6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.
Release Date: 10/11/2021, updated in 2022
Platforms: PC, PS4, Stadia, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Open World
Wavetale is a surfing and jumping adventure in a world of sunken cities, dangerous water and oppressive fog. You play as Sigrid, a young girl who works to restore the decaying archipelago and befriends a mysterious shadow that lets her walk on water....
Release Date: 27/08/2020
Platforms: Apple TV, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
The Last Campfire, from the same developer as Lost Winds, is an adventure about Ember who is searching for meaning and a way home. As you travel you take a flame with you to the world, lighting torches, bringing life to...
Release Date: 03/03/2017
Platforms: Switch and Wii U
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon, Day and Night, Open World and Weather
The Legend of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild departs from the previous Zelda formula with the scale and depth of its world. You walk, fly, ride and climb your way through a landscape that varies in climate, terrain, inhabitants and vegetation. Weather and...
Release Date: 23/11/2011, updated in 2021
Platforms: Switch, Wii and Wii U
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night and Open World
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword is an adventure game in the Zelda series. You play Link and navigate the floating island of Skyloft before diving down to the land below it. While the island locations and flight drew from Wind Waker, the combat and...
Release Date: 29/10/2013
Platforms: PS3, PS4, Switch, Wii U, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night, Open World and Weather
Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag is an action-adventure game set in a fictional telling of real-world events around the 18th Century Caribbean during the Golden Age of Piracy. You run, jump, climb, explore and fight as a notorious Welsh pirate Edward...
Release Date: 18/07/2017, updated in 2018
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon, Day and Night and Open World
Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles is an adventure where you explore a world seeking out and collecting magical creatures, known as sprites, to banish an ominous shroud known as the Murk. As you do this, you make your way in the world, farming,...
30 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.
Release Date: 01/10/2011, updated in 2018
Platforms: Switch and Wii
Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Open World
Go Vacation is a resort exploration game where 50 mini-games can be discovered and played. The mini-golf, skating, surfing, volleyball, car racing, tennis and other games use the Wii and Switch motion-sensitive controllers and are simple fun for...
Release Date: 21/11/2019, updated in 2020
Platforms: PC, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Blocks and Open World
The Touryst is a puzzle based adventure, where you seek to unlock the mysteries of an archipelago of sun-drenched islands. That's if you want to of course, because the adventure can wait if you'd rather soak up the sun and make the most of your time...
Release Date: 03/12/2020
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
Immortals Fenyx Rising is a mythical adventure game where you play Fenyx, exploring the huge open world, solving puzzles and fighting evil fantasy creatures. Fenyx is a newly winged demigod, who was prophesied to be the one to save the Greek Gods' home...
Release Date: 28/10/2015, updated in 2019
Platforms: Android, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Agent A: A Puzzle In Disguise is a puzzle game where you infiltrate a spy hideaway to stop an evil plan. Each location is full of retro futuristic contraptions, hidden gizmos, gadgets and clever logic based puzzles.
Release Date: 24/02/2017, updated in 2020
Platforms: Android, Apple TV, Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon and Hand-Made
Legend of Skyfish is a puzzle exploration game where you head into a dangerous land, hopping from island to island, solving puzzles and battling enemies. Each arcade-style level is a chance to put your unusual weapon to use -- for fighting but also for...
Release Date: 08/07/2021
Platforms: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Hand-Made
Boomerang X is a shooting platform game where you explore worlds and fight enemies with a boomerang-like shuriken weapon. Unusually, you can warp to your boomerang once thrown meaning you can slice, fly, and blast through arenas swarming with evil...
Release Date: 04/12/2020, updated in 2022
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon, Day and Night and Open World
Submerged: Hidden Depths is an adventure game where you boat, climb and explore the ruins of a sunken world. With light puzzle solving and no combat you discover a drowned city, crumbling skyscrapers and deserted villages. It's the sequel to the first...
Release Date: 14/12/2022
Platforms: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Open World
Lil Gator Game is an adventure set on an island playground where a young brother invents exciting fantasy adventures to try and get his older sister to play like they used to. You guide your waddling gator's unusual movement to help them explore the...
Release Date: 01/01/1999, updated in 2019
Platforms: Game Boy and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Hand-Made and Open World
The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening is an adventure-puzzle game in the Zelda series and universe. A remake of the 1993 Game Boy game of the same name, this one is set on Koholint Island and follows Link after he is stranded and must find a way back to...
Release Date: 22/11/2013
Platforms: 3DS and 2DS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Hand-Made and Open World
The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds is an action-adventure game in the Zelda series. It's the seventeenth game and spiritual successor to the 1991 game The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. A more open adventure with a novel world-jumping...
Release Date: 21/06/2021, updated in 2022
Platforms: Mac, PC and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Phantom Abyss is a running and jumping game where you charge through temples to get to the exit. Your only tool is a whip that interacts with objects and can propel you forward. Along the way are numerous traps and difficult jumps to avoid. There are...
