Some game franchises release companion books as nice little extras. This one feels more like a closing ceremony. After reshaping open-world games across two enormous releases, one of Nintendo’s biggest sagas is getting a major new hardcover release that digs into the art, design, and lore behind its most recent chapter. It may not be the brand-new Switch 2 adventure fans are desperate for, but it is still a pretty meaningful return to Hyrule.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom — Secrets of the Zonai is set to release in October 2026. It’s a 424-page hardcover book that’s going to explore the world, art, design and everything else involved in Tears of the Kingdom, with a special focus on the Zonai, the mysterious ancient civilization at the center of the game’s story. The book follows one of the most successful periods in Zelda history.
Breath of the Wild, for anyone living under a rock, managed to transform Hyrule into a huge open world, and then Tears of the Kingdom expanded the world up into the sky, down into the Depths, and beyond. It also added systems that let players create everything from simple bridges to deeply cursed flying machines. Nintendo fans are normal about this, obviously.
Collider Exclusive · Sci-Fi Survival Quiz Which Sci-Fi World Would You Survive? The Matrix · Mad Max · Blade Runner · Dune · Star Wars
Five universes. Five completely different ways the future went wrong — or sideways, or up in flames. Only one of them is the world your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out which dystopia, galaxy, or desert wasteland you’d actually make it out of alive.
💊The Matrix
🔥Mad Max
🌧️Blade Runner
🏜️Dune
🚀Star Wars
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You sense something is deeply wrong with the world around you. What do you do? The first instinct is often the truest one.
02
In a world of scarcity, what resource do you guard most fiercely? What we protect reveals what we believe survival actually requires.
03
What kind of threat keeps you up at night? Fear is useful data — if you’re honest about what you’re actually afraid of.
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How do you deal with authority you don’t trust? Every dystopia has a power structure. Your approach to it determines everything.
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Which environment could you actually endure long-term? Survival isn’t just tactical — it’s physical, psychological, and very much about where you are.
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Who do you want in your corner when things fall apart? The company you keep is the clearest signal of who you actually are.
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Where do you draw the line — if you draw one at all? Every survivor eventually faces a moment that tests what they’re actually made of.
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What would actually make survival worth it? Staying alive is one thing. Having a reason to is another.
Your Fate Has Been Calculated You’d Survive In…
Your answers point to the world your instincts were built for. This is the universe your temperament, your survival instincts, and your particular brand of stubbornness were made for.
The Resistance, Zion
The Matrix
You took the red pill a long time ago — probably before anyone offered it to you. You’re a systems thinker who can’t help but notice the seams in things.
You’re drawn to understanding how the system works before figuring out how to break it.
You’d find the Resistance, or it would find you — your instinct for spotting constructed realities is the machines’ worst nightmare.
You function best when you have access to information and the freedom to act on it.
The Matrix built an airtight prison. You’d be the one probing the walls for the door.
The Wasteland
Mad Max
The wasteland doesn’t reward the clever or the well-connected — it rewards those who are hard to kill and harder to break. That’s you.
You don’t need comfort, community, or a cause larger than the next horizon.
You need a vehicle, a clear threat, and enough fuel to outrun it — and you’re good at all three.
You are unsentimental enough to survive that world, and decent enough — just barely — to be something more than another raider.
In the wasteland, that distinction is everything.
Los Angeles, 2049
Blade Runner
You’d survive here because you know how to exist in moral grey areas without losing yourself completely.
You read people accurately, keep your circle small, and ask the questions others prefer not to answer.
In a city where humanity is a legal designation rather than a feeling, you hold onto something that keeps you functional.
You’re not a hero. But you’re not lost, either.
In Blade Runner’s world, that distinction is everything.
Arrakis
Dune
Arrakis is the most hostile environment in the known universe — and you are precisely the kind of person it rewards.
Patience, discipline, and political awareness are your core strengths — and on Arrakis, they’re survival tools.
You understand that the long game matters more than any single victory.
Others come to Dune and are consumed by it. You’d learn its logic and earn its respect.
In time, you wouldn’t just survive Arrakis — you’d begin to reshape it.
A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Star Wars
The galaxy far, far away is vast, loud, and in a constant state of violent political upheaval — and you wouldn’t have it any other way.
You find meaning in being part of something larger than yourself — a cause, a crew, a rebellion.
You’d gravitate toward the Rebellion, or the fringes, or whatever pocket of the galaxy still believes the Empire’s grip can be broken.
You fight — not because you have to, but because standing aside isn’t something you’re capable of.
In Star Wars, that willingness is what makes all the difference.
Why Is ‘Secrets of the Zonai’ Such a Big Deal?
Because the Zonai are one of the most important additions to modern Zelda lore. Their ruins, technology, symbols, and architecture are everywhere in Tears of the Kingdom, shaping the game’s story and its entire visual language. For fans who spent hundreds of hours studying murals, shrines, sky islands, constructs, and every suspicious bit of green energy, a full art and lore-focused book is basically catnip. We bet there’ll even be Easter eggs hidden in the pages.
It also gives Nintendo a way to keep the “Wilds era” alive while the future of the franchise remains unclear. There has been no official announcement of a brand-new mainline Zelda game for Nintendo Switch 2, so this release sits in a strange but useful space. Plus, companion books rule. It lets us get super geeky about things like ruined temples, strange machines, carved symbols, costumes, monsters, and landscapes, all those little things that make games linger, and this gives us the perfect reason to look at the craft behind the world.
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom — Secrets of the Zonai releases in October 2026.
