Mirror's Edge™ Catalyst similar games & best alternatives

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Mirror's Edge™ Catalyst

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

Should you play it?

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.

What works

  • 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

Things to keep in mind

  • 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

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Demon Turf: Queens Edition

  • Sayonara Wild Hearts

  • Kitten Burst

  • SONIC X SHADOW GENERATIONS

  • Get To Work

  • Race The Sun

Less competitive

Games that feels like Mirror's Edge™ Catalyst but with less competition against others

  • Prey

  • Omno

  • CONTROL Ultimate Edition

  • Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered

  • Marvel's Spider-Man 2

  • Skate Story

More violent

Games that feels like Mirror's Edge™ Catalyst but with more combat and destruction

  • Grand Theft Auto V Legacy

  • STRIDER™ / ストライダー飛竜®

  • Shadow Complex Remastered

  • Batman: Arkham City - Game of the Year Edition

  • Batman™: Arkham Knight

  • BlasterBeat

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • STAR WARS™ Battlefront

  • Battlefield 3™

  • Battlefield 4™

  • Battlefield™ 1

  • Battlefield™ V

Similarity map

How to compare these games

Compare nearby games

Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Mirror's Edge™ Catalyst. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Mirror's Edge™ Catalyst. These titles are not in What to play next.

Mirror's Edge™ Catalyst: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Story, Fantasy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Exploration, Story, Relaxation.

Last update: 21/08/2026