Mirage: Arcane Warfare

Mirage: Arcane Warfare was a team-based multiplayer action game played from a first-person perspective. Combat was melee-focused with magical abilities.[1] Players had the freedom to choose from six different classes, character archetypes that had different abilities and skills.[2] The game featured deathmatch and objective-based game modes, like capture the flag, capture points, and payload.[1]

Mirage: Arcane Warfare was developed by Torn Banner Studios.[1] The game was developed in the Unreal Engine 4 game engine.[3] The game was released for Windows on 23 May 2017.[1][4] Torn Banner offered players access to a closed beta as a pre-order incentive.[4] Post-launch, Torn Banner supported the game with free updates by adding features requested by players, such as AI opponents, new maps, and new modes.[5]

Mirage: Arcane Warfare received "mixed or average" reviews from professional critics according to review aggregator website Metacritic.[6] PC Gamer reviewer T.J. Hafer found the combat to be fun and gameplay systems to be well-designed. However, due to the game being a multiplayer-only title, he was hesitant to recommend it because of the lack of player activity.[1] Arnold Burgess of PC PowerPlay agreed that the game's primary issue was its current lack of players. He praised the character design, the combat, and the environments of the levels.[2]

Commercially, the game was a failure. In September 2017, Torn Banner noted that launch sales of Mirage were poor, which led them to run a promotion that offered the game for free for a limited period and subsequently dropped the game's price permanently.[7] Torn Banner removed Mirage from sale and shut down the game's official servers in May 2018 in response to the EU's implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation.[8]