Category: Zelda Like

Zelda-like adventure Blossom Tales II: The Minotaur Prince, developed by Castle Pixel LLC and published by Playtonic Friends, released digitally for Nintendo Switch, Microsoft Windows, and Linux in August 2022. The sequel to 2017’s surprise hit Blossom Tales: The Sleeping King, The Minotaur Prince received positive reviews from both critics and fans, even receiving a score of 7.5 out of 10 from Zelda Dungeon. Players anxiously awaiting a physical release of Blossom Tales II: The Minotaur Prince on Nintendo Switch…

2022 was a pretty dry year for the Legend of Zelda series. We saw no new games, no new spin-offs, and — other than Majora’s Mask coming to Nintendo Switch Online — no new remakes / re-releases. But just because The Legend of Zelda was MIA this past year doesn’t mean there weren’t other games out to there if one needed to get their so-called “Zelda fix.” For me, the fantastic indie title Tunic really scratched that old-school Zelda itch…

Last Crown Warriors, a Game Boy Color game developed by Light Games, has gone live on Kickstarter. The game draws inspiration from The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening, while introducing new aspects to gameplay. As the developer notes, “With an overhead-style and controls inspired by the Zelda and Mana series, it is in fact the very first Action-Tactics game for the 8-bit handheld, a genre that combines Action-RPG combat with Real-Time Strategy elements.” The project has already exceeded its goal of €18,000…

Tunic, a Zelda-like action-adventure title developed by Andrew Shouldice and published by Finji, is coming to Nintendo Switch on September 27th! What’s even better: you can preorder Tunic today via Nintendo Switch shop. Tunic is an adorable 3D, top-down-style adventure game starring a fox with an outfit that looks like our favorite hero, Link! I personally have been playing Tunic for some time now, and seeing this game come to Switch makes me super excited for those who have not…

What’s going on friends!? This week, we are diving head first into one of our most anticipated Zelda-like games in the last several years: Blossom Tales II: The Minotaur Prince! We were big fans of the first, so we had really high hopes for this sequel, and for the most part, it delivers! Come listen as we dissect the dungeons of the game, praise the overworld, review the items, and ask about the future of the Blossom Tales series as…

When it launched back in 2017 for the Nintendo Switch, Blossom Tales: The Sleeping King quickly became one of my favorite titles of the year. There was something about it that, in a year full of reinvention and new concepts for Zelda with Breath of the Wild, felt so familiar and charming to me. Nostalgic even. This was an adventure that wore its inspiration on its sleeve and fit right in with the classic 2D, top-down Zelda games of years…

When it comes to parenting and the Zelda franchise, there are a lot of places the worlds overlap. From handing the controller over for the first time to watching their excitement at defeating Ganon. From seeing them excited to dress up as their favorite character for Halloween to drawing a picture of Link and wanting it hung up on the wall. Zelda and kids just go together in a lot of great ways. This latest item from Bumkins is featured…

Swords? Zelda-esque gameplay mixed with Toy Story? Mike Tyson’s Punch-Out!! ? Yes, The Plucky Squire seems to have it all. Presented at the Devolver Digital 2022 Showcase, Nintendo’s trailer for The Plucky Squire reveals a vibrant world with a unique mixture of 2D and 3D gameplay. Developed by All Possible Futures, the game highlights a new hero, Jot, who initially traverses unique lands in a storybook fashion. The trailer jumps out of the 2D page and takes our hero into…

We’ve got a special show for you this week as we catch up with Andrew Shouldice, the lead developer of Tunic, a game we called on this very show “maybe the best Zelda-like game we’ve ever played”. We pick Andrew’s brain about the origins of Tunic, how the project started, how he met his collaborators, the state of Canadian indie developers, what other games inspired Tunic, the manual concept and where that was born, his reaction to the positive reception,…

Last month, IGN, in partnership with Rogue Games, debuted a new game jam competition series titled Rogue Jam. Indie developers from around the world submitted unreleased games late last year for a chance at publishing opportunities with Rogue Games as well as big cash prizes, including a $500,000 USD grand prize. Rogue Jam‘s panel of judges — including former Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aimé — have spent the last few months picking the show’s top contenders, and each new…