The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
An epic adventure across the land and skies of Hyrule awaits in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom for Nintendo Switch. The adventure is yours to create in a world fueled by your imagination. In this…
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is an adventure developed by Nintendo EPD Production Group No. 3, released 12 May 2023 on Nintendo Switch. The main story takes about 116.8 hrs to finish.
What The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is an adventure game developed by Nintendo EPD Production Group No. 3 and released in 2023. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo Switch only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
While exploring the caves underneath Hyrule Castle to investigate the origins of the gloom (a dangerous substance which appeared all over the kingdom), Link and Zelda not only find old archeological remains of the Zonai, an ancient race said to have descended from the sky, but also an maleficent mummy held by a bodiless arm, who suddenly reanimates, defeats Link, breaks the Master Sword and rise large structures, once found underground, to the skies above Hyrule, with Zelda vanishing with a spark from a strange amulet found on the site. Some time later, Link awakens in an unknown place on a floating sky island and meets a mysterious spirit called Rauru, which transplanted his arm (the same…
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 is the 125th of 133 entries we hold in the The Legend of Zelda series. The next entry was Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition in 2024. Its critic score of 95 is 9 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 holds a critic score of 95 out of 100. That places it above 98% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2023 averaged 76, so it scored 19 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 94, across 934 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 116.8 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 176.3 hrs, roughly 1.5 times the length of the critical path.
What it launched against
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom launched on 12 May 2023, within three weeks of Dead Island 2, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, System Shock and Street Fighter 6. It reviewed better than all of them. It arrived 6 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Dead Island 2, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, System Shock, Street Fighter 6.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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