Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment
Fight the war for ancient Hyrule! Step on to the battlefield as Princess Zelda, King Rauru, and other legendary heroes as you fight to reclaim your homeland— and live the story of Demon King Ganondorf's…
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment is an adventure developed by AAA Games Studio, released 6 November 2025 on Nintendo Switch 2.
What Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment is
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment is an adventure game developed by AAA Games Studio and released in 2025. It was published by Koei Tecmo Games. It is available on Nintendo Switch 2 only. It runs on Katana Engine.
The premise, in the publisher's words
During a desperate confrontation with the newly unsealed Demon King Ganondorf, Princess Zelda is swept away through time by the power of a mysterious secret stone, cast far into the distant past to the age when the kingdom of Hyrule was first being founded. Stranded in this ancient era, she is discovered by her own ancestors, the noble King Rauru and Queen Sonia, who take her in and vow to help her find a way back to her own time. As the days pass, Zelda lends her aid to the fledgling kingdom, assisting Rauru with his royal duties, honing her innate powers of light and time under Sonia's guidance, and venturing into the mysterious Depths that lie beneath the land, unaware of the gathering…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It supports multiplayer. Local play supports 2 players. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.
Where it sits in the The Legend of Zelda series
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment is the 131st of 133 entries we hold in the The Legend of Zelda series. The next entry was The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time in 2026. Its critic score of 82 is 4 points below the series average of 86. The highest-rated entry is The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past at 100.
How it was received
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 76% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2025 averaged 78, so it scored 4 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment launched on 6 November 2025, within three weeks of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2, ARC Raiders, The Outer Worlds 2 and Dispatch. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 8 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2, ARC Raiders, The Outer Worlds 2, Dispatch.
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