Zelda Similar Games: 40 Alternatives for PS4, PS5, Switch & Xbox

Until the release of the nearest Zelda offshoot, Breath of the Wild 2, it probably still takes a while. If you want to distribute the time with other, Zelda-like games, then you should take a look at this list: We make you alternatives for PS4, PS5, Xbox Series X / S, Xbox One and Switch, left Adventures resemble playfully. So make yourself showing a mix of fighting, puzzles and exploring.

Since new Zelda Likes appear again and announced, we update this article regularly.

Update on July 28 2021 : Eastward and other alternatives added.

Kena: Bridge of Spirits

• Release : 24 August 2021
• Platforms : PS5, PS4
• Regular Price: 39,99 Euro

It's about it : In Kena: Bridge of Spirits we are a guide for lost souls. Together with the little beings "Reds" we put ourselves against a dark power. The game impresses with a wonderful style reminiscent of Pixar movies.

Playful, however, it goes in one direction, which is especially inspired by Zelda fans. Because we control Kena through explorable environments, solve puzzles using the reds and combat the opponents with fast attacks.

OKami HD

• Release: 12 . December 2017
• Platforms: PS4, Xbox One, Switch (& PC)
• Regular price: 19,99 Euro

It's about it: in Okami HD, the original optically-polished new edition of the original appeared in 2008, we slip into the fur of the wolf deity Amaterasu and free a Japanese fantasy rich from a dark threat.

However, this is not a mere Zelda clone, but an action adventure, which is due to the mix of Zelda established Mix from fighting, exploring and puzzling, but it comes with its own spin.

The unusual style of Okami goes back to the Japanese color wood section, and the title is also artistic at a playful level. Here we fight and puzzle with a brush, whereby we learn in the course of the story of a wide variety of brush techniques.

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Blossom Tales

• Release: 21.12.2017 (Switch)
• Platforms: Switch (& PC)
• Regular Price: 14,99

Sword, Shield, Bow, Dungeons and Copff Feet - Blossom Tales: The Sleeping King is playfully focused on the Zelda games from old Snes and Game Boy times. Who played a link to the past, the original Link's Awakening and Co., who is hereby indulge in good nostalgia.

It's about it: In the role of Hero's Lily, we will be added to the ranks of the Rieter's knights and help them to flop a nasty witch. For this we fight and puzzle through Zelda-typical dungeons to find three legendary ingredients that will help us with our project.

Chicory: a colorful tale

• Release: 12.06.2021
• Platforms: PS5, PS4 (& PC)
• Regular Price: 19.99

It's about it: You play a bitch or a dog, which keeps clean as a janitor * in the tower of the most important person of the country. Because there is Chicory, which ensures as a holder of the brush ensures that the world is filled with colors. But a nasty power crashes Chicory in depression and henceforth you have to swing the brush and turn the places back.

The entire game runs from a typical 2D Zelda view. Her explores villages, solves puzzle, exploring dungeons and fights bosses. Instead of having a sword, however, you do that with a brush that you control over the right analog stick. In the coop, the other person gets the opportunity to control another brush.

Darksiders Warmastered Edition

• Release: 22 . November 2016 (PS4, Xbox One), April 2, 2019 (Switch)
• Platforms: PS4, Xbox One, Switch (& PC)
• Regular price: 19,99 Euro

That's why it's about: In Darksiders we rid as a war, one of the four apocalyptic riders, a final time world of demons, but also attack against the powers of heaven.

The Darksiders Warmastered Edition is a graphically advantaged Remastered version for current consoles.

In many cases, Darksiders are referred to as "Zelda for Adults" and that's pretty good. Similar to left adventures, we have to find certain items to help. We discover chests with keys and fight nasty end bosses. What Darksiders concretely do so well to read her in the special of colleague Tobi.

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• Release: 26 . September 2017
• Platforms: PS4, Xbox One, Switch (& PC)
• Regular price: 19,99 Euro

It's about it: HOB comes completely without dialogues. The plot is told alone about interaction with the mysterious planet, where we find ourselves in the role of a mysterious, sexless figurine.

At a playful level, everything - all of Zelda-typical - goes out to open another way to get to before inaccessible places and free the world from the pink glibber and the nasty creatures coming with him. Puzzles, we jump and fight in ISO view through the landscape.

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Moonlighter

• Release: 29 . May 2018
• Platforms: PS4, Xbox One, Switch (& PC)
• Regular price: 19,99 Euro

That's why it's about: Hero wants to be a hero and plunges herself caterpillarly in procedural dungeons and clops monsters as well as nasty boss opponents.

In the heart, however, does not only want adventurers, but primarily dealers. The special feature of Moonlighter? We own a shop in our village and sell items there during the day, which weighth at night from Dungeons. We are always facing an important decision: Which goods do we bleper and which we raise up to make us better weapons and armor?

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MINIT

• Release: 3 . April 2018
• Platforms: PS4, Xbox One, Switch, iOS, Android (& PC)
• Regular price: 9,99 Euro

That's why it's about: In Best Zelda-Manier, we beat in 2D action adventure minit bushes, trees and opponents equally to small wood, while we always have to solve small object and environmental tubes, and in between, as well as shattered as charming characters.

The special thing? After only 60 seconds our digital life ends and we start the game again. Collected coins, with which we use additional life energy or important objects, we may keep. Gradually, minute for a minute, we open ourselves another piece of the game world.

