water temple
Submerged sacred structure
A water temple is a level or area in video games—particularly action-adventure and role-playing games—featuring water-based puzzles, often involving raising and lowering water levels, swimming mechanics, or underwater navigation.
The term became iconic through *The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time*, whose Water Temple is notorious for its difficulty and tedium.
Players now use water temple as shorthand for any frustrating, puzzle-heavy game section: Every game has its water temple level.
- shrineSacred devotional place
- sacredWorthy of reverence
- sacred springReligiously significant water source
- fountainWater-spouting structure
- aquaticWater-inhabiting
Ocarina of Time · ritual · ritual bath · pool · underwater · ancient · lotus · sanctuary · inner sanctum · koi · koi pond · blessing · stone · stone lantern · flowing · prayer · purification · basin
- Templesmandir, pagoda, joss house, Parthenon, Pantheon
- Hindu templesmandir, shikhara, Dravidian, stone pillars, outer wall
- water systemsirrigation ditches, irrigation, pipes, tanks, wells
- Sunken KingdomsAtlantis, Lemuria, Mu, sunken city