Is Assassin’s Creed Mirage More Realistic Than Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2? A Medieval Expert Answers (translated)

The historical realism of medieval games depends on more than whether every detail can be matched against the historical record. This article invites Herodot’com, a YouTube creator who has long produced explanations of medieval history, to compare Assassin’s Creed Mirage’s approach, centered on reconstructing Baghdad’s atmosphere, with Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2’s immersive systems in fifteenth-century Bohemia, including food, sleep, hygiene, reputation, equipment maintenance, and historically grounded European martial-arts combat; it also uses the dynastic, marriage, succession, and religious systems of Crusader Kings 3 as another form of representation. The central question is not which game single-handedly earns the title of “most realistic,” but how each work makes trade-offs among historical sources, narrative, and playability.