Game

Mirror's Edge

2008 · PlayStation 3 · PC (Microsoft Windows) · Xbox 360 · Platform · Puzzle · Adventure

75IGDB player score
982 ratings

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A 75 average, but 982 ratings means plenty of people love it anyway. An adventure game leaning hard into science fiction — more about the journey than the destination. Just you and the game. No lobbies, no teammates, no excuses.

About this game

Mirror's Edge is a first-person action-adventure game focused on parkour and free-running. Set in a heavily surveilled city, players control Faith, a courier who traverses rooftops using wall-runs, jumps, and slides to deliver sensitive information. The gameplay emphasizes momentum and fluid movement over combat, with a focus on finding the fastest path through urban environments.

In a near-future city where an authoritarian government controls the media and monitors its citizens, Faith Connors works as a Runner, an underground parkour courier who physically carries sensitive messages to avoid surveillance. When a reformist political candidate is murdered and Faith's twin sister Kate, a police officer, is framed for the killing, Faith races across the city's rooftops to uncover the conspiracy behind the assassination. Her investigation leads her to a private security firm running a covert program designed to eliminate Runners, and she discovers that trusted allies are not what they seem.