Today, Ubisoft announced that it has made a mobile app that lets players explore the setting and timeframe of Assassin’s Creed Mirage. The Discovery Tour App: Medieval Baghdad is a free mobile experience that immerses players in 9th-century Baghdad during the Abbasid Empire. It is now available for free through the App Store and Google Play Store, and can also be accessed on any device through a web browser.
Using the recreation of Baghdad in Assassin’s Creed Mirage, the app allows users to explore this lost city, a former capital for political, scientific, cultural, and commercial advances. You can even find real-life artifacts, like the Ruby Lustre Bowl from the Arab World Institute Museum in Paris, recreated with high-quality 3D scans. The app can be explored through two different modes:
- Access Codex provides players with carefully selected encyclopedic entries on the history, art, and culture of medieval Baghdad and the Abbasid Caliphate. Based on the Codex entries from History of Baghdad in Assassin’s Creed Mirage, players can interact with this content through the Augmented Reality features of the app and benefit from additional historical information for each element.
- Explore Baghdad is a gamified, narrative-driven journey that takes approximately 2 hours to complete. Players are tasked to collect Codex entries through a series of minigames and 360° exploration.
The Discovery Tour App: Medieval Baghdad was developed in partnership with Sugar Creative, one of the UK’s leading immersive technology companies, and with the support of the Welsh Government via Creative Wales.
Assassin’s Creed Mirage was originally released back in 2023, putting players in the shoes of Basim Ibn Ishaq, a street thief who joins the Hidden Ones to fight for peace and liberty while also facing an internal struggle between his duties and his desire to uncover his mysterious past. The title was a considerable success, accumulating 5 million players and estimated $250 million in revenue by January 2024.
Assassin’s Creed Mirage is currently available on PS4, PS5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S, and for iOS on iPhone 15 Pro and iPadOS on iPad models on 6, starting at $49.99. For more information on this or other games in the series, like Assassin’s Creed Shadows, or news on the upcoming live-action adaptation, be sure to check back to Simulation Daily.
