Redditor finds a DS demake of Breath of The Wild on AliExpress

Picture of the game played on a DS

Published: Oct 20, 2024, 5:45PM by @AdyaGD

This is probably one of the strangest stories I found recently, so someone on Reddit found a cartridge on AliExpress containing a demake of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

What's strange about this is that no one knew about its existence prior to this post, if someone were to ever make a project like this, it would be likely that we would have heard about it by promoting it on social media.

Well it turns out that the reason why we haven't heard about it, is because it is theorized that the creator resides in China, which is probably why it was found on AliExpress in the first place; Reddit users started digging and used reverse image search to find the origin of the game, and they found videos about it, and its existence date back to 2019 on the Chinese Youtube alternative BiliBili

This demake is obviously not a full game and looks to just be a prototype, you simply explore a low poly version of the Breath of the Wild Hyrule map which looks to be very accurate, here's a video of the Youtuber JustJasen exploring the game: