Games like The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
Closest overall match: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (★ 4.1). Highest rated: Animal Crossing: New Leaf at ★ 4.4. Quickest to finish: Tearaway at about 7 hours.
We compared The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds against every game in our catalog on shared tags, genre, rating, playtime and release era, and these 12 came closest. What ties them together most: exclusive and true exclusive.
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79%
1. The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Shares exclusive; same developer; about 7h longer; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2011
- Rating
- ★ 4.1
- Metacritic
- 93
- Playtime
- 33h
- Finish rate
- 76%
- Shared genres
- 3
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79%
2. Animal Crossing: New Leaf
Shares true exclusive and exclusive; same developer; about 11h longer; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 4.4
- Metacritic
- 88
- Playtime
- 37h
- Finish rate
- 61%
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78%
3. Super Mario 3D Land
Shares true exclusive and exclusive; same developer; about 9h shorter; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2011
- Rating
- ★ 4.2
- Metacritic
- 90
- Playtime
- 17h
- Finish rate
- 89%
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77%
4. Astro Bot Rescue Mission
Shares true exclusive and exclusive; about 26h shorter.
- Year
- 2018
- Rating
- ★ 4.2
- Metacritic
- 90
- Finish rate
- 69%
- Shared genres
- 3
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76%
5. Mario Kart Wii
Shares true exclusive and exclusive; same developer; about 14h shorter.
- Year
- 2008
- Rating
- ★ 4.3
- Metacritic
- 82
- Playtime
- 12h
- Finish rate
- 79%
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75%
6. Super Mario Sunshine
Shares true exclusive and exclusive; same developer; about 26h shorter.
- Year
- 2002
- Rating
- ★ 4.3
- Metacritic
- 92
- Finish rate
- 71%
- Shared genres
- 3
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74%
7. Tomodachi Life
Shares true exclusive and exclusive; same developer; rated 0.5 lower; about 26h shorter; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 3.9
- Metacritic
- 71
- Finish rate
- 54%
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73%
8. Tearaway
Shares true exclusive and exclusive; about 19h shorter; same release year.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 4.2
- Metacritic
- 87
- Playtime
- 7h
- Finish rate
- 79%
- Shared genres
- 3
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72%
9. inFAMOUS 2
Shares true exclusive and exclusive; about 13h shorter; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2011
- Rating
- ★ 4.1
- Metacritic
- 83
- Playtime
- 13h
- Finish rate
- 86%
- Shared genres
- 3
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72%
10. Pokémon X, Y
Shares true exclusive and exclusive; rated 0.4 lower; about 58h longer; same release year.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 3.9
- Metacritic
- 88
- Playtime
- 84h
- Finish rate
- 88%
- Shared genres
- 3
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72%
11. Luigi's Mansion 3
Shares true exclusive and exclusive; same developer; about 26h shorter.
- Year
- 2019
- Rating
- ★ 4.3
- Metacritic
- 86
- Finish rate
- 83%
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72%
12. Uncharted: Golden Abyss
Shares true exclusive and exclusive; rated 0.6 lower; about 10h shorter; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2011
- Rating
- ★ 3.8
- Metacritic
- 80
- Playtime
- 16h
- Finish rate
- 83%
- Shared genres
- 3
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds?
On our similarity model, The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword is the closest match to The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds — shares exclusive; same developer; about 7h longer; released within 2 years.
Which game like The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds is rated highest?
Animal Crossing: New Leaf holds the highest player rating in this list at 4.4/5 from 289 players.
Are there games like The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds on Nintendo Switch?
Yes — we found 8 games like The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds on Nintendo Switch. See the dedicated list.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds 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.
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