More information about the game: Minit in the test

Oceanhorn - Monster of Uncharted Seas

• Release: 7 . September 2016
• Platforms: PS4, Xbox One, Switch, iOS (& PC)
• Regular Price: 14,99 Euro

It's about it: In Oceanhorn we sail in the gap of a little boy in a wooden boat over the ocean of island to island to banish the evil from the world - Wind WAKER greetings!

As his model, Oceanhorn puts on the elements fighting, exploration and puzzles, and we are constantly gaining new equipment with which we can reach previously unattainable areas.

Each of the total of 14 islands also carries various additional orders, which provide us with success EP, and we can make ourselves looking for hidden extras. So there is a lot to do!

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Anodyne

• Release: 19 . September 2019 (PS4), February 28, 2019 (Switch)
• Platforms: PS4, Switch (PC & iOS)
• Regular price: 9,99 Euro

That's why it's about: Anodyne takes the plays of the 16-bit era as a model and explore a gloomy, surreal fantasy world full of monsters and puzzles as a white-haired hero "Young".

As classic as it sounds, Anodyne then is not: Although the title uses Zelda basic elements, but brings many my own ideas. Instead of sword, we swing here, for example, a broom that we use for cracking puzzles. So we start about dust and build us a boat.

Swords of Ditto

• Release: 24 . April 2018
• Platforms: PS4, Switch (& PC)
• Regular Price: 14,99 Euro

It's about it: The Swords of Ditto is a visually very charming action adventure in the footsteps of The Legend of Zelda, in which we have to hunt for a nasty witch. In terms of puzzle design (much too easy!) While the game does not come up to his source of inspiration, but promises entertaining fun.

On one of the biggest criticisms, developer OneBITBeyond has now even heard: A free update has removed the Permadeath feature, which plays the adventure much more relaxed.

ITTLE DEW 2+

• Release: 15 . November 2016
• Platforms: PS4, Xbox One, **** Switch (& PC)
• Regular Price: 29,99 Euro

And where we are already in colorful and cuddly - ITTLE DEW 2+ for Nintendo Switch must of course be called the same breath.

That's why it's time: In the Action Adventure of the Swedish Studio Ludosity, we as Heroin Ittle together with our companion tipsia on an island and must find eight flow parts to leave them again.

Main character stranded on island, must see eight items ... exactly! We already know this concept from Link's Awakening, and Itle Dew 2 is in a charming action adventure in small format.

Blue Fire

• Release : February 4, 2021 (Switch), June 25 (PS4, Xbox One)
• Platforms : Switch, PS4, Xbox One

That's why it's : In Blue Fire we travel through the abandoned kingdom of Penumbra. There we cover the secrets of the long-forgotten country. For this we explore temples and complete the Plattformer deposits. For this, the main character has a sword at hand. With this we swing through opponents and nasty bosses. The whole mix of the game reminds greatly strongly at The Legend of Zelda.

Tunic

• Release : 2021
• Platforms : Xbox One, Xbox Series X / S (Launch Exclusive)

It's about it : Tunic is an action adventure in the style of 2D-Zelda games. We control a small fox from the isometric view through a colorful fantasy world. There we fight opponents, find new items to achieve new areas and buy new weapons with collected money.

Baldo

• Release : 2021
• Platforms : Switch (Launch Exclusive), PS4, Xbox One

That's why it's time: The seemingly peaceful world from Baldo is hit at night of fiesem black mucus with sharp teeth. Even apart from these unwanted visitors seems to be a lot in the universe. Therefore, as a lovable hero, we explore the environment, solve switch puzzles, soft drops and fight everything that makes us in the way.

Baldo captivates next to the Zelda gameplay especially with his style. Because the whole game is held in the animation look of the famous studio Ghibli. So just anime fans are also visually picked up here.

Eastward

• Release : 2021
• Platforms : Switch

This is what: Eastward is an adventure game with RPG elements playing in a detailed, decaying world in which society begins to collapse, while the human population shrinks to an all-time low. As the world falls around, you play as a miner John, who has to lead a mysterious girl named Sam through aspiring cities inhabited by strange monsters and stranger people!

More Zelda alternatives

• Kamiko (PS4, Xbox One, Switch)
• Hyper Light Drifter (PS4, Xbox One, Switch)
• Yonder (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One)
• Decay of Logos (PS4, Xbox One, Switch)
• Evoland (PS4, Xbox One, Switch)
• Evoland 2 (PS4, Xbox One, Switch)
• Ghost of a Tale (PS4, Xbox One, Switch)
• Summer in Mara (PS4, Xbox One, Switch)
• Eldest Souls (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox Series X / S, Xbox One)
• Alba: A wildlife adventure (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox Series X / S, Xbox One)
• The Patles (PS4, PS5)
• Solar Ash (PS4, PS5)
• Genshin Impact (PS4, PS5, Switch)
• Garden Story (Switch)
• Nobody Saves the World (Xbox Series X / S, Xbox One)
• Anuchard (Xbox Series X / S, Xbox One)
• Death's Door (Xbox Series X / S, Xbox One)
• Arietta of Spirits (PS4, Switch, Xbox One)
• Archvale (Switch)
• Demon Turf (PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox Series X / S, Xbox One)
• GROW: Song of the Egree (PS4, Switch, Xbox One)
• The girl from Arkanya (PS5, PS4, Switch, Xbox One)
• Rogue Heroes: Ruin of Tasos (Switch)
• Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion (Switch)

Which Zelda alternatives fall for you and what is your opinion the best alternative?