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The announcement of an upcoming remake for The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time has definitely been the most exciting part of the game’s 40th anniversary celebrations so far. Although we didn’t get a chance to see much of it at the time, it’s coming out later this year, so we shouldn’t have to wait long to see more.
Meanwhile, Nintendo isn’t the only one working to resurrect the classic title for a new generation, with fan developers doing a pretty spectacular job of bringing it back in their own right. Today, one of these projects just reached a major milestone and you can download it and try it for yourself today.
As first reported by DSO Gaming, developer CryZENx, known for its work porting Nintendo games to Unreal Engine 5, has made a demo of its fan remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time available for download. Built in Unreal Engine 5.7.4, the tech demo focuses on the quest “Into the Belly of Jabu-Jabu,” culminating in the fight against Barinade.
The game certainly looks great, and while it suffers from the glossy surfaces that often make it Unreal Engine 5 unappealing to many, it’s certainly a major graphical upgrade over the base game. However, a lot of this is done through ray tracing, so you’ll need to make sure you have a capable card if you want to try.
Unreal Engine 5.7.4 also brought many improvements to technologies like Lumen, making it look much better, but crucially improving performance across the board. This should make this latest version much more comfortable to play than anything they’ve released so far.
While this is obviously not the full game, it should be a nice window into what fans can expect from the real game later this year. Obviously, we would expect a lot more refinement from a giant megacorporation like Nintendobut the limited contact we’ve had with the upcoming game’s visuals shows a vaguely similar approach.
We don’t have a specific release date for the official Ocarina of Time Remake for now, although previous trends and confirmation that it’s happening this year suggest November is the best bet. That means a likely franchise-centric Nintendo Direct around September, where we can expect to see more of the game, an upcoming film adaptation, and whatever else they have planned.
- Released
- 2026
- Developer(s)
- Nintendo
- Editor(s)
- Nintendo
- Franchise
- The Legend of Zelda
- Number of players
- A player