Games Like The Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask
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The closest games to The Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask are Ocarina of Time, Outer Wilds, Deathloop, The Sexy Brutale and 12 Minutes. Below are 9 picks with the reason for each — what carries over from The Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask, and what does not.
What Made The Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask Work
Majora's Mask is the strange one. A three-day loop you keep resetting, four dungeons instead of eight, and a town full of people whose small tragedies you can only fix by learning their schedules. It is a Zelda about dread and routine rather than about heroism.
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask is Nintendo EAD's 2000 Nintendo 64 game, built on Ocarina of Time's engine and requiring the Expansion Pak; Grezzo remade it for 3DS in 2015. Link has three days to stop a moon crashing into Termina, resetting time with the Song of Time and learning the townspeople's schedules through the Bombers' Notebook. Masks transform him into Deku, Goron and Zora forms. Fans usually want another game about loops, routines and melancholy.
Also written as Majora's Mask, Majoras Mask, Zelda Majora's Mask — same game, same list.
9 Games Like The Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask
1.Ocarina of Time
The game it reuses and reacts against — play it first.
Why it fits: Nintendo EAD's 1998 Nintendo 64 game is the direct predecessor, sharing Majora's Mask's engine, many character models and its controls.
What is different: A straightforward adventure with no clock: the world waits while you explore.
Where to play it: N64; the remake is on 3DS.
More about this game →2.Outer Wilds
The other great time-loop game, and the best of them. Play it knowing nothing.
Why it fits: Mobius Digital's 2019 game, published by Annapurna Interactive, traps you in a 22-minute loop that ends with the sun exploding; knowledge is your only progress.
What is different: A 22-minute loop across a small solar system, and you keep only what you know, never items.
Where to play it: PC, PS4, Xbox One and Switch.
More about this game →3.Deathloop
A loop where knowledge is the only progression, in a shooter.
Why it fits: Arkane Lyon's 2021 shooter repeats a single day on an island, and you use knowledge of targets' schedules to kill eight of them before midnight.
What is different: A first-person shooter on a one-day loop, with powers and a rival assassin hunting you.
Where to play it: PC and PS5; later Xbox Series X|S.
More about this game →4.The Sexy Brutale
A repeating day full of people on schedules you have to learn.
Why it fits: Cavalier Game Studios and Tequila Works' 2017 game repeats one day at a masquerade ball, where you learn guests' movements to prevent their murders.
What is different: One mansion and one day on repeat, where you stop murders by watching the guests and stepping in.
Where to play it: PC, PS4, Xbox One and Switch.
More about this game →5.12 Minutes
Time loop as a domestic thriller, small and tense.
Why it fits: Luis Antonio's 2021 thriller loops the same evening in a small apartment, with each attempt revealing more about what is happening.
What is different: One apartment and a loop measured in minutes, seen from above; you talk and experiment rather than fight.
Where to play it: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and Switch.
More about this game →6.Elden Ring
For the same willingness to be genuinely unsettling.
Why it fits: FromSoftware's 2022 open-world RPG shares a willingness to be strange and unsettling, with a world in decline.
What is different: No time loop at all; it shares the ruined, melancholy world and a story told through items and places.
Where to play it: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S.
More about this game →7.The Minish Cap
If you want more 2D Zelda after it.
Why it fits: Capcom and Nintendo's 2004 Game Boy Advance Zelda is a compact 2D adventure where Link shrinks to explore.
What is different: Bright and cheerful, with a talking cap that shrinks you instead of masks, and no three-day clock.
Where to play it: Game Boy Advance.
Games like this →8.Return of the Obra Dinn
A world frozen in time that you unpick by observation.
Why it fits: Lucas Pope's 2018 game has you deduce the fates of a ship's crew by viewing frozen moments of their deaths.
What is different: A deduction game on a ghost ship: you work out how each sailor died, and never fight anyone.
Where to play it: PC, PS4, Xbox One and Switch.
More about this game →9.Death's Door
Compact adventure with a similar melancholy underneath.
Why it fits: Acid Nerve's 2021 top-down adventure is about a crow who reaps souls, with a melancholy tone under its humour.
What is different: Seen from above and combat-led, with death and reaping as its theme but no clock to beat.
Where to play it: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and Switch.
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Where to Start
Outer Wilds is the best time-loop game there is — go in knowing as little as possible. The Sexy Brutale is closest to learning a crowd's schedules. If you have not played Ocarina of Time, play it first.
How We Picked These Games
Every pick either uses a time loop or repeating schedule, shares Majora's Mask's unsettling tone, or is a compact Zelda-like adventure. We placed the time-loop games highest, because that is what most people asking are looking for.
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How These Picks Match The Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask
The Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask is catalogued here as a Zelda-style adventure and action-adventure on the Nintendo 64. All nine picks share at least one of its genre tags — nine adventures and five action games among them.
Going by the "where to play it" notes, seven can be played on PC, seven can be played on a PlayStation, seven can be played on a Nintendo system and seven can be played on an Xbox. Outer Wilds, The Sexy Brutale, 12 Minutes, Return of the Obra Dinn and Death's Door are from small or self-published studios. Ocarina of Time and The Minish Cap are the ones a child and an adult can play together.
| Game | Genre | Shares with The Legend of Zelda Majora's Mask | Where to play |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ocarina of Time | Adventure, Action, Family | Adventure, Action | N64; the remake is on 3DS. |
| Outer Wilds | Adventure, Puzzle, Indie | Adventure | PC, PS4, Xbox One and Switch. |
| Deathloop | Shooter, Action, Adventure | Adventure, Action | PC and PS5; later Xbox Series X|S. |
| The Sexy Brutale | Puzzle, Adventure, Indie | Adventure | PC, PS4, Xbox One and Switch. |
| 12 Minutes | Adventure, Puzzle, Indie | Adventure | PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and Switch. |
| Elden Ring | Action, RPG, Adventure | Adventure, Action | PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S. |
| The Minish Cap | Adventure, Action, Family | Adventure, Action | Game Boy Advance. |
| Return of the Obra Dinn | Puzzle, Adventure, Indie | Adventure | PC, PS4, Xbox One and Switch. |
| Death's Door | Adventure, Action, Indie | Adventure, Action | PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and Switch. |
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