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The Legend of Zelda is an adventure game where you venture through a mysterious land and fight enemies. As you explore, you use your sword and shield to defeat monsters you find secrets and puzzle-filled dungeons. As the first game in The Legend of Zelda series, it already features the sense of heroic exploration and adventure that makes the games so popular.
If you enjoyed The Legend of Zelda, there are other games in the The Legend of Zelda franchise you should try. Unfortunately, The Legend of Zelda is not available on Android, Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox X|S or iOS. However, we recommend the following games that offer a similar experience or theme:
Release Date: 21/02/1986
Out Now: GBA and NES
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Players: 1
Genres: Action, Adventure (Fighting, Narrative and Traversal)
Accessibility: 0 features documented (Tweet Developer )
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Developer: Nintendo (@Nintendo)
Costs: Purchase cost
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Tunic is an action-adventure game where you play a small fox who wakes with no memory of where he is. You push through trees, pick up weapons and learn new moves to discover an expanse of forests, caves and landscapes.
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Garden Story is a role-playing adventure, crafting and farming game similar to Stardew Valley.
Garden Story is a role-playing adventure, crafting and farming game similar to Stardew Valley. It also features combat, dungeons and puzzles similar to the Zelda games.
Out Now: Mac, PC, Switch and Xbox One
Rogue Heroes: Ruins of Tasos is a fighting game where you battle Titans and explore the dungeons of an expansive over-world.
Rogue Heroes: Ruins of Tasos is a fighting game where you battle Titans and explore the dungeons of an expansive over-world. It's unusual because it combines the homemaking of Stardew Valley with classic Zelda style adventures and lets you play with up to four players at a time.
Out Now: PC and Switch
Death's Door is a noir adventure game where you play a crow whose job it is to reap the souls of the dead.
Death's Door is a noir adventure game where you play a crow whose job it is to reap the souls of the dead. When one goes missing you must fight, run and jump through a fantasy world to get it back.
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Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion is an action role-play game where you play a Turnip working hard to pay off a massive tax bill to Mayor Onion.
Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion is an action role-play game where you play a Turnip working hard to pay off a massive tax bill to Mayor Onion. The setup soon gives way to a series of Zelda-style quests, dungeons and puzzles that earn new items and abilities.
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
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The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds is an action-adventure game in the Zelda series.
The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds is an action-adventure game in the Zelda series. It's the seventeenth game and spiritual successor to the 1991 game The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past.
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening is an adventure-puzzle game in the Zelda series and universe.
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening is an adventure-puzzle game in the Zelda series and universe. A remake of the 1993 Game Boy game of the same name, this one is set on Koholint Island and follows Link after he is stranded and must find a way back to the land of Hyrule.
Out Now: Game Boy and Switch
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Yono and the Celestial Elephants is an adventure puzzle game about helping a young elephant restore order to the world. You explore the world and help the characters you meet by solving puzzles going on treasure hunts and occasionally taking on some light combat.
Lonesome Village is a simple dungeon adventure that also simulates life in a cosy mysterious village.
Lonesome Village is a simple dungeon adventure that also simulates life in a cosy mysterious village. You play by exploring, collecting and talking to the other villagers, before heading to solve the puzzles of the adventure.
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Littlewood is a town and farming simulator a little like Stardew Valley or Animal Crossing.
Littlewood is a town and farming simulator a little like Stardew Valley or Animal Crossing. Here though, the twist is that the game is set after a grand adventure.
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Haunted Chocolatier is a strategy game by the creator of Stardew Valley.
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Cadence of Hyrule is a Zelda-infused version of a popular rhythm-action indie game called Crypt of the NecroDancer. Like the original, you go on an adventure viewed from above and progress by moving, attacking and dodging in time with the music.
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Out Now: Mac and PC
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If The Legend of Zelda is not age appropriate for your child, here are similar games ordered by age rating so you can find an age-appropriate alternative that’s also a game they will love.
If you like the sound of The Legend of Zelda but find it too complex or challenging, the games in this section offer a similar experience but with a lower Skill Rating.
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Out Now: Switch and Wii U
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Sneaky Sasquatch is an adventure game where you sneak around in campsites and try to find food from coolers and picnic baskets without getting caught. From this simple premise grows a game with endless ways to play and explore its open world: race, play golf, ski, scuba dive, find buried treasure, rent an apartment, get a driver's licence or just find some books to read.
In addition to the similar games listed above, which have been linked to this game specifically in the database, you may find games with a similar theme to The Legend of Zelda in the following lists: