Ranking The Difficulty of Every 3D Zelda Dungeon | 3D Zelda Dungeon Difficulty Tier List 

I love how most of the Majora's Mask dungeons are difficult, and then you add in the fact that you're on a time limit in all of them, unlike the other dungeons. It's an extra dose of difficulty, as you have to do the entire dungeon, then do anything the dungeon unlocks after completion before a new cycle, else you have to go back and fight the boss again

Jabu Jabu was one of the hardest for me as a kid, but after 15+ years, it's the easiest dungeon for me to clear quickly in any Zelda game

I miss that feeling when you enter a dungeon and all the possibilities open up in the central room as you contemplate the exploration ahead.

I also love the oot watertemple :) dungeons like this one, Jabu Jabu, WW windtemple show, that people don't like them, because they got stuck and its not fair to rank them lower because of that. Watertemple is geniusly constructed.

Currently replaying Majora's Mask for the first time after 20 years! Stone Tower def deserves the title.

nice to see a smaller channel with content I'm into like this. I definitely been watching these zelda tier lists, keep it up bro

I agreed within a tier for every dungeon except the Snowpeak Ruins. I remember at least one block pushing puzzle that just ruined my brain lol as well as an overall confusing layout. Would def put it in Very difficult alongside the others you had there

Your Zelda videos are some of my favorite on RU-vid, I always look forward to your new ultimate Zelda ranking videos.

The hardest thing for me in a Zelda game ever was the moblin maze thing leading up to the forest temple in ocarina, it was so hard for me as a very little kid with bad reaction time that I stopped playing for a whole year before returning and beating the game

I found the Lanayru Mining Facility to be the most difficult in Skyward Sword. Maybe it's because I was playing with joycon drift but it was hard to do the platform puzzles and deal with the Beamos enemies, without a bow (if you miss the thrusing motion, it gets bad). Pretty big dungeon and easy to fall in some of the rooms and have to go through certain motions again.

Ironically, the Water Temple in OoT was the only one I didn't need any assistance with

All time most difficult boss for me is the Great Bay Temple. Still stumps me to this day

The divine beasts were easy but always give me trouble. Also I feel the Snowpeak ruins should be in Not Too Bad. A couple puzzles in it just throw me for a loop every single time I play it. Also does Ikana Castle count as a Temple since Bottom of The Well is one? Ikana Castle has you wander through it and you have to fight Igos Du Ikana

Also, i wanna say you are my favourite small channel! I look forward to seeing new videos from you every time I finish a video! :D That being said, the earth temple should be in very difficult for the one room towards the end where you have to angle about 20 mirrors in a very specific way and then end it with doing a combo reflect with both link and medli. I couldnt even beat that growing up, I had to give it to my mom (who used a strategy guide) haha. If that room didn't exist, fair placement, but every time I play through this game again I have to live knowing that a revisit to that room is inevitable!

I see you got your GameStop shirt! Great video as always!

For some reason, I always had trouble with Forest Haven from Wind Waker as a kid. There was this one part where you have to carry a seed on a moving platform while avoiding Peahats chasing after you. I would always end up getting hit by the Peahat and the seed would fall off the platform causing me to have to start the cycle over. Also, the Eagle Tower from Link’s Awakening was very difficult for me. Everything was going fine in the start, but I had no clue that i had to throw the big metal ball at the pillars to make the top floor fall.

Wow, I'm surprised by how much I aligned with you on almost everything! The only thing I would change is I would put the divine beasts (except Vah Medoh) one rank higher. I've only played them once, but I did not find them straightforward (except Vah Medoh lol). Validation, finally, for Lakebed Temple! I've only played Twilight Princess twice, but I get turned around so much trying to figure out the water levels and the grappling hook segments are so tedious and easy to get lost. Both times, I've gotten so frustrated I've had to use a guide. It's one of my least favourite dungeons in the series, despite having a water slide XD

Enjoyed a lot, I agree totally with the 3 main water dungeons being in the very difficult.

