Ghost of Tsushima Trivia
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49 free Ghost of Tsushima trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Ghost of Tsushima was the game Sucker Punch made after nine years of Infamous, when the studio wanted melee combat and briefly considered pirates, Rob Roy and The Three Musketeers before a history of the 1274 Mongol invasion made everything click. Six years later it launched in July 2020, sold 2.4 million copies in three days, earned a perfect Famitsu score and got its directors named tourism ambassadors to the real island. These 49 questions cover the story — Jin Sakai, Lord Shimura, Yuna, the Straw Hats, Khotun Khan and the final duel — and the design: the four stances, guiding wind, yellow birds, foxes and haiku, Kurosawa mode, the Sanjuro-inspired standoff and the sword blanks borrowed from God of War. There are questions on the Legends multiplayer mode, the Iki Island expansion, the PC port, the film in development and the 2025 sequel Ghost of Yōtei. Easy questions stick to the characters and mechanics any player knows; the hard tier asks about cancelled prototypes, armor periods and the shrine fans helped rebuild. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation that adds one more detail.
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Q 01Before Ghost of Tsushima, Sucker Punch made its name with which PlayStation platform series?
Sly Cooper
Sly Cooper, a raccoon master thief, arrived in 2002 as the studio's first game for Sony, starting the partnership that ended with Sony buying Sucker Punch in 2011.
Q 02Tsushima, the island Jin Sakai defends, lies between Japan's main islands and which country?
South Korea
South Korea: Busan is only about 50 km away, which is why the Mongol fleet, sailing from Korea, struck Tsushima before any other Japanese territory.
Q 03Storms said to have wrecked the real Mongol fleets gave Japanese which word?
Kamikaze
Kamikaze was the name folklore gave the storms said to have wrecked Kublai Khan's fleets in 1274 and 1281; centuries later it was revived for Japan's suicide pilots.
Q 04Khotun Khan is written as a grandson of which historical ruler?
Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan's real grandson Kublai sent the fleets; Khotun, written as Kublai's cousin, is invented, because the developers chose not to put real historical figures in the game.
Q 05How is Lord Shimura related to Jin Sakai?
His uncle
His uncle: Shimura raised Jin as his ward and means to adopt him as heir, until Jin's methods as the Ghost lead Shimura to disown him.
Q 06Who finds and revives Jin after the disastrous battle at Komoda Beach in Ghost of Tsushima?
Yuna
Yuna, a thief, nurses him back to health in hiding, then asks him to rescue her captive brother; her stealthy methods become the Ghost's.
Q 07What is the trade of Taka in Ghost of Tsushima?
Blacksmith
Blacksmith: Taka forges the grappling hook that lets Jin scale the walls of Castle Kaneda and reach the captive Lord Shimura.
Q 08What is the name of the mercenary band led by Jin's childhood friend Ryuzo in Ghost of Tsushima?
The Straw Hats
The Straw Hats lose half their number to battle and hunger after the invasion, and it is the promise of food and a bounty that turns Ryuzo against Jin.
Q 09Which of these is one of the five great samurai clans in Ghost of Tsushima?
Clan Adachi
Clan Adachi is all but wiped out in the invasion; its sole survivor, Lady Masako, joins Jin in exchange for his help avenging her family.
Q 10Jin retakes Castle Shimura's keep by poisoning which Mongol staple?
Fermented milk
Fermented milk, the Mongols' airag, is what Jin poisons; the keep falls without another samurai lost, but Lord Shimura condemns the act as dishonour.
Q 11Where does Jin finally kill Khotun Khan?
On his flagship at Port Izumi
On his flagship at Port Izumi, where the Khan flees after losing their duel ashore; Lord Shimura's samurai, invited by a note Jin left, keep the Mongol army busy meanwhile.
Q 12At the end of Ghost of Tsushima, what does the defeated Lord Shimura ask Jin to grant him?
A warrior's death
A warrior's death is what he asks for, and the game leaves the answer to the player: grant it, or spare him and walk away. Either way Jin ends up hunted by the shogun.
Q 13Who voices Jin Sakai in English?
