Games like Pokémon Gold, Silver on Nintendo Switch
Closest overall match: The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap (★ 4.4). Quickest to finish: Dicey Dungeons at about 4 hours.
Looking for something like Pokémon Gold, Silver? Our model ranked 5 games by how much they share with it. What ties them together most: Singleplayer.
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74%
1. The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap
Shares Singleplayer; about 876h shorter.
- Year
- 2004
- Rating
- ★ 4.4
- Playtime
- 24h
- Finish rate
- 85%
- Shared genres
- RPG
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72%
2. The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Shares Singleplayer; about 840h shorter.
- Year
- 2006
- Rating
- ★ 4.4
- Playtime
- 60h
- Finish rate
- 81%
- Shared genres
- RPG
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70%
3. The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (1998)
Shares Singleplayer; about 893h shorter; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 1998
- Rating
- ★ 4.4
- Metacritic
- 99
- Playtime
- 7h
- Finish rate
- 81%
- Shared genres
- RPG
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57%
4. Dicey Dungeons
Shares Singleplayer; about 896h shorter.
- Year
- 2019
- Rating
- ★ 4.1
- Metacritic
- 89
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 48%
- Shared genres
- RPG
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55%
5. Griftlands
Shares Singleplayer; rated 0.5 lower; about 896h shorter.
- Year
- 2019
- Rating
- ★ 3.9
- Metacritic
- 84
- Playtime
- 4h
- Finish rate
- 50%
- Shared genres
- RPG
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like Pokémon Gold, Silver on Nintendo Switch?
On our similarity model, The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap is the closest match to Pokémon Gold, Silver on Nintendo Switch — shares Singleplayer; about 876h shorter.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against Pokémon Gold, Silver on five signals: weighted tag overlap (rare tags count more), genre overlap, platform family overlap, rating and playtime proximity, and release era. The list is recomputed nightly as ratings and new releases change.
Base game data via RAWG.