Like Tears of the Kingdom, but shorter

Climb a mountain on a small island by any route you like, then glide back down. An afternoon, start to finish.

Keeps

Climbing anything, gliding off it and finding something at the top.

Drops

Combat, crafting and building. It's a walk with a view.

A coming-of-age ride across a desert drawn like a French comic. A hoverbike, a glider and whatever is over the next dune.

Keeps

Open desert, climbing and gliding, and the pull of the horizon.

Drops

Combat. Nobody fights anybody.

The old Zelda structure seen by a fox, with an instruction manual you collect in pages and slowly learn to read.

Keeps

A world full of secrets you open with knowledge rather than keys.

Drops

The physics toys. The puzzles are on paper, not in the world.

The 2019 remake of the Game Boy one, in toy-box plastic. Classic dungeons on an island that is not what it seems.

Keeps

Zelda dungeons, items that open new paths and an island to poke around.

Drops

Free order and building. Dungeons come one after another.

The classic Zelda that came closest to Breath of the Wild's freedom. You rent the items and take the dungeons in any order.

Keeps

Dungeons in the order you choose, and a wall-walking trick that turns every room into a puzzle.

Drops

The scale. It's a top-down map you can learn in a weekend.

Fly anywhere in a tiny solar system from the first minute, and work out why it keeps ending.

Keeps

Go anywhere from the start and work out how the world fits together.

Drops

Combat, gear and every upgrade except knowledge.

Zelda's own turn, with a rod that copies beds, tables and monsters so you can solve things your way. The nearest thing to Ultrahand that isn't Ultrahand.

Keeps

Solving problems with whatever you can conjure, and a Hyrule to do it in.

Drops

Physics building and the sky. It's top-down.

Breath of the Wild's structure with Greek myth painted on, and two narrators who never stop bickering. The most direct copy here.

Keeps

Stamina climbing, gliding, puzzle vaults and an open world to wander.

Drops

Ultrahand, and some of the charm.