Daisuke Tsuji
Q 21In English, what form of poetry does Jin compose in Ghost of Tsushima?
Haiku
Haiku is the label used outside Japan, chosen because the form is known worldwide; the Japanese release calls the same poems waka, a far older tradition.
Q 22Which region of Tsushima is unlocked first?
Izuhara
Izuhara is the island's southernmost region and the whole of the first act; Toyotama and then Kamiagata open only as the story follows the Khan north.
Q 23Which director is Ghost of Tsushima's black-and-white mode named after?
Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa's estate agreed to lend his name to the mode, which adds film grain and old-fashioned audio as well as draining the colour.
Daisuke Tsuji is Jin's face as well as his English voice, while players who choose the Japanese track hear Kazuya Nakai instead.
Q 14Patrick Gallagher, the voice of Khotun Khan, drew on playing which conqueror in Night at the Museum?
Attila the Hun
Attila the Hun was a comic part, but Gallagher said its anger was true to the man; for a Khan who cannot go home having failed, he looked to The Godfather.
Q 15In Ghost of Tsushima, the Moon stance is made to beat which enemies?
Brutes
Brutes are what the Moon stance is for; Jin starts with only his family's Stone stance and works out the rest by watching or killing Mongol leaders.
Q 16In Ghost of Tsushima, which combat stance is designed to break shield-carrying enemies?
Water
Water stance exists because of them: Jin devises it in frustration when the sword techniques he has practised for decades fail against Mongol shieldmen.
Q 17In Ghost of Tsushima, what natural element guides the player to objectives instead of a compass?
Wind
Wind replaced an on-screen compass after the developers saw players staring at the icons rather than the island; a gust points the way while eyes stay on the world.
Q 18What color are the birds that lead Jin to points of interest in Ghost of Tsushima?
Yellow
Yellow: the guide is a black-naped oriole, picked because it lives in Japan and the audio lead had happened to record one's song on a holiday in Sri Lanka.
Q 19Which animals lead Jin to hidden shrines in Ghost of Tsushima?
Foxes
Foxes lead him to Inari shrines because the fox is held to be the messenger of Inari, the kami those shrines honour; afterwards Jin can usually pet his guide.
Q 20What do hot springs do for Jin in Ghost of Tsushima?
Raise his maximum health
Raise his maximum health: each soak adds a little, and while he bathes Jin reflects on a person or event of the player's choosing.
Q 24The ending of the samurai film Sanjuro inspired which Ghost of Tsushima combat mechanic?
Standoffs
Standoffs replay the film's last scene: two swordsmen face each other motionless, each waiting for the other to move first, and a single stroke ends it.
Q 25Which samurai comic influenced Ghost of Tsushima?
Usagi Yojimbo
Usagi Yojimbo, whose hero is a rabbit, was an early spark: the game's director read the comic, about a soft-spoken swordsman who solves the troubles of any town he walks into, and thought it would make a great game.
Q 26Which earlier game, where a raised sword points the way, helped inspire Ghost of Tsushima's navigation?
Shadow of the Colossus
Shadow of the Colossus was the model because waypoints felt like being led by the nose: its sword shows a direction, and the player still has to read the landscape to get there.
Q 27Who was the game director of Ghost of Tsushima?
Nate Fox
Nate Fox and creative director Jason Connell were later made permanent tourism ambassadors of the real Tsushima for spreading the island's name and history.
Q 28Before settling on feudal Japan, Sucker Punch weighed a sword-fighting game about which novel's heroes?
The Three Musketeers
The Three Musketeers, pirates and the Scottish outlaw Rob Roy were all on the list before an account of the 1274 invasion made the samurai idea click.
Q 29How does Jin lose the horse he named when he escapes Castle Shimura in Ghost of Tsushima?
Archers wound it fatally
Archers wound it fatally during the escape, and it carries Jin clear before it dies; it is the horse the player chose and named Nobu, Sora or Kage.
Q 30Ghost of Tsushima began when Sucker Punch moved on from which superhero series?
Infamous
Infamous was about a superhero, so its makers listed fantasies they had not yet built and stopped at 'samurai'; the result took six years, the studio's longest project.