I'm natural at solving the puzzles, so it usually ends up being more combat that screws me over. So the Camel would be very difficult. That electric blight is a bastard. I found the Mining Facility tough the first time. I couldn't figure out the Beamos enemies right away. The moving parts were screwy as well. The fire temple in OOT, getting the damn hammer is a pain in the ass. Time limit and a curve skinny ramp. Take care Essay.

The sky keep was so hard to me it was the only dungeon in SS i had to use a guide. Absolutely fuck that slide puzzle

There is some tricky things to the Tower of the Gods dungeon in the Wind Waker. For one, I didn't know what to do with the wind symbol on the ground - took me forever to realize what to do there. I was throwing the boomerang, messing with the Deku leaf and all sorts of things. The game uses this wind symbol later on in multiple places, but this is the first time the game throws this at you. There was some other tricky things in this dungeon, like not realizing I could jump while I am lifting those command statues. Maybe I'm just stupid, but I tried throwing it over the pit and failing like 5 times before I realized I could carry them. I just assumed it would weigh me down and cause me to fall. Stupid me I guess.

I Wish dungeons would be harder For me they are the Highlight

If you count the goron trial of the moon, it would be in the very difficult tier. Lakebed was a "difficult" for me and I love it! I don't think stonetower is harder than watertemple tbh. And Vah RUTA (how could you forget about princess ruto ;D ) is kinda tricky, espescially when you consider it to be the first dungeon for most of the gamers. You should uplift it to easy, maybe even to "Not too Bad". And vah naboris has the most difficult boss of any zeldagame. Definetely difficult!

I strictly agree with you regarding the four dungeons that you put in the very difficult category and their order!

Good video, i think i would've enjoyed it more if you specified which game you were talking about. Like when you say water temple i don't know which one

Also had to say I quit playing Ocarina of Time as a kid because of Jabu-jabu’s belly lol.

i was stuck on the first three oot adult dungeon for months, i beat both the shadow and the spirit temples in like a day. its probably because they are a lot more linear

Snowpeak Ruins is actually insanely hard imo. If you lose the cannonball and have to backtrack this dungeon can be a pain although it’s still one of my favourites

as i watch this video, i do wish that the dungeons were organized by "which game they are from"

The ones that gave me trouble on my first play through were Earth Temple from WW (first LoZ game I played and found some of the mirror puzzles hard), Stone Tower temple (didn’t occur to me that I would have to go outside of the temple to finish the 2nd half) and Ganons Castle in OoT (this was mainly because I went the whole without fire arrows and were required to complete it). I’m surprised the Water Temple didn’t give me that much trouble aside from the shadow link battle, that alone would have made me put it in the difficult tier

really enjoyed that! something that would be helpful imo would be to say what game they are from as you say the dungeon. Thanks! :)

I was able to beat Vah Medoh without rotating it. I didn’t even realize it was possible to manipulate the dungeon in that manner.

I’m sorry, but there’s no way you think TP Hyrule Castle is difficult 🫢

OOT Forest temple is my favorite Zelda dungeon of all time. And yeah i like the water temple too.

I dont think Snowpeak ruins is easy, I have beaten it too many times to judge wether or not the puzzles are easy but the ice monsters are more challenging than TP average monsters, and since there are no hearts in pots, your life meter tends to go down without you paying attention while being tricked by the seemingly peaceful atmosphere kupo

i think a lot of people forget how stumped they probably were in the great deku tree the first time through. having to jump from a high place into the spiderweb in the first room isnt the easiest thing to figure out. i would put it in easy because of that

I think I have the same Very Difficult ones. I think I might throw Beneath the Well in there too, I just replayed OoT recently and that was right up there with the Water Temple if not Harder difficulty wise since you don't get the lens of truth until the end so the whole thing is basically trial and error.

