The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages

The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages is one of two Zelda titles released for the Game Boy Color, the other being Oracle of Seasons. The game retain many gameplay elements from Link's Awakening such as the…

95 27 February 2001

Adventure Puzzle Action

The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages is an adventure developed by Capcom Production Studio 1, released 27 February 2001 on Nintendo 3DS and Game Boy Color.

Verified 29 Sep 2026 Sources: IGDB , Wikipedia

What The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages is

The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages is an adventure game developed by Capcom Production Studio 1 and released in 2001. It was published by Gradiente. It is available on Nintendo 3DS and Game Boy Color.

The premise, in the publisher's words

A pall of Darkness has fallen over the land of Labrynna. The Sorceress of Shadows has captured the Oracle of Ages and is using her power to do evil. Link has been summoned to help and must travel back and forth in time to stop the Sorceress of Shadows and return Labrynna to its former glory.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

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

Where it sits in the The Legend of Zelda series

The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages is the 21st of 133 entries we hold in the The Legend of Zelda series. The next entry was Super Smash Bros. Melee in 2001. Its critic score of 95 is 9 points above 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: Oracle of Ages holds a critic score of 95 out of 100. That places it above 98% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2001 averaged 72, so it scored 23 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 90, across 176 votes.

How long it takes, and what that costs

A full completion run takes around 15 hrs.

What it launched against

The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages launched on 27 February 2001, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons, Severance: Blade of Darkness, Pro Evolution Soccer and Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns. It reviewed better than all of them.

Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons, Severance: Blade of Darkness, Pro Evolution Soccer, Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns.

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