Which Assassin's Creed game is set primarily in Baghdad during the Islamic Golden Age?

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Assassin's Creed Mirage is set primarily in Baghdad during the Islamic Golden Age.

Mirage follows Basim Ibn Ishaq as he develops from a street thief into an Assassin. Its main setting is ninth-century Baghdad, portrayed during the Abbasid period. The city is divided into districts with distinct political, commercial, scholarly, and religious identities, giving the game a concentrated urban structure compared with the broad regional maps of several earlier entries.

Origins is set in Ptolemaic Egypt, Valhalla focuses largely on Viking-era England and Norway, and Revelations centers on Constantinople. Each has connections to the wider Assassin's Creed timeline, but Baghdad is Mirage's defining setting.

The game was released in 2023. Mirage presents the Hidden Ones as the predecessor organization of the later Assassin Brotherhood and includes historical context about Baghdad's intellectual and political importance. It also revisits stealth-focused gameplay and design ideas associated with the earliest games.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Oct. 2026

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