Great Lake Temple is quite easy and quick IMO... I'd put it two tiers below Water temple is harder than all the difficult temples for sure, but its way easier than Stone Tower and Great Bay.... maybe up those 2 a tier up

If you don't want to read the whole thing now plz pin. When i reached bottom of the well on my first playthrough, it took me about five or ten minutes to figure out what i needed to do. I will admit i struggled in jabu jabu my first and second time playing. Sky keep still makes no sense to this day (probably cause i don't play ss as much as most of the others that i own). The great bay temple is MUCH EASIER than the water temple for me, sometimes it takes me longer than water depending on if I'm getting the stray fairies or not. My most recent playthrough of lakebed temple, i didn't want to do and didn't really have time at that moment in time to do the second half, so i learned boss key skip for that one. The last mm one was actually not to bad for me, even while getting the stray fairies. My first in shadow was overall fine, but back then, something just didn't sit right with me whenever i would enter it (same with the well). The only plus on the 3Ds version of snow head was motion controls for me, it took a while but i got it after i finally opened the stupid chest i wasn't planning on opening cause i thought it was a fairy one and i just wanted to focus on getting to the boss, in short i was rushing and being stubborn. VA ruta is the water divine beast. The desert divine beast took a long time (mostly trying to wrap my head around Thunderblight Ganons speed but now he's a piece of cake).

I used a video guide for great bay because the time limit was too stressful for me to handle getting lost

I can tell you that first few times I played through Dodongo’s Cavern, it was most definitely not easy. There’s no way it should be in the same category as the Deku Tree, which was little more than a dungeon tutorial.

I have the same shirt!!😆👍🏿👍🏿. Snow peak ruins was hard AF

You should make a top 10 zelda dungeons list

Stone Tower Temple is the hardest trying to 100%. Also Great bay temple and Forest Temple are difficult as well, easy to get lost in.

Where's the dlc dungeon from BotW?

Disagree a bit with temple of spirit coz you have to do child part as well as adult .. and it’s definitely not an obvious part to many. Pretty much agree on the rest especially the very difficult part where we both think the hardest 3D dungeon is the last from MM My very difficult is : stone tower - great Bay - snow head temple (completely crazy and need you to really understand this tower mechanism) - water temple - woodfall temple. Plus if you want to get all the fairy in MM dungeons you gonna suffer if no solution aside 😅

Love this! However, I hate that you didn’t rate the Master Quest dungeons. Easily my favorite dungeons in the series just because of how difficult they are.

Hi I find your today and I'll sub ;) So here the dungeon I passed the most time from every 3d zelda: OOT: Shadow. That may be surprising but honestly I was just confuse every time. And again today (18yo) I have some issues with it. IDK why... MM: Stone Tower. I guess I don't have to explain... Still my fav dungeon of all time! WW: Wind. I was lost and stopped the game. Until i reedo in HD, but still lost :) TP: Arbiter Grounds. I never find the last ghost... That bad, this is my father who finish the temple XD SS: Skyview. Ik right? I was lost litterally on the 1st egigm, with the eye and the sword... BotW: Vah Nabooris. The camel was the worst and the hardest... ANyways, nice video!

I just beat Ocarina of Time for the first time, and the Shadow Temple has to be the hardest for me so far in the worst way. Maybe it was just a skill issue for me, but I found it very obscure, and I kept getting lost in parts that seem like they weren’t intended to be difficult.

Maybe I missed it but was Ice Cavern on the list? If bottom of the well counts, then so does ice cavern.

good list but it'd be better if you mentioned the game it was from, Hyrule Castle for example is both TP and BoTW so it was difficult to tell them apart until you mentioned "archers".

BotW Hyrule Castle is by far the hardest of these dungeons if you don't skip it. And even then, trying to skip the bulk of it when you've never been there, something you tried to envision for the water temples, means it's extra hard because it's so multi layered. The enemies are the hardest in the series too (for 3d games anyway) and saying you could just skip it makes it easy is like saying the Devine beasts are so easy you don't even have to do them at all. lol Nah, if you try to do even half of the hyrule castle or don't just try to run away, it's easily the hardest in the franchise at least for 3d games.

