In its September 9 Nintendo Direct, Nintendo announced that Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity – Definitive Edition will be coming to Nintendo Switch 2 on February 25, 2027. Pre-orders open later today.
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity – Definitive Edition will include all previous expansion pass content. Additionally, the game will run at 60 frames per second and receive a new higher difficulty, named Calamity Mode.
Owners of the Nintendo Switch version of the game will receive a discount when purchasing the digital edition of the new release. Save data will transfer over too.
The Nintendo eShop page for the original Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity provides this description:
See Hyrule 100 years before the Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild game and experience the events of the Great Calamity
Join the struggle that brought Hyrule to its knees. Learn more about Zelda, the four Champions, the King of Hyrule and more through dramatic cutscenes as they try to save the kingdom from Calamity. The Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity game is the only way to see firsthand what happened 100 years ago.
– Battle hordes of Hyrule’s most formidable foes –
From barbaric Bokoblins to towering Lynels, menacing monsters have emerged in droves. In addition to Link and Zelda, take control of characters like the four Champions and a young Impa. Use their distinct abilities to carve through hundreds of enemies to save Hyrule from the impending Calamity.
