The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

2017 · Nintendo EPD · ~55h to finish

It is not hard to survive so much as hard to be told nothing and still choose the right direction.

actionexplorationadventureNintendo Switch

Global—UNRATED

Baseline difficulty3.8MODERATE

You will lose sometimes. You will not mind.

The fingerprint

12.55.07.510

Puzzle

4.5

Reaction

4.0

Learning Curve

3.8

Obscurity

3.8

Execution

3.2

Strategy

3.0

Punishment

2.6

Grind

2.5

PUBLISHEDHARDEST DEMAND FIRST

Obscurity drops 0.7 points — you handle this better than most.
Punishment drops 0.4 points — you handle this better than most.
Assist options shave roughly 1.1 points off, if you use them.
Not available on any platform you own.

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Where it bites

SPOILER-SAFE BY DEFAULT

START25%HALFWAY75%CREDITS

5% · ~2hPunishment
the opening plateau, where you are cold, poor and easy to kill
▲ 11
55% · ~30hReaction
the boss waiting at the end of each of the four main dungeons
▲ 1

Assists & accessibility

0/3 SOURCED

CHALLENGE RELIEF

Save anywhere [unsourced]Manual saves anywhere outside combat, plus five rolling autosaves.

HEARING

Full subtitles [unsourced]

GUIDANCE

Objective markers [unsourced]Custom map stamps and a travel medallion for fast return trips.

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What it is

An open-world adventure that hands you a glider and a physics toolkit and lets you approach the whole map, including the final boss, in any order.

Where to go from here

Argue with these asks

The same shape, one rung harder. The next thing, not the hardest thing.

The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

2023 · Nintendo EPD Production Group No. 3 · ~60h

4.3MODERATE

Every problem has a build that solves it, so the difficulty is whether you think to make one. The Depths are darker and meaner than anything in Breath of the Wild.

UnratedPUZ 5.0OBS 4.4STR 4.5Not on your platforms

GRD 3.0PUN 2.8STR 4.5 — you asked for forgiving

Undertale

2015 · tobyfox · ~7h

4.9STEEP

Ordinary play is gentle. The route the game remembers you taking turns two of its fights into some of the strictest bullet hell in the catalogue.

UnratedOBS 6.2REA 5.5EXE 4.5

3.5

Blasphemous 2

2023 · The Game Kitchen · ~20h

5.1STEEP

Kinder than the first in every way that matters — the instant-death platforming is gone — and the map is still built to be read rather than followed.

UnratedOBS 6.2EXE 5.8REA 5.5

2.5

The same shape, one rung harder. The next thing, not the hardest thing.

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