Release Date: 27/09/2018, updated in 2019
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Wandersong is an adventure where you play a bard on a quest to gather parts of a song. Uniquely, you interact with the environment and inhabitants by singing with one of the direction sticks. It stands out not only for its start of love and loss, but...
Release Date: 27/09/2020
Platforms: Android, PC, PS4 and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Open World
Genshin Impact is a role-playing adventure set in a fantastical open world you explore by walking, climbing, swimming and gliding as necessary. Like the Zelda games, you can collect items, and craft new weapons. However, in this game to create a party...
Release Date: 21/04/2015, updated in 2020
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4 and Xbox One
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night, Open World and Weather
Stranded Deep is a survival game set in the Pacific Ocean. Taking a cue from films like Cast Away, you survive a plane crash and face life-threatening scenarios in a large open world. As the weather and time of day changes with the hours, you explore...
Release Date: 21/11/1991
Platforms: GBA, Switch, Wii and Wii U
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Open World and Pixels
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is an adventure game in a long "Zelda" series. Like the other games, you play Link, who must defeat an evil force in the land of Hyrule. You do this by exploring the world, killing spawning enemies and finding a...
Release Date: 26/05/2022
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon, Day and Night and Open World
My Time at Sandrock is a life-simulating role-play game where you restore a run down town. It's set in the same wholesome yet post-apocalyptic world as My Time at Portia. You start by working as a builder, but soon...
Release Date: 14/11/2013
Platforms: Android, Apple TV, Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
Oceanhorn is an adventure game series that brings Zelda-style exploration, battling and dungeon-solving to non-Nintendo platforms. You play as a boy on a quest to find his lost father and defeat the living fortress, Oceanhorn. You explore dungeons,...
Release Date: 20/07/2021
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
Death's Door is a noir adventure game where you play a crow whose job it is to reap the souls of the dead. When one goes missing you must fight, run and jump through a fantasy world to get it back. It's a simple combat game at heart, but the unusual...
Release Date: 19/11/2006, updated in 2016
Platforms: GameCube, Wii and Wii U
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is an adventure game in the Zelda series. As with the other games, you play Link, who must prevent Hyrule from being engulfed by corruption from a parallel dimension. Unlike other Zelda games, you can take the form...
Release Date: 13/06/2019
Platforms: Switch
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Cadence of Hyrule is a Zelda-infused version of a popular rhythm-action indie game called Crypt of the NecroDancer. Like the original, you go on an adventure viewed from above and progress by moving, attacking and dodging in time with the music.
Release Date: 22/04/2021, updated in 2023
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion is an action role-play game where you play a Turnip working hard to pay off a massive tax bill to Mayor Onion. The setup soon gives way to a series of Zelda-style quests, dungeons and puzzles that earn new items and...
Release Date: 25/02/2016
Platforms: Android and iOS
Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World
Assassin's Creed Identity is an action-adventure video game that takes the city exploration, combat and narrative adventure to mobile devices. Set during the Italian Renaissance, you explore Rome, Firenze, and Monteriggioni as one of four different...
Release Date: 12/05/2023
Platforms: Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon, Day and Night, Open World and Weather
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom is the latest in the long series of Zelda adventure games. As well as exploring Hyrule you can also take to the skies in an expanded world full of secrets.
Release Date: 27/08/2021, updated in 2022
Platforms: Apple TV, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Baldo: The Guardian Owls is an adventure into a magical world. You explore intricately puzzling dungeons, discover new towns, fight ferocious foes and locate hidden temples. It's a game that wants you to discover things for yourself rather than hold...
Release Date: 14/01/2021
Platforms: Apple TV, Mac, PC, Wii U, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
Down in Bermuda is a puzzle game where you are stranded on a set of interconnected islands. You push, pull and manipulate objects to solve puzzles and explore the world. Each one you complete brings you closer to getting back home.
Release Date: 12/05/2008, updated in 2016
Platforms: PC, Wii and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
LostWinds is a running and jumping video game with a difference. As well as controlling a young boy named Toku you also control the wind. On the Wii, you do this by gesturing with the Wii Remote controller, on iOS you draw the direction on the screen. A...
Release Date: 01/01/2017
Platforms: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 2+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Moonlite is a narrative experience for small children. It combines traditional storybooks with your smartphone light to create projected pictures with sounds and interactions.
Release Date: 21/12/2022
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon, Day and Night and Weather
Sail Forth is a sailing simulation where you take charge of a ship in a vast ocean whose ancient depths have swallowed the key to the mysterious past. You play by working with the wind and sails to explore, take on tasks, fight pirates and slowly...
Release Date: 25/05/2022
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Blocks
Sonority is a fantasy adventure where you progress by solving musical puzzles. You help Esther explore a lost world to collect musical notes and playing arrangements next to blocks to unlock the way forward. What's clever is the connection between the...
Release Date: 12/10/2017
Platforms: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Grid
Yono and the Celestial Elephant is an adventure puzzle game about helping a young elephant restore order to the world. You explore the world and help the characters you meet by solving puzzles going on treasure hunts and occasionally taking on some...
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