The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD cover art

Game entry

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD

2013 · Action-adventure, Puzzle · Wii U · Nintendo

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD carries 1,695 ELO points on GameForever and holds position no. 489 in the world ranking, with 59% of duels won out of 204 played. The pairing that comes up most often sets it against The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: 3 duels settled, 0 to 3. Measured against its own family, it climbs to no. 20 out of 210 (2013).

World rank

no. 489

ELO score

1,695

Wins

59%

Duels played

204

Join the debate · 45

About The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD

The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD is a remaster of The Wind Waker with an alternate recreation of the original's art style, several gameplay adjustments, a new lighting engine and higher resolution textures.

ELO progression

Score moved from 1,500 to 1,695 ELO points over the last 170 days.

Head-to-head

Direct record on the most played match-ups.

In the same genre

All Action-adventure games →
  1. 2 Red Dead Redemption 22018 · Action-adventure 1,961
  2. 3 The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild2017 · Action-adventure 1,942
  3. 13 Outer Wilds2019 · Action-adventure 1,917
  4. 17 The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past1991 · Action-adventure 1,907
  5. 20 Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain2015 · Action-adventure 1,900

Keep exploring

Ranking of action-adventure games All-time best Nintendo games Best games on Wii U Top games of the 2010s Ranking of 2013 games Every The Legend of Zelda game, ranked Ranking of the The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker series

Around this spot

The games The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD sits between in the world ranking.

  1. 486 Assassin's Creed 1,695
  2. 487 Assassin's Creed Brotherhood 1,695
  3. 488 Valiant Hearts: The Great War 1,695
  4. 489 The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD 1,695
  5. 490 Night in the Woods 1,695
  6. 491 Pokémon Moon 1,695
  7. 492 Uncharted: The Lost Legacy 1,694

More games from Nintendo

Released in 2013

The standing

Where The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD ranks

The world rank mixes every family of games. Here is where The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD stands in each of the ones it belongs to. Its best standing, all families considered: 20 out of 210 (2013).

Where The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD ranks
Ranking Position Games competing
World ranking 489 5,035
Action-adventure 66 329
2010s 203 2,050
2013 20 210

The community

The debate

45 comments

Posting requires an account: log in or sign up.

  1. ArcadeWarden2

    Played it right after a bad move across the country, still remember the calm it gave me...

  2. NovaOwl

    okay so hear me out, i keep seeing this thing get thrown into duels against stuff like Ghost of Tsushima and Uncharted 2 and it just feels like a weird mismatch every time, different genres, different eras, different everything, and the elo system doesn't seem to care about any of that, it just wants a winner, so we end up comparing sailing simulators against cinematic action games and nobody wins that comparison in any meaningful way.

    TurboMaster16

    Sure, comparing it to Goat Simulator makes total sense, truly the pinnacle of balanced matchmaking.

  3. Hortense_24

    I don't care what anyone says about the pacing, this remaster nails exactly what made the original special and improves on the parts people always complained about. People act like the sailing was some unforgivable sin when honestly it gave the world room to breathe.

  4. ArcadeOwl

    Honestly putting this up against Goat Simulator in the same bracket says more about the ranking system than either game.

    IronHunter82

    The map screen alone gave me MORE joy than half that goat physics engine ever did.

    PixelKnight

    Putting it next to Goat Simulator is wild but I remember laughing about that exact matchup with my roommate over pizza one night.

  5. SammieDragon

    I'll always take this over Oblivion, the world just feels alive in a way that one never managed for me.

    Rudolph_2

    Would you actually put Oblivion below this, or is it just the world design you're comparing?

    GhostKnight

    Replying to Rudolph_2

    Is it really the world that never grabbed you in Oblivion, or is that just the easy thing to say now?

    Antonette_77

    Alive how, exactly, compared to a world that at least reacts to what you do in it?

    NovaPlayer15

    Maybe, not fully sure though

    GhostKnight2

    Alive is doing a lot of work in that sentence, Oblivion's world just moves differently, it doesn't mean this one wins by default.

    ComboRider80

    same here, that world just breathes differently

See the whole The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD debate →

Vote on a duel