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Mirror's Edge™ Catalyst

PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One, PlayStation 4 • 2020

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Quick resume

Mirror's Edge™ Catalyst raises the action-adventure bar through fluid, first person action and immerses players in Faith's story as she fights for freedom.

Global score

80/100

Genres

Action, Adventure, Platform

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    Pros

    • Fluid and satisfying parkour mechanics
    • Beautiful and immersive city of glass environment
    • Engaging soundtrack and sound design
    • Open world with exploration and side missions
    • Custom time trials and user-generated content

    Cons

    • Weak and predictable story
    • Clunky and repetitive combat
    • Mandatory origin account and server shutdown issues
    • Some control and animation inconsistencies
    • Open world design leads to linear bottlenecks and repetitive routes

    Motivations

    • Autonomy

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    • Competence

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      "The game offers skill-based combat, parkour, and stealth mechanics with multiple difficulties and challenges, rewarding player mastery."

      Capsule for Sword With Sauce Sword With Sauce

      "The game offers skill-based parkour movement and combat challenges with a skill tree to unlock abilities, though some tasks can be repetitive."

    • Competition

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      "Includes leaderboards and ranking modes, encouraging comparison with others."

      Capsule for #KILLALLZOMBIES #KILLALLZOMBIES

      "Includes leaderboards and time trials with online rankings (now offline), encouraging comparison with others."

    • Continuation

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      "Players report long play sessions, replaying missions for optional challenges, and engagement with additional content and mods."

      Capsule for Tactical Breach Wizards Tactical Breach Wizards

      "Players report habitual play, replaying missions, and engaging with side content and challenges over long sessions."

    • Cooperation

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      "Primarily a single-player experience; multiplayer was removed and cooperation is minimal or absent."

      Capsule for Vecter Vecter

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    • Creativity

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      "Players can create their own lines and share custom challenges, fostering creative exploration."

      Capsule for Steep™ Steep™

      "Players can create and share custom time trials and routes, adding creative engagement beyond preset content."

    • Domination

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      "Interactions are cooperative and balanced; no emphasis on exerting control or superiority over others."

      Capsule for Farming Simulator 17 Farming Simulator 17

      "Interactions are balanced without emphasis on exerting control or superiority over others; cooperative and respectful tone."

    • Escapism

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      "Players use the game to relax, explore beautiful worlds, and escape real-life stress through immersive parkour gameplay."

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      "Players use the game to relax, enjoy immersive environments, and escape real-life stress through flowing parkour gameplay."

    • Expectation

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      "Players engage voluntarily out of intrinsic interest and personal desire rather than obligation or external pressure."

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      "Players engage voluntarily out of intrinsic interest and personal desire rather than obligation or external pressure."

    • Experimenting

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      "Encourages trying movement mechanics, exploring levels, and discovering secrets."

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      "Encourages exploration of movement mechanics, new routes, and creative problem solving in an open world."

    • Exploration

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      "Open world design with puzzles, secrets, and abilities to unlock new areas encourages discovery and curiosity."

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      "Open world design with many districts, collectibles, and hidden areas encourages discovery and curiosity-driven play."

    • Expression

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      "Some character and equipment customization exists, but limited compared to core gameplay."

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      "Some customization options like player cards and emblems exist, though limited compared to core gameplay."

    • Fantasy

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      2

      "Set in a stylized dystopian sci-fi future with imaginative elements like kaiju and UN occupation, blending fiction with real-world themes."

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      "Futuristic dystopian setting with stylized environments and narrative elements, though grounded in plausible sci-fi."

    • Fellowship

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      "Mostly solo play with minimal social interaction; local multiplayer exists but no online community or social features."

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      "Mostly solo play with minimal social connection; online community features were limited and are now defunct."

    • Growth

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      "Skill trees and upgrades provide learning and progression opportunities through repeated play."

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      "Skill tree and progression system promote learning new moves and improving player ability over time."

    • Health

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      "Primarily sedentary gameplay with no physical activity; some players mention real-life parkour attempts but game itself is sedentary."

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      "Primarily sedentary gameplay with no physical activity component; some players motivated to try real parkour but indirect."

    • Idle

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      "Requires focused attention and continuous engagement with parkour and exploration challenges."

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      "Requires focused attention and continuous engagement to maintain flow and momentum during parkour sequences."

    • Intimacy

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      "Limited social interaction; character relationships are narrative only with minimal emotional depth."

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      "Limited emotional or close social interactions; character relationships are shallow and story is not deeply personal."

    • Leadership

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      "No leadership or group management roles; gameplay is individual and self-directed."

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      "No leadership or group management roles; gameplay is individual and self-directed."

    • Progression

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      3

      "Players accumulate experience, skills, items, and upgrades throughout the game."

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      "Players accumulate experience points to unlock skills and upgrades, and collect items throughout the world."

    • Relaxation

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      "Players find the game relaxing and enjoyable with a soothing soundtrack and satisfying gameplay."

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      "Many players find the game relaxing and immersive, with a soothing soundtrack and flow-inducing gameplay."

    • Sensation

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      "Visuals, music, and sound design provide strong sensory stimulation and emotional engagement."

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      "Visuals, sound design, and music provide strong sensory stimulation and emotional engagement."

    • Status

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      "Leaderboards and rankings offer some recognition, but social status is not a major focus."

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    • Story

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      "Story is present but considered weak and confusing; narrative is secondary to gameplay."

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    • Strategy

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      "Requires some planning and decision-making to achieve desired routes and endings, but no complex problem solving."

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      "Requires planning routes and problem solving for optimal parkour paths and mission completion."

    • Thrill

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      "Gameplay includes suspenseful moments and challenge spikes that create tension and excitement."

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    • Value

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      "Players report good value especially when purchased on sale, with many hours of content."

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    • Violence

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    • Survival

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    Analysis

    A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Story, Expression. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Exploration, Story. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Fellowship.

    How to use the graph
    Similar games map

    Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Motivations” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

    • Larger dot with a light outline: the game you are viewing.
    • Colour: groups of games with comparable motivation patterns (statistical clusters).
    • Hover a dot to see the game name; click to open its page.
    • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

    Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers.

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    Last update: 30/04/2026