Ubisoft’s free Assassin’s Creed Mirage Discovery Tour app allows you to explore 9th century Baghdad

Ubisoft is releasing a free Discovery Tour app covering the history of Baghdad, the setting of . The game launched in 2023 without Ubisoft’s “Discovery Tour” feature, a mode that’s previously been packed into Assassin’s Creed games — starting with 2017’s — and uses the game’s open-world maps and character models to illustrate the history and cultural specifics of their chosen setting.

This new app takes a slightly different approach, reworking the map of Assassin’s Creed Mirage to deliver a two hour narrative adventure set in 9th century Baghdad. The Discovery Tour app also includes “encyclopedic entries on the history, art, and culture of medieval Baghdad and the Abbasid Caliphate” and an augmented reality feature that lets you view 3D models of famous artifacts.

It sounds like less of a playable history lesson than past Discovery Tours, but still an excellent use of the historical research that goes into each Assassin’s Creed game. It’s a bit unusual the app is being offered for free when Ubisoft has traditionally charged for Assassin’s Creed games or its , but maybe that reflects Assassin’s Creed Mirage‘s unique place in the series. The game was pitched as a back-to-basics stealth game without the open-world fluff of past games, and largely delivered.

Ubisoft’s approach to Assassin’s Creed might also be changing in general. The game franchise was spun-off alongside Far Cry and Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six into partially funded by Tencent earlier this year. Even grander plans to turn Assassin’s Creed into an always-online still loom in the background, too.

You can download and try the Ubisoft’s Discovery Tour App: Medievil Baghdad for yourself from the App Store and Play Store.