The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has a lot to do. While completing quest missions to help Princess Zelda and save her kingdom, you’ll also encounter interesting locations, charming shrines, colorful characters, and the occasional Horse God.
You can also participate in various mini-game activities scattered throughout Hyrule. Whether it’s a skill-based challenge or a game of luck and chance, the mini-games available in Tears of the Kingdom will keep you hooked between intense combat and sprawling temples. Here is a handpicked selection of the best minigames.
7 flight range
The airfield near Rito Village will be familiar to anyone who has played Tears of the Kingdom’s predecessor, Breath of the Wild. In this game, the flight range serves as a practice area for shooting arrows in the air, but things change a bit in the sequel.
In Tears of the Kingdom, Flight Range focuses on practicing the glide itself. Take advantage of the constant updraft to find the best route, go through as many rings as possible and aim to reach a certain number before the time runs out. Finding the best routes to glide, fall and rise in this windy playground is a lot of fun.
6 Sorashima Diving Challenge
Rito’s Flight Range is a lot of fun, but gliding isn’t the only aerial activity you can participate in. The game has a lot of islands in the sky, so sometimes you will also spend a lot of time diving at high speeds. This is where various diving challenges arise.
If you’ve spotted one of Tears of the Kingdom’s large vertical collections of spinning sky islands, chances are you’re looking at one of the game’s diving challenges. Simply head to the bottom of the area and talk to the structure there to complete the challenge and potentially earn a very useful reward.
Five Torokkoland
Minecarts have been found all over Hyrule since the days of the Catastrophe, propelling you around the game’s rails at convenient speeds. Tears of the Kingdom adds a lot of practicality to these marvels on wheels, from Shield-His Fusion, which provides a makeshift skateboard, to trips around Death-His Mountain in the power of fast-paced fans. .
The latter method is especially useful when participating in the Kart Challenge presented by the Three Goron Brothers, located near Goron Village in the fun area known as “Trolleyland”. Fly around a series of tracks and hit targets with arrows as the challenges become more epic and difficult.
Four treasure chest shop
If you stopped by Lurelyn Village in Breath of the Wild, you may have spotted the Treasure Chest Shop. In this unique shop, paying a small rupee gives him the chance to open one of three treasure chests. If you choose the right one, you can get a hefty amount of Rupees. In some cases, it can far exceed the entry fee.
The chest shop has changed a bit, but it’s back in Tears of the Kingdom. Open one of his chests for free. The type of rupee you find determines which of the shopkeeper’s prizes you take home. A nice twist on an already fun idea.
3 racing mini game
Tears of the Kingdom is so focused on creating wild vehicles that it would have been an outright crime if the game didn’t include some kind of racing mini-game. Thankfully, there are multiple options to choose from if you want to test what you’ve created.
There is an area in Tarrytown where Zonai parts are being studied and one of the researchers is interested in the performance of the Zonai structure on the course. Similarly, once things calm down a bit in Lurelyn Village, you’ll be able to participate in boat races. Both activities are a lot of fun and I encourage you to try different builds to get the best times.
2 hide and seek
Tears of the Kingdom is surprisingly full of kids from toddlers to teenagers. As expected, they spend a lot of their time running and playing, and you can join in on the fun from time to time.
In Gerudo Village, you meet a girl standing near a strangely shaped sphere. If she asks her if she can eat it, she will agree. As a condition, it is necessary to participate in hide-and-seek first. She hides a small plush version of the game’s Sand Seal, so you’ll need to search the area before time runs out. It’s nice to see children are children even in the face of impending doom.
1 Sorashima Basketball (Other)
Many of Tears of the Kingdom’s mini-games are hand-crafted for your enjoyment, but many of the game’s most enjoyable moments are created through the clever use of items and mechanics. Everywhere there are toys that Link finds fun to play with.
For example, you may have found a floating orb in the sky near Skymine with a giant button inside. A large block must be sent into the orb’s entrance hole using a launcher located on a nearby island. Finding the perfect angle and smashing blocks into holes is fun enough, but it’s just as fun to solve puzzles in your own way using items like rockets and floating cubes. This is just one example of the DIY nature that makes Tears of the Kingdom gameplay so special.