2010s Video Games
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50 free 2010s Video Games trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The 2010s changed what a video game could be. Open worlds grew big enough to get lost in for a hundred hours, one-person indie projects outsold studio blockbusters, and a phone in every pocket turned commuters into players. This quiz covers the games that topped the decade's best-of lists and the ones everybody simply played: sprawling role-playing adventures, cinematic console exclusives, online shooters, mobile crazes and small indie surprises. Expect questions on heroes and villains, settings, the studios behind the hits and the odd stories of how they were made. It is pitched for anyone who owned a console, a gaming PC or just a smartphone in those years. Most questions are ones a casual player can reason out, with a few tougher ones for people who never stopped playing.
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Q 01Which company bought Minecraft developer Mojang in 2014 in a deal worth $2.5 billion?
Microsoft
Microsoft announced the deal in September 2014, and Minecraft went on to become the best-selling video game of all time.
Q 02Which fictional city, modelled on the real home of Hollywood, do players roam in Grand Theft Auto V?
Los Santos
Los Santos sits in the fictional state of San Andreas, which is based on Southern California and adds open countryside beyond the city limits.
Q 03Which studio, also the maker of the Unreal Engine, developed and released the online hit Fortnite?
Epic Games
Epic Games released Fortnite in 2017, and its Battle Royale mode drew more than 125 million players in less than a year.
Q 04Which studio, founded as a startup inside Google, originally developed the 2016 mobile hit Pokémon Go?
Niantic
Niantic had already built the location game Ingress, and many of Pokémon Go's real-world stops were adapted from places mapped for Ingress.
Q 05The Last of Us imagines a pandemic caused by a mutated form of which real genus of fungus?
Cordyceps
Cordyceps is the fungus behind the outbreak, which has ravaged the United States for twenty years by the time Joel escorts the immune teenager Ellie across the country.
Q 06Which 2011 Bethesda game casts the player as the Last Dragonborn, destined to defeat the dragon Alduin?
Skyrim
Skyrim's Dragonborn learns magical shouts by absorbing the souls of dead dragons, a gift the story credits to the god Akatosh.
Q 07The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was developed by CD Projekt Red, a studio based in which European country?
Poland
Poland's CD Projekt Red started out in 1994 by translating major foreign games into Polish, years before it built a hit of its own.
Q 08The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild was a 2017 launch game for which new console?
Nintendo Switch
Nintendo Switch buyers could play it on day one, yet the same game also arrived that day as the final Nintendo-published Wii U release.
Q 09Which Star Wars actor voiced the Joker in the 2011 superhero game Batman: Arkham City?
Mark Hamill
Mark Hamill won a BAFTA for the performance, having said beforehand that Arkham City would be his last outing as the Joker.
Q 10Flappy Bird's creator, who pulled the hit mobile game from app stores in 2014, came from which country?
Vietnam
Vietnam's Dong Nguyen removed Flappy Bird in February 2014, saying he felt guilty about how addictive the game had become.
Q 11Which green Minecraft monster, created by a botched pig model, sneaks up on players and explodes?
Creeper
The Creeper exists because Markus Persson accidentally swapped the length and height of the pig model, then chose to keep the error as a new monster.
Q 12Which outlaw of the Van der Linde gang do players control for most of Red Dead Redemption 2?
Arthur Morgan
Arthur Morgan is the gang's veteran enforcer in 1899, and only in the epilogue does control pass to John Marston, hero of the first game.
Q 13Which 2016 Blizzard hero shooter set two teams of six against each other, with characters such as Tracer?
Overwatch
Overwatch was named Game of the Year at The Game Awards in 2016, and Blizzard celebrated its first anniversary with a Game of the Year edition.
Q 21Which 2015 role-playing game by Toby Fox lets players spare every monster instead of killing them?
Undertale
Undertale was close to a one-person project: Fox wrote the script and the music himself, and paid for development through Kickstarter.
Q 22Which 2017 run and gun game copied the hand-drawn rubber hose look of 1930s cartoons?
Cuphead
Cuphead was made by Studio MDHR, a Canadian indie studio founded by the brothers Chad and Jared Moldenhauer.
Q 23Which 2019 indie hit from Australian studio House House turns the player loose to pester an English village?
Untitled Goose Game
Untitled Goose Game grew out of a stock photograph of a goose that one House House employee posted in the studio's internal chat.
Q 14Which 2011 Valve puzzle game introduced the talkative robot Wheatley, voiced by Stephen Merchant?
Portal 2
Portal 2 also added a cooperative campaign, in which two players solve test chambers together as the robots Atlas and P-Body.
Q 15Pokémon X and Y introduced which new type, the first added since Pokémon Gold and Silver?
Fairy
Fairy was handed to old Pokémon as well as new ones, and arrived alongside Mega Evolution and the main series' first fully polygonal 3D graphics.
Q 16Which studio, already known for Crash Bandicoot and Uncharted, released The Last of Us in 2013?
Naughty Dog
Naughty Dog made The Last of Us with a secondary team inside the studio, and unveiled it at the 2011 Spike Video Game Awards.
Q 17Which Japanese studio made Dark Souls, the 2011 game by Hidetaka Miyazaki that inspired the term Soulslike?
FromSoftware
FromSoftware turned Dark Souls into a trilogy, and its director Hidetaka Miyazaki rose to become the company's president in 2014.
Q 18In 2018's God of War, which son of Kratos helps in combat as the pair carry his mother's ashes?
Atreus
Atreus spends much of the story unaware that he is a demigod, because Kratos keeps his own past a secret from the boy.
Q 19Which 2015 game from Psyonix has jet-boosted cars knock an oversized ball into goals like indoor soccer?
Rocket League
Rocket League is the sequel to 2008's Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle-Cars, a far less famous game with a far longer name.
Q 20Which puzzle game, launched by King on Facebook in 2012, earned almost $1 million a day at its peak?
Candy Crush Saga
Candy Crush Saga can be finished without paying, so King's income came from players buying special actions to clear its harder boards.
Q 24Blizzard's 2014 digital card game Hearthstone is set within which older game universe?
Warcraft
Warcraft was in the card game's original subtitle, Heroes of Warcraft, and Hearthstone reuses the older series' characters and relics.
Q 25In 2014's Five Nights at Freddy's, the player works which job at a pizzeria full of homicidal animatronics?
Security guard
Security guard Mike Schmidt survives each shift by watching the cameras and locking a pair of steel doors against the animatronics.
Q 26Which young huntress is the hero of Horizon Zero Dawn, set in a land ruled by robotic machines?
Aloy
Aloy fronts the first open-world game by Guerrilla Games, which was also the studio's first new series since Killzone in 2004.
Q 27Assassin's Creed Odyssey, released by Ubisoft in 2018, has players exploring an open world set in which ancient land?
Greece
Greece is shown during the Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta, and the player is a Spartan mercenary who fights on both sides.
Q 28Which Call of Duty game, released by Treyarch in 2010, follows CIA operative Alex Mason during the Cold War?
Black Ops
Black Ops sold more than 5.6 million copies within 24 hours of going on sale, breaking the record held by Modern Warfare 2.
Q 29In Telltale's 2012 game The Walking Dead, which young girl does convicted criminal Lee Everett protect?
Clementine
Clementine and Lee's bond drew widespread praise, and the player's choices carry their consequences across all five episodes.
Q 30Which creator of Metal Gear directed Death Stranding, the 2019 debut of a studio newly split from Konami?
Hideo Kojima
Hideo Kojima cast the actor Norman Reedus as Sam Porter Bridges, a courier who hauls supplies between isolated colonies.