How Long is Assassin's Creed Mirage?

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It’s well documented that Assassin’s Creed Mirage is a considerably smaller adventure compared to the previous 3 entries in the series, but just how long is it? Here we’ll let you know exactly how many hours it took different members of the IGN team to finish the story, and what they prioritised doing with their time.

Everyone plays games differently, so read on for more details about how everyone played, how long it took to reach the credits, and how much extra time players spent exploring the world. Once you've finished the game yourself, be sure to submit your times on How Long To Beat and see how your time compares!

I feel like I took my time with the main story of Assassin’s Creed Mirage, clocking in 15 hours and 49 minutes before the credits rolled. Although I left a large amount of the side content to explore, I did make sure to try out enough of it so I felt like I got the full experience of everything the game had to offer.

As expected, upon story completion the game kicks you back into Baghdad to continue to exploring, and with most regions only 50% complete, I decided to do just that. I mopped up every outstanding contract I could fine, collected all the shards, artifacts and historical sites and ended up pinging the very easy and obtainable platinum trophy in a breezy 23 hours and 27 minutes. Considering the same feat in Valhalla took me over 100 hours, Ubisoft definitely weren’t lying when they said this was a much shorter Assassin’s Creed!

After sinking over 120 hours into Valhalla just a couple of years ago, I wasn’t up for 100 percenting another Assassin’s Creed game just yet. So for Mirage, I focused mostly on the main questline, which is made up of five core investigations. The credits rolled after 16