The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition
In this sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, you’ll decide your own path through the sprawling landscapes of Hyrule and the mysterious islands floating in the vast skies above. Can you harness…
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition is an adventure developed by Nintendo EPD Production Group No. 3, released 5 June 2025 on Nintendo Switch 2.
What The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition is
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition is an adventure game developed by Nintendo EPD Production Group No. 3 and released in 2025. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo Switch 2 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
In this sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, you’ll decide your own path through the sprawling landscapes of Hyrule and the mysterious islands floating in the vast skies above. Can you harness the power of Link’s new abilities to fight back against the malevolent forces that threaten the kingdom? Now with 240 additional voice memories in the Zelda Notes mobile app, you can experience the game with additional lore!
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy, open world and sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the The Legend of Zelda series
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition is the 130th of 133 entries we hold in the The Legend of Zelda series. The next entry was Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment in 2025. Its critic score of 100 is 14 points above the series average of 86. The highest-rated entry is The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past at 100.
How it was received
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition holds a critic score of 100 out of 100. That places it above 100% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2025 averaged 78, so it scored 22 points above the year average.
What it launched against
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition launched on 5 June 2025, within three weeks of Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Doom: The Dark Ages, Dune: Awakening and The Alters. It reviewed better than all of them. It arrived 8 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Death Stranding 2: On the Beach, Doom: The Dark Ages, Dune: Awakening, The Alters.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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