Baghdad is the principal setting of Assassin’s Creed Mirage.
Mirage is set in ninth-century Baghdad during the Islamic Golden Age, especially under the Abbasid Caliphate. The player follows Basim Ibn Ishaq, who begins as a street thief and becomes a Hidden One. Baghdad’s districts, markets, mosques, and scholarly institutions form the main environment for his transformation and missions.
The game is set primarily in 861, during the reign of the Abbasid caliph al-Mu’tazz. Its world includes locations such as the Round City, an important historical design associated with Abbasid Baghdad, although the game adapts locations and events for fiction.
Baghdad distinguishes Mirage from other Middle Eastern settings in the series. Cairo is central to Assassin’s Creed Origins’ Egyptian world, while Alexandria is another major Origins location. Mirage’s historical focus is Baghdad at the height of Abbasid political and intellectual life.