12:48 the moment of truth😂 everyone knows that it will go to the top. I like it too but when I played ocarina of time for first time it simply explored my mind and I always ignored navi that's why I get way more confuse😵 Edit: every water dungeon in Zelda games are the hardest except vah ruta😂

I would say so far the only 3D Zelda dungeons that I truly found hard is Great Bay and Stone Tower. Great Bay I think is a lot easier to get lost in because of the currents and Stone Tower gets you turned around with flipping the table and of course challenging with how you have to use all forms of Link and the switch puzzles then tact on the time limit for both of them, even if I start Great Bay on the first day there’s time I’m barely able to beat the dungeon until the final hours of the 3rd day. For me idk what it is but I found the Water Temple fairly easy as well as the Lake Bed Temple. Raising and lowering the water and rotating the flow of water never really confused me but I can see how people can find them really hard

Used to hate shadow temple. Got good at it from randomizer. Enemies and death traps are hatd

Forest Temple is definitely Very Difficult. It's a far more complex dungeon than Water Temple imo.

You need to name the game for some of these. I mean, "Hyrule Castle" that's a lot of Zelda games

Imagine ALL these in 1 Zelda game with all of which have items and/or item upgrades to progress all in 1 Zelda game that eventually becomes open air world.

Jabu jabu was only hard because of how much it makes you want to gag

Forest and water temple were both equally hard for me when I first played the game

The wind temple is the one that I always get stuck on when replaying Wind Waker. Personally, I think it's the hardest in the game. The forsaken fortress and ganon's castle are just annoying.

OoT's Fire Temple is indeed the easiest adult dungeon but somehow I always get confused. I tend to miss a goron or forget how to properly fight the mini bosses, don't find the way to the hammer or something else. For me personally it is medium to hard but I don't really know why exactly. And this is considering I cleared it numerous times before! But it is for sure harder than any of BotW's divine beasts! I totally agree about OoT's Jabu Jabu. It is definitely a huge difficulty spike after Tree and Cavern! And no. No dungeon in Wind Waker should be graded higher than Not Too Bad. The difficulty of the whole game is just not that hard... And I don't think the moon in MM qualifies as a dungeon. Kafei's quest thief's hideout isn't a dungeon either. It is just not enough stuff to qualify as a proper dungeon!

Lakebed Temple almost had me to give up my favorite game ever. Thanks god I hesitated though.

OOT Water Temple is more tedious than difficult. Yes it's hard the first time through, but once you know what to do it's just long and boring

I would switch the N64 water temple with Snowhead Basin from MM. . . Otherwise I agree. Then again, I thought Majora's mask was just a harder game every step of the way. . . But they expect you to go into the game with more experience.

The only placement on this list I hard disagree with is the Palace of Twilight, I would definitely put it in easy. The dungeon is extremely linear; there is only one way you can go at the start, which is the left side. Then the right side opens up after you get the first ball of light, so then that becomes the only way you can go since the middle section is blocked until the master sword gets powered up. The puzzles are basically non existent, they are pretty much all just placing the light ball on a switch to make platforms appear, or doing a spin attack to hit switches. All of the small keys you get just from beating the big Zant head enemies so no real thinking there either. Also the big hands that chase the ball of light; while they are intimidating, they move incredibly slow and can be stunned for a long time by hitting them with your clawshot (probably other items too that's just what I used).Even if they manage to grab the ball of light you can just snatch it right back out of their hand with the clawshot. This placement really stood out to me because I just beat Twilight Princess again a couple days ago so it's fresh in my mind.

no one can argue with me that oot gerduo temple in master quest is the absolute hardest that was a fucking dungeon

The ones I find difficult are the ones that cause anxiety or are boring have an ugly design (everyone has different taste) and the music counts a lot too...sometimes they may be difficult but become pleasent because the ambience and design is awsome like the Forest temple or TP Hyrule Castle or even the OOT water temple was hard but the mini boss and location and story makes it interesting..then theres the really difficult ones like the Wind temple in TWW and great bay temple in majoras mask..was so bad i didnt finnish the game..the other two where hard too.

