The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
An epic adventure across the land and skies of Hyrule awaits in The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom for Nintendo Switch. The adventure is yours to create in a world fueled by your imagination. In this sequel to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, you'll decide your own path through the sprawling landscapes of Hyrule and the mysterious islands floating in the vast skies above. Can you harness the power of Link's new abilities to fight back against the malevolent forces that threaten the kingdom?
A sequel that should've felt like DLC and instead feels like an engineering degree with a sword.Kit · Sadkitty Games
Loved
- Ultrahand building is endlessly creative
- The Depths are a brilliant second world
- Runs on hardware that shouldn't handle it
Not so much
- Surface map feels familiar if you played BotW
- Menu juggling for fusing gets tedious
Play it if tinkerers and explorers who want to solve every problem their own way.
Skip it if players who want a tight, linear Zelda with classic dungeons.
No cheat codes
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom doesn't have cheat codes. The tips and secrets below are the next best thing.
Play it better
- Fuse a Keese Eyeball to an arrow for homing shots that track flying enemies and weak points.
- Use Recall on falling rock chunks from the sky to ride them back up to the islands.
- Every shrine on the surface has a matching Lightroot in the Depths directly below it, with the name spelled backwards. Light them to map the underworld.
- Gloom damage cuts your max hearts; cook with Sundelions or rest to restore them.
- Fuse high-damage monster horns to weak sticks; the horn does most of the work, so don't hoard your fancy weapons.
- Unlock Autobuild at the Construct Factory in the Depths to rebuild saved vehicles from scratch instantly.
- Ascend lets you swim up through any ceiling, which is the fastest way out of caves and many tight spots.
Hidden in plain sight
Tap a secret to reveal it.
Trivia
- It sold over 10 million copies in its first three days.
- The game was delayed twice, and Nintendo said the extra time went into polishing its physics systems.
- A Nintendo Switch 2 Edition in 2025 added a sharper image, higher frame rate and a companion app called Zelda Notes.
- Ultrahand grew out of the team's experiments with physics during Breath of the Wild's development.
