With almost 40 years of history, dozens of games, and a story that spans millennia across multiple consoles, figuring out the timeline for The Legend of Zelda isn't easy. While some games play ...

With 464 pages of design and lore insights from the dev team, this book promises to clarify a bit of that, including details of the timeline. You may like Nintendo heads off the Zelda lore debate ...

The Zelda timeline has been a topic of debate going back to A Link to the Past. That game essentially acted as a reboot of the series, with a new take on Link, and no prior knowledge needed from ...

For almost as long as The Legend of Zelda as a franchise has existed, Nintendo players the world over have been trying to make sense of the timeline. After all, other than 1987’s Zelda 2 ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Nintendo has apparently provided a fresh new timeline for The Legend of Zelda series, one that famously splits off into three different branches ...

With so many Zelda games, and even a supposed canonical timeline linking them all to one another, it can seem pretty daunting to jump into the series if you're new to it. This includes everything ...

That said, we do have to cut out games that have no place in the real timeline, are pure spinoffs, or are otherwise non-canon (sorry CDI games). Here’s every major Zelda game in release order.

One thing Zelda fans are more than used to at this point (beyond the long waits for new games) is the messiness of the series timeline. The Zelda franchise is home to one of the most hotly debated ...

In 2011, Nintendo released The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia ... contribution to the franchise was the first official series timeline, revealing exactly where and when different games take ...

However, not everyone will agree on a definitive order that you can play Zelda in - and that's because of the different timelines that exist throughout the games. There are a number of timelines ...

Thankfully, in 2011, we got the first officially published timeline in The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia. (The creative team behind the Zelda series had an eyes-only, confidential version of ...