Baghdad. Following Basim Ibn Ishaq's transformation from a street thief into a Hidden One, Mirage emphasizes the core assassin fantasy: blending with crowds, using eagle vision to identify targets, setting up elaborate kills, and escaping through rooftop parkour. The city of Baghdad is a genuine achievement — densely packed, architecturally spectacular, and brought to life with attention to its historical culture and geography. For longtime fans exhausted by the series's bloat, Mirage's compact 20-hour campaign was exactly what was needed. A focused, satisfying Assassin's Creed adventure.