Games like The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword
Closest overall match: The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (★ 4.4). Highest rated: The Last Of Us at ★ 4.5. Quickest to finish: Perfect Dark at about 10 hours.
We compared The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword against every game in our catalog on shared tags, genre, rating, playtime and release era, and these 10 came closest. What ties them together most: exclusive.
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79%
1. The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
Shares exclusive; same developer; about 7h shorter; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 4.4
- Metacritic
- 91
- Playtime
- 26h
- Finish rate
- 88%
- Shared genres
- 3
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72%
2. The Last Of Us
Shares exclusive; rated 0.4 higher; about 18h shorter; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2013
- Rating
- ★ 4.5
- Metacritic
- 95
- Playtime
- 15h
- Finish rate
- 93%
- Shared genres
- 3
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64%
3. Gears of War 3
Shares exclusive; about 17h shorter; same release year.
- Year
- 2011
- Rating
- ★ 4.2
- Metacritic
- 91
- Playtime
- 16h
- Finish rate
- 89%
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63%
4. Halo: Reach
Shares exclusive; about 22h shorter; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2010
- Rating
- ★ 4.3
- Metacritic
- 91
- Playtime
- 11h
- Finish rate
- 86%
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63%
5. Halo 4
Shares exclusive; rated 0.3 lower; about 42h longer; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2012
- Rating
- ★ 3.8
- Metacritic
- 86
- Playtime
- 75h
- Finish rate
- 86%
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62%
6. Gears of War 2
Shares exclusive; about 11h shorter.
- Year
- 2008
- Rating
- ★ 4.3
- Metacritic
- 93
- Playtime
- 22h
- Finish rate
- 91%
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62%
7. James Cameron's AVATAR: The Game
Shares exclusive; rated 1.2 lower; about 15h shorter; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2009
- Rating
- ★ 2.9
- Metacritic
- 60
- Playtime
- 18h
- Finish rate
- 59%
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61%
8. Lost Odyssey
Shares exclusive; about 22h shorter.
- Year
- 2007
- Rating
- ★ 4.1
- Metacritic
- 78
- Playtime
- 11h
- Finish rate
- 52%
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61%
9. Viva Piñata
Shares exclusive; rated 0.6 lower.
- Year
- 2007
- Rating
- ★ 3.6
- Metacritic
- 81
- Playtime
- 34h
- Finish rate
- 38%
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61%
10. Perfect Dark
Shares exclusive; about 23h shorter.
- Year
- 2000
- Rating
- ★ 4.0
- Metacritic
- 97
- Playtime
- 10h
- Finish rate
- 56%
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Questions people ask
What is the best game like The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword?
On our similarity model, The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds is the closest match to The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword — shares exclusive; same developer; about 7h shorter; released within 2 years.
Which game like The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword is rated highest?
The Last Of Us holds the highest player rating in this list at 4.5/5 from 3,418 players.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword 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.