Hyrule Warriors

A Legendary Pairing: Cut down entire legions of enemies as Link, Zelda, Midna and other characters from The Legend of Zelda franchise using over-the-top powerful Dynasty Warriors-style moves. This tour de…

75 14 August 2014

Hack and slash/Beat 'em up Strategy Action

Hyrule Warriors is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Omega Force, released 14 August 2014 on Wii U.

Verified 27 Sep 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What Hyrule Warriors is

Hyrule Warriors is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Omega Force and released in 2014. It was published by Koei Tecmo Games. It is available on Wii U only. It runs on Amityville.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Hyrule Warriors is a 2014 hack and slash game developed by Omega Force and Team Ninja and published by Nintendo for the Wii U. The game mixes settings and characters from Nintendo's The Legend of Zelda franchise with the gameplay of Koei Tecmo's Dynasty Warriors series, and features an original story following numerous Zelda characters as they team up to stop the resurrection of Ganondorf.

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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative and Single player.

Where it sits in the The Legend of Zelda series

Hyrule Warriors is the 69th of 133 entries we hold in the The Legend of Zelda series. The next entry was Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS in 2014. Its critic score of 75 is 11 points below the series average of 86. The highest-rated entry is The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past at 100.

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How it was received

Hyrule Warriors holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 57% of the 1,124 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 6 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 74, across 129 votes.

What it launched against

Hyrule Warriors launched on 14 August 2014, within three weeks of The Last of Us Remastered, Metro 2033 Redux, Metro: Last Light Redux and Metro Redux. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: The Last of Us Remastered, Metro 2033 Redux, Metro: Last Light Redux, Metro Redux.

Cheats and codes

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