The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (2019) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening

As Link, you awaken in a strange land away from Hyrule, where animals talk and monsters roam. To uncover the truth behind your whereabouts and rouse the legendary Wind Fish, explore Koholint Island and all its…

87 20 September 2019

What The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening is

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening is an adventure game developed by Grezzo and released in 2019. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo Switch 2 and Nintendo Switch. It runs on Unreal Engine 4.

The premise, in the publisher's words

After the events of A Link to the Past, the hero Link travels by ship to other countries to train for further threats. After being attacked at sea, Link's ship sinks and he finds himself stranded on Koholint Island. He awakens to see a beautiful woman looking down at him and soon learns the island has a giant egg on top of a mountain that the Wind Fish inhabits deep inside. Link is told to awaken the wind fish and all will be answered, so he sets out on another quest.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

Where it sits in the The Legend of Zelda series

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening is the 109th of 133 entries we hold in the The Legend of Zelda series. The next entry was Cadence of Hyrule: Crypt of the NecroDancer Featuring the Legend of Zelda - Octavo's Ode in 2019. Its critic score of 87 is almost exactly the series average of 86. The highest-rated entry is The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past at 100.

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How it was received

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening holds a critic score of 87 out of 100. That places it above 88% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 18 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 85, across 309 votes.

What it launched against

The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening launched on 20 September 2019, within three weeks of Borderlands 3, GreedFall, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (2019) and Gears 5. It reviewed better than 2 of the 4. It arrived 2 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Borderlands 3, GreedFall, The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening (2019), Gears 5.

Cheats and codes

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Official trailer