The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Player-built vehicles and fused weapons turned an open world into a physics construction kit.

Released 2023 Developer Nintendo EPD Publisher Nintendo Platform Nintendo Switch Genre Action-Adventure Era Live service & the long tail Website nintendo.co.jp ↗

Mechanics it built on

Ideas The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Weapon Durability Decay ~~1990~~Seamless Streaming Open World ~~2001~~Rigid-Body Puzzle Physics ~~2004~~In-Game Creation Suite ~~2008~~Systemic Elemental Chemistry ~~2017~~Climb-Anything Stamina Traversal ~~2017~~

The The Legend of Zelda series in this dataset

1986

The Legend of Zelda ~~1986~~

1987

Zelda II: The Adventure of Link ~~1987~~

1991

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past ~~1991~~

1998

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time ~~1998~~

2000

The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask ~~2000~~

2002

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker ~~2002~~

2006

The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess ~~2006~~

2011

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword ~~2011~~

2013

The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds ~~2013~~

2017

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild ~~2017~~

2023

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