The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time cost to play

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is a single-player action adventure developed and published by Nintendo. It first came out in 1998 on the Nintendo 64. It ranks #16 in our best games of all time ranking.

How it plays

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time follows Link on a journey across Hyrule, and through time, to stop the plans of Ganondorf. Nintendo describes the original Nintendo 64 version as the game that brought 3D visuals to the series, with a new combat system, and says players use weapons and items, battle bosses and solve puzzles.

Hyrule Field sits at the centre of the kingdom and leads to towns, a volcano, a lake, a desert and other places, and the story unfolds across two eras. Dungeons and temples are filled with puzzles, enemies and treasure. Link's equipment includes a wooden shield, a stick that doubles as a torch, nuts that stun monsters with a flash of light, bombs, a slingshot and a bow. He learns songs on his ocarina that open new paths and can turn day to night, and he can befriend a horse to ride later on.

Details of the world and items come from Nintendo UK's page for the Nintendo Switch 2 remake, which also adds features of its own, such as a dash move, that are not in the original.

What it costs

The original game isn't sold on its own today. It was released on the Wii and Wii U Virtual Console, but Nintendo stopped purchases in the Wii U Nintendo eShop on 27 March 2023.

The way to play the Nintendo 64 version now is through the Nintendo 64 – Nintendo Classics app on Nintendo Switch, which lists Ocarina of Time. That needs a paid Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack membership. Nintendo UK gives the individual 12-month membership as £34.99 and the family 12-month membership, for up to eight accounts, as £59.99.

Nintendo has also remade the game for Nintendo Switch 2. Nintendo UK lists a release date of 5 November 2026, and the Nintendo eShop UK pre-order price is £49.99. What the remake changes, from voiced cutscenes to new controls, is in our Ocarina of Time remake release date guide. A separate 2011 remake, Ocarina of Time 3D, was made for Nintendo 3DS; we haven't priced it.

The game isn't on Steam, so this page has no player count.

Age rating

Ocarina of Time is rated PEGI 12 for violence on Nintendo UK, for the Nintendo 64, Wii and Wii U versions. The Switch 2 remake is also PEGI 12 for violence.

How we checked

We read the Nintendo UK game pages, the Nintendo 64 – Nintendo Classics page and the Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack page on 21 October 2026. The remake's pre-order price is from the Nintendo eShop UK price data on the same day. The gameplay description is based on Nintendo UK's pages for the Nintendo 64 game and the Nintendo Switch 2 remake.

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