Mass Effect: Andromeda
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50 free Mass Effect: Andromeda trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Mass Effect: Andromeda sent a new hero six hundred years and one galaxy away from everything the series had built. The Ryder twins woke up to failing planets, a hostile empire and a crew with plenty of opinions, and players have argued about the result ever since. This quiz covers the whole journey: the Pathfinder's crew and who can romance whom, the dates and flings that fans remember, the kett, the angara and the Remnant, the planets of the Heleus Cluster, the voice cast, and the long, difficult road the game took through development. It is written for anyone who has finished the campaign, with a few tougher questions for players who chased every side quest. Each answer comes with a short explanation, so a wrong guess still teaches something.
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Q 01Which veteran actor voices Alec Ryder, the twins' father and humanity's Pathfinder, in Mass Effect: Andromeda?
Clancy Brown
Clancy Brown, also the voice of Mr. Krabs in SpongeBob SquarePants, plays the twins' father. Alec's face is generated automatically from whatever look the player gives his children.
Q 02Which Game of Thrones actress voices the asari doctor aboard Ryder's ship in Mass Effect: Andromeda?
Natalie Dormer
Natalie Dormer, the show's Margaery Tyrell, plays the ship's physician, a 275-year-old asari with a dry sense of humour who watches over the crew's physical and mental health.
Q 03Which Silicon Valley star voices Jarun Tann, the director of the Andromeda Initiative, in Mass Effect: Andromeda?
Kumail Nanjiani
Kumail Nanjiani plays the bureaucrat, a revenue official who became director only because the seven leaders ranked above him all died in a single disaster.
Q 04Which feature of Mass Effect: Andromeda was mocked in viral clips and memes during its ten-hour early-access trial?
Facial animations
Facial animations drew ridicule within days, and a patch the next month improved lip-syncing. BioWare also condemned the abuse aimed at a former EA employee wrongly named as a lead developer.
Q 05What is the name of the scout ship that Ryder commands as Pathfinder in Mass Effect: Andromeda?
Tempest
The Tempest is flown by a pilot who has served aboard since its early prototype days. Ryder chooses each destination from a galaxy map on its bridge.
Q 06Which six-wheeled all-terrain vehicle does Ryder drive across open-world planets in Mass Effect: Andromeda?
Nomad
The Nomad was inspired by the Mako of the first game but carries no mounted weapons, because the Initiative was planned as a peaceful exploration project.
Q 07Which Mass Effect: Andromeda character did a post-launch patch open up as a romance for a male Ryder?
Jaal Ama Darav
Jaal Ama Darav could at first be romanced only by a female Ryder. BioWare changed that in June 2017 after fan feedback, noting that the angara are fluid in how they perceive gender.
Q 08Which hero of the original trilogy did BioWare decide early on to leave out of Mass Effect: Andromeda?
Commander Shepard
Commander Shepard was ruled out at the very start, which freed the team to rework long-standing systems. A prequel was also considered, then dropped after feedback from fans and focus groups.
Q 09BioWare kept the new alien species of Mass Effect: Andromeda humanoid partly so that fans could do what?
Cosplay as them
Cosplay as them, the designers hoped: jellyfish-like body plans gave way to humanoid ones. Budget limits then cut the five to ten proposed native species down to three.
Q 10The Remnant glyph puzzles that unlock vaults in Mass Effect: Andromeda play like which popular logic puzzle?
Sudoku
Sudoku is the closest match, played with alien symbols instead of numbers. Remnant Decryption Keys let a stuck player bypass most of the puzzles and enter the solution automatically.
Q 11Which space station serves as the Andromeda Initiative's seat of government in Mass Effect: Andromeda?
The Nexus
The Nexus was built as a hub where colonists could live until their new worlds were ready. Ryder arrives to find it unfinished, short of supplies and shaken by civil unrest.
Q 12What is the name of the artificial intelligence linked to the Pathfinder's implant in Mass Effect: Andromeda?
