Iconic art style and visuals
Mentioned in ~1 in 2 positive reviews
“The aesthetics are unforgettable — that clean, minimalistic city with bold splashes of red guiding your path was unlike anything else at the time.”
Steam review · 5.2 h played ↗
Mirror's Edge™
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Very Positive · 88%Very Positive · 88%DICE20093D Platformer · Platformer · Puzzle
The verdict
A stylish, short first-person parkour classic with superb art and music, held back by janky controls, unwelcome combat and a PC port needing fixes. Skip it if you hate trial-and-error.
Great for
Fans of stylish movement games and art direction who don't mind tweaking settings and retrying sections
Main risk
Inconsistent, clunky controls and forced combat frustrate, and it may need fixes to run on modern PCs
What changed in the last 30 days
77 recent reviews
Recent negative reviews mostly cite clunky movement, bad combat, launch failures and freezing when alt-tabbing on modern PCs. No single new patch is clear; this is a modest signal.
77 recent reviews
What players love
Satisfying first-person parkour flow
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“as someone who’s into parkour stuff irl, this game is the best distillation of the feeling that free running gives you.”
Steam review · 44.8 h played ↗
Holds up and influential for its age
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“The father of every first person movement game.”
Steam review · 13.4 h played ↗
Great ambient soundtrack
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“This game introduced me to the world of amazing ambient music from artists such as Solar Fields”
Steam review · 15.7 h played ↗
Short and tight, doesn't overstay
Mentioned in ~1 in 10 positive reviews
“Short, sweet, stylish. There is barely an ounce of fat on this baby.”
Steam review · 17.3 h played ↗
What players complain about
Clunky, inconsistent parkour controls
Mentioned in ~1 in 2 negative reviews
“Faith will miss objects she should grab, which makes playing this game a real pain”
Steam review · 27.6 h played ↗
Confusing level design and overly bright visuals
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews
“Figuring out where you need to go is also very frustrating, the game will highlight with red but you have no idea to how to approach it”
Steam review · 0.9 h played ↗
Combat and gunplay are bad
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“the combat is awful. It's either no challenge at all or insanely tedious.”
Steam review · 6.8 h played ↗
Poor performance and broken PhysX
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews
“the broken physx reducing FPS to 5 whenever glass breaks”
Steam review · 4.4 h played ↗
Won't launch or crashes on modern PCs
Mentioned in ~1 in 11 negative reviews
“it refuses to launch now on my new computer.”
Steam review · 9.4 h played ↗
Alt-tab freezes or crashes
Mentioned in ~1 in 15 negative reviews
“You can't alt+tab. If you do you have to kill the exe”
Steam review · 2.8 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: VerifiedController support8 GB
Minimum
Processor3.0 GHz or faster
Memory1 GB RAM or more
GraphicsDirectX® 9.0c compatible video card, Shader Model 3.0 required. Video card must have 256 MB, NVIDIA GeForce 6800 or better
Storage8 GB free space
Processor3.0 GHz or faster
Memory1 GB RAM or more
GraphicsDirectX® 9.0c compatible video card, Shader Model 3.0 required. Video card must have 256 MB, NVIDIA GeForce 6800 or better
Storage8 GB free space
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