7 Games Like Zelda – Playing Link Without Link

6. Darksiders

Vigil Games' Darksiders has been referred to by many as "Dark Zelda" and with good reason—if God of War and Ocarina of Time had a baby, it'd come in the form of Darksiders.

Darksiders offers the slick, and skill-oriented combat of the God of War games while retaining the puzzle-solving and adventuring sensibilities of Zelda. It provides the player with a relatively open world to traverse through, opening up new areas as the player unlocks new traversal abilities such as a grappling hook and a phantasmal set of wings.

To draw the parallels to Ocarina of Time even closer, Darksiders even allows you to acquire a steed for which to move through the larger areas with ease and overcome obstacles. Epona might be cool for a horse, but Ruin is the only way to travel through the blighted lands of post-apocalyptic Earth.