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 that allows users to explore the history and culture of 9th century Baghdad, the setting of their recent game Assassin's Creed Mirage. The app features a two-hour narrative adventure, as well as encyclopedic entries on the history, art, and culture of the Abbasid Caliphate. It also includes an augmented reality feature that lets users view 3D models of famous artifacts. This app is a departure from Ubisoft's previous Discovery Tour offerings, which were typically included as part of the Assassin's Creed games. The decision to make this app free is also unusual, as Ubisoft has traditionally charged for such content. This may be due to Assassin's Creed Mirage's focus on a more streamlined, back-to-basics gameplay experience, without the open-world elements of past games. The article also suggests that Ubisoft's overall approach to the Assassin's Creed franchise may be changing, with the series being spun off into a new subsidiary partially funded by Tencent, and the potential for an always-online live-service game in the future.