One of Nintendo’s most influential Zelda adventures is heading to Nintendo Switch 2, positioning itself as the big single player action adventure in the platform’s first wave. It’s the sort of release that competes with modern open world epics on scope and atmosphere, but keeps Nintendo’s tighter dungeon structure, puzzle solving and story beats at the centre.

Who is this for?

If you missed it the first time, this is a landmark mix of exploration, combat and clever item based progression, with dungeons that still set the pace for the genre. If you played it years ago, it’s the kind of game that rewards a return run, partly for its pacing and partly for the way its world and music land differently as an adult. As a pre order, it’s one to bookmark if you want a known quantity rather than taking a punt on a new IP at launch.

  • Genre: action adventure with puzzle heavy dungeons and a large overworld to explore
  • Play style: primarily single player, story led progression