Every Zelda Game, Ranked by Fans
Rank all 20 mainline Legend of Zelda games: Ocarina of Time vs Breath of the Wild, Majora's Mask vs Tears of the Kingdom, A Link to the Past and more. Your first pick is right here. No sign-up.
Size
Four Swords2002 · Game Boy Advance
Four Swords Adventures2004 · GameCube
Tap a poster to make your pick. Crowd numbers appear after you choose.
How the community ranks them
Results appear here as people finish brackets. Each pick feeds the head-to-head numbers, so the first players decide where all 20 start.
How the Zelda Games bracket works
This Zelda game ranking is played, not dragged into rows. You get one matchup at a time — The Legend of Zelda or Zelda II: The Adventure of Link? A Link to the Past or Link's Awakening? — and after 15 picks the bracket has a champion, with everything else placed by how far it got. Nobody can hold 20 games in their head at once, but everybody can answer "this one" — so the order you end up with is one you will actually stand behind.
This bracket runs 4 rounds at the default 16-slot size (Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final), drawn from a pool of 20 games. Everyone gets the same draw on a given day, so you can compare runs with friends; New draw gives you a genuinely different bracket rather than the same path twice. You can also play it at 8 or 20 slots for a shorter or longer run.
15 picks, 4 rounds
- Round of 168 matchups
- Quarterfinals4 matchups
- Semifinals2 matchups
- Final1 matchup
Roughly 1-2 minutes start to finish at the default size.
All 20 entrants
All 20 entrants are listed below, including The Legend of Zelda, Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, A Link to the Past and Link's Awakening.
- The Legend of Zelda1986 · NES
- Zelda II: The Adventure of Link1987 · NES
- A Link to the Past1991 · SNES
- Link's Awakening1993 · Game Boy
- Ocarina of Time1998 · Nintendo 64
- Majora's Mask2000 · Nintendo 64
- Oracle of Seasons & Oracle of Ages2001 · Game Boy Color
- Four Swords2002 · Game Boy Advance
- The Wind Waker2002 · GameCube
- Four Swords Adventures2004 · GameCube
- The Minish Cap2004 · Game Boy Advance
- Twilight Princess2006 · Wii / GameCube
- Phantom Hourglass2007 · Nintendo DS
- Spirit Tracks2009 · Nintendo DS
- Skyward Sword2011 · Wii
- A Link Between Worlds2013 · Nintendo 3DS
- Tri Force Heroes2015 · Nintendo 3DS
- Breath of the Wild2017 · Switch / Wii U
- Tears of the Kingdom2023 · Switch
- Echoes of Wisdom2024 · Switch
Tier list instead?
Load all 20 into the tier list maker and sort them into S through F yourself: same entrants, no matchups.
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Open the bracket makerGetting a ranking you actually agree with
- Pick the game you would rather replay this weekend, not the one that was most important when it came out.
- Start at 16 slots. If the result feels too obvious, replay at 20 so more of the 20 games make the field.
- If a matchup genuinely splits you, undo and replay it — a coin-flip pick in round one distorts everything below it.
Questions people ask
How many games are in the Zelda Games bracket?
The pool holds 20 games. A default run uses 16 of them and takes 15 picks across 4 rounds: Round of 16, Quarterfinals, Semifinals, Final. Other field sizes are available too — 8, 16, 20 slots.
Which games are included?
The Legend of Zelda, Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, A Link to the Past, Link's Awakening, Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask, Oracle of Seasons & Oracle of Ages, Four Swords, The Wind Waker, Four Swords Adventures, The Minish Cap and Twilight Princess, plus 8 more. Every entrant is listed further down this page with its artwork.
How long does the Zelda Games bracket take?
About 1-2 minutes — 15 choices at the default size, or 7 if you drop to an 8-slot bracket. There is no sign-up, and your progress is saved on this device after every pick.
Is this a zelda games tier list or a ranking?
Both are here, and the bracket is closer to a tier list than it looks. It ends with a champion, a runner-up and then every other game grouped by the round it went out in — which is exactly a set of tiers, decided by 15 direct comparisons rather than by your first guess at a layout. What it deliberately does not do is claim a precise gap between two games that never met. If you would rather place the games into S through F rows yourself, the tier list maker loads all 20 of them at bracketranker.com/tier-list-maker.
Is there a community zelda games ranking?
Every completed bracket feeds the Zelda Games community results page, which aggregates win rates across all plays and tracks how often each of the 20 entrants takes the title. It updates continuously, so it moves as more people play.
Can I change which games are included?
Use the bracket maker: add your own games, name it, and share the link so other people play the same field. That is the route to take when this pool of 20 is missing something you would have picked, or when you want a version scoped to one era, label or franchise.