The game is a prequel to the original Mirror's Edge, setting the scene about Runners and the city's shady corporations.

Mirror's Edge is side-scrolling platform game where the player must control the protagonist, Faith Connors, as she navigates a city.

[1] The game acts as a prequel to the original Mirror's Edge, setting the scene about Runners and the city's shady corporations.

[3] The game was originally announced on December 2, 2009, for iPhone and intended to be released in January 2010,[4] but it was delayed so that the developers could add more content and make additional tweaks.

[1][13] IGN considered Mirror's Edge one of the best launch games for the iPad,[2] while Eurogamer described it as a "beautiful 2.5D interpretation" of the original, praising its intuitive controls and Faith's fluid animations.