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There has been a lot of great video game releases in 2025 so far, and fans can now enjoy the newly released Split Fiction on Steam Deck. While even more great games are set to come out in March including Assassin’s Creed Shadows, it’s always worth looking at hidden gems in the free-to-play market. One of these hidden gems includes a new free-to-play game on Steam that is likened to Mirror’s Edge and has 99% positive reviews.
New free-to-play Mirror’s Edge-esque game on Steam has 99% positive reviews
The Local is a new free-to-play experience that was released on February 27th for Steam. It is a fast-paced, first-person parkour game, hence the comparisons to Mirror’s Edge, and it has a unique visually art style.
It’s officially described as a “fast-paced movement game, loosely inspired by Surf and B-Hop,” with five modes, a large open-world, and multiplayer. The single-player modes include time trials, but you can also just explore the world at your leisure in Zen to master your abilities at performing rail grinding, wall climbing, air strafing, and bunny hoping.
As for multiplayer, there is a mode similar to capture the flag, and there is also an Infection mode. You can also explore the world via Zen in multiplayer, too, and multiplayer does support proximity chat.
According to SteamDB, it has 99.39% positive reviews when hovering over the user rating. One of the many glowing reviews says it has “really fun movement,” and is “very much BRC, Mirror’s Edge”. Another review says it is “one of the best free games I have ever found,” and another says it is “just fun and fast parkour” as a cocktail of “Quake 3 strafe map vibes, CS surfing, Mirrors Edge”.
It only has 165 user reviews as of writing, so it’s definitely an experience that is going under-the-radar. As something that is free-to-play, it’s definitely worth checking out, especially if you were a fan of the Mirror’s Edge games from EA.
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