How long does it take to beat AC Mirage? Story & 100% Completion Time

After the overly long RPG titles in the Assassin’s Creed series, Mirage serves as a palate cleanser, taking the franchise back to its roots and featuring mechanics that made the original games beloved. Mirage is reminiscent of the older games not only in setting and gameplay but also in length too.

Assassin’s Creed Mirage’s main story takes around 15 hours to complete, while both main and side missions take around 20 hours. A completionist run of the game takes around 27 hours.

Even though the numbers above are definitive estimates, playtime can always differ from player to player based on a lot of factors, like how they play, how much time they spend focusing on the different aspects of the game, what difficulty they play on, etc.

1. How to get 100% Completion in AC Mirage

A completionist run of Assassin’s Creed Mirage means doing everything the game has to offer. Here’s what you really need to do to achieve 100% completion of the game:

• Complete all Main Missions
• Collect all collectibles:
  • 21 Viewpoints
  • 66 Historical Sites
  • 30 Gear Chests
  • 7 Lost Books
  • 18 Dervis’ Artifacts
  • 10 Mysterious Shards
  • 12 Enigmas
  • 6 Tales of Baghdad
• Complete all Contracts
• Unlock all Trophies / Achievements

2. How many difficulty settings are there in Assassin’s Creed Mirage?

Assassin’s Creed Mirage offers three difficulty settings before players begin their journey with Basim which are:

• Easy
• Normal
• Hard

These are pretty general and basic difficulty settings, and as always, I suggest playing the game on Normal mode first to have a balanced experience and then running it again on a harder difficulty for a tougher and more challenging playthrough.

3. Is Assassin’s Creed Mirage the shortest Assassin’s Creed game?

Assassin’s Creed Mirage is one of the, if not the shortest, games in the series, with Freedom Cry being the shortest. It has a lower price than other Assassin’s Creed titles due to it serving as a smaller adventure, unlike the previous games.

It clocks in around 15 hours for main story completion, and while the playtimes differ from player to player, you don’t need to sit for 40-50 hours to complete the game. It’s short, sweet, and something the franchise needed after the last three games.

4. How many endings does Assassin’s Creed Mirage have?

Assassin’s Creed Mirage has only one definitive ending that sets up the events in Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, since it’s a prequel to it. There is no secret ending or a post-credits scene.

Multiple endings have been present in some of the previous titles, but since this is a prequel, it has only one, which reveals that Basim and Nehal are the same person and that they are Loki, directly setting up the inevitable meeting of Eivor and Basim.

5. All Main Missions List

Assassin’s Creed Mirage has 43 main missions that follow the journey of Basim as he transforms from a young street thief into a master assassin:

• The Master Thief of Anbar
• A New Beginning
• Taking Flight
• Baghdad Bound
• Follow Nur’s Lead
• Contact the Rebels
• Zeroing In
• Jailbreak
• A Delicate Alliance
• First Order
• Old Wounds
• Branching Out
• Fire and Wisdom
• House of Wisdom
• Follow the Fiery Trail
• Find the Missing Brother
• Return to the Rafiq
• The Great Symposium
• Coins and Daggers
• Coin, Corruption, and Tea
• Of Toil and Taxes
• The Toll of Greed
• A Faceless Feather
• Gilded Butterflies
• A Grand End
• Blood and Shadows
• The Hunter
• Like Father, Like Son
• The Raptor and the Demon
• Bird Trap
• To Catch a Demon
• The Chase
• Den of the Beast
• The Return
• The Head of the Snake
• The Fox and the Hunter
• The Servant and the Imposter
• Judge and Executioner
• One Final Counsel
• The Serpent’s Nest
• The Last Journey
• In Pursuit of Truth

6. All Side Missions List

Besides the main story, Assassin’s Creed Mirage also features side missions focusing on collectibles. Here’s a list containing all of them:

• Dervis’ Artifacts:
  • Scandinavian Brooch
  • Money Cowrie
  • Aksumite Amulet
  • Buddhist Votive Plaque
  • Small Chinese Box
  • Tang Censer
  • Round Moon Plaque
  • Olibanum
  • Ivory Chess Piece
  • Jade Comb
  • Glass Weight
  • Decorated Shell
  • Pyxis
  • Coptic Censer
  • Sillan Christian Cross
  • Staurotheke
  • Kissi Penny
  • Byzantine Bracelet
• The Calling
• Al-Jahiz’s Lost Books:
  • Al-Tabari: Tafsir of al-Tabari
  • Kalila wa-Dimna
  • Al-Kwarizmi: Al-Jabr
  • The Banu Musa: Book of Ingenious Devices
  • Al-Sikkit: Diwan Abu Nu’as
  • Suleimain al-Tajir: Accounts of China and India
  • Kitab Al-Zahif
• Tales of Baghdad:
  • Holy Mission
  • Blade In The Crowd, Tool In The Shed
  • A Life’s Work
  • Leap of the Faithful
  • Curse Of The Si’la’
  • Treasure Hunt

7. About Assassin’s Creed Mirage

Assassin’s Creed Mirage is an action-adventure game developed by Ubisoft Bordeaux and published by Ubisoft. The game is the thirteenth primary installment in the Assassin’s Creed series and the successor to 2020’s Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. While its historical timeframe precedes that of Valhalla, its modern-day framing story succeeds Valhalla’s own.

Set in 9th-century Baghdad during the Islamic Golden Age—in particular during the Anarchy at Samarra—the story follows Basim Ibn Ishaq (a character first introduced in Valhalla), a street thief who joins the Hidden Ones to fight for peace and liberty against the Order of the Ancients,[b] who desire peace through control. The main narrative focuses on Basim’s internal struggle between his duties as a Hidden One and his desire to uncover his mysterious past.