You forgot beneath the well gerudo pirate ship and ikana castle from majoras mask

please do the same with the 2d dungeons! :)

The 2D Zelda titles are also generally more difficult games than the 3D Zelda titles.

Very difficult #1 Great Bay, #2 TP Water Temple, #3 MM Snowpeak

hard disagree, stone tower was honestly really linear and thats always so much easier than dungeons like great bay or water temple where ur just in a huge place and u dont know what to do first

City in the sky easier than Woodfall ya right

Its weird. Pretty much the biggest reason for me why Twilight Princess isnt among my fav Zeldas is, that it felt like it wouldnt throw any hurdles at me. The first time playing it i had no death, no puzzle i struggled with, no dungeon to get lost in. I have to admit that lakebed temple probably came closest. But in comparison to the other 2 water abominations, this was like no challenge. And thats coming from someone who struggles with Jabu Jabu even today. My 8 years old niece had an easier time clearing that. I dont know if you include the bosses or not, though. If so, that stupid fish from MM probably takes the cake here.

God I miss proper dungeons in Zelda 😢

City in the sky just REALLY overstays its welcome, by like 2-3 times

Stone Tower Temple is incredibly easy. I've replayed that dungeon at least 20 times.

Great bay temple is hell

I just guessed the order in ancient cistern😂

IMO majoras masks dungeons are easily the hardest

Him: "there are some that give me quite the headache" Me: THE FREAKING WATER TEMPLE!!!!!!!!!!!! Also, why are all the dungeons all out of order? Im just curious, I'm not judging 🙂.

the MM's temples are HARD!

Vah Naboris is extremely difficult for me. I still dont know how to beat it without cheating (using Revalis Gale).

Lakebed is extremely confusing more so than water temple

You forgot the DLC dungeon in Breath of the Wild

i’m like the opposite, the 2d dungeons are easier for me but i struggle, well have more difficulty, with the 3d dungeons

I can not, for the life of me, complete water temple in OOT without a guide

I found arbiter’s grounds hard

7:45 what about how disgusting it is? It has annoying mechanics, is confusing and I never look forward to it. Sure, it's very doable but man I hate how gross it is

Poor Ice Cavern, nobody count it as a dungeon 😿

Water temple is only hard the first time through. Wouldn’t call it very difficult. Compared to places like great bay or lakebed it’s not as bad

I only subscribed becauae you have a pug logo.

City in the sky is very difficult lmao

Don't think the divine beasts should be here

Woodfall is easy especially if you have played ocarina of time before.

I know I'm late to this video but wtf was with the order you went in? Why not go game by game, or in order the dungeons appear, or something logical like that? The random order really makes this video hard to enjoy especially because there's no rhyme or reason to it

Not sure if you end up correcting yourself later in the video, but the first dungeon in the windwaker is actually the forsaken fortress, not dragon roost cavern. edit: so apparently it's not even in the tierlist. I guess some might not consider it a dungeon since the format is so different? Still think it should've been taken into consideration when ranking dragon roost, since the argument was that it's not ranked in the easy tier due to being the first dungeon. At least for me personally, dragon roost cavern felt like a cakewalk after completing forsaken fortress when I was a kid and first played the game.

The hardest part about forbidden woods is that I had no idea you could climb your hookshot ropes. The game never taught you that. It's not needed to complete the dungeon, but it is needed to get all the chests. I actually didn't figure out how to climb ropes in the Wind Waker until the Ice Island when I fell into the water. The game probably should have mentioned this lol.

All the Devine dungeons are very easy, breath of the wild dungeons are a joke, an afterthought