SAM
SAM, short for Simulated Adaptive Matrix, was designed by Alec Ryder himself. It sees and feels what the Pathfinder does, and the whole team can talk to it through their implants.
Q 13Which ark carries the human colonists, the Ryder twins among them, to the Heleus Cluster in Mass Effect: Andromeda?
Hyperion
Q 21On which radiation-scarred desert world does Ryder found the first successful outpost in Mass Effect: Andromeda?
Eos
Eos had already defeated two earlier colony sites, undone by radiation storms and kett attacks, before Ryder founded the outpost of Prodromos there.
Q 22Which revered angaran scientist, an expert on the Remnant, does Ryder free from the kett in Mass Effect: Andromeda?
Moshae Sjefa
Moshae Sjefa is the angara's foremost expert on Remnant technology. Her rescue also shows Ryder the grim truth about where kett soldiers come from.
Q 23Which planet's lawless port, a haven for Initiative exiles, do the Outcasts control in Mass Effect: Andromeda?
Kadara
Hyperion carries 20,000 humans in cryo sleep. After a crash-landing at the end of the story, the ark stays where it fell and becomes the heart of humanity's new home.
Q 14What title does the kett leader who abducts Ryder's twin hold in Mass Effect: Andromeda?
The Archon
The Archon commands the kett in Heleus and is obsessed with Remnant technology. A post-credits scene shows his second-in-command, the Primus, watching from afar.
Q 15Which krogan squadmate, over 1,400 years old, is the grandfather of the superintendent Kesh in Mass Effect: Andromeda?
Nakmor Drack
Nakmor Drack has been a soldier, a mercenary and at times a pirate, and his many injuries have left him with extensive prosthetics and synthetic organs.
Q 16On the toxic planet Habitat 7, what does Alec Ryder give up to save his child in Mass Effect: Andromeda?
His helmet
His helmet goes to Ryder, whose own was cracked by a blast, and Alec dies in the poisonous air. Ryder wakes later to learn that the role of Pathfinder has passed to them.
Q 17What happens to Ryder's twin when the human ark strikes a dark energy cloud at the start of Mass Effect: Andromeda?
Left in a coma
Left in a coma, the unchosen twin sleeps through much of the story before playing a key part in the finale. New Game Plus lets the player swap and play as the other sibling.
Q 18What is the default first name of the female Ryder twin in Mass Effect: Andromeda?
Sara
Sara is voiced by Fryda Wolff and her brother Scott by Tom Taylorson. Players who keep the default first name will sometimes hear other characters say it aloud instead of just Ryder.
Q 19Which piece of gear does Ryder use to get around battlefields quickly in Mass Effect: Andromeda?
A jetpack
A jetpack lets Ryder dash sideways and leap into the air mid-fight. The old option to pause and aim powers from a menu was dropped too, so every fight runs in real time.
Q 20Which squadmate, a biotic who served with asari commandos, can only a male Ryder romance in Mass Effect: Andromeda?
Cora Harper
Cora Harper spent four years with an asari commando unit before signing on as second-in-command of the Pathfinder team. She gently turns down a female Ryder's flirting.
Kadara was first settled by the angara, and sulphide minerals make its water toxic. A rival gang, the Collective, schemes to take the port for itself.
Q 24What do the kett call the process that turns captured angara into new kett in Mass Effect: Andromeda?
Exaltation
Exaltation overwrites a victim's genes until nothing of the original remains. It is the only way the kett can replenish their numbers, and it works on animals as well as people.
Q 25What is the dark energy cloud that cripples ships and ruins planets across Heleus called in Mass Effect: Andromeda?
The Scourge
The Scourge was unleashed centuries ago when a weapon was detonated on a Remnant station. It wrecks most technology it touches, yet element zero can be harvested from it at great expense.
Q 26Which game engine was Mass Effect: Andromeda built on, forcing BioWare to remake its tools from scratch?
Frostbite
Frostbite, made by EA DICE, was not designed with role-playing games in mind, so BioWare had to rebuild what the trilogy's Unreal Engine had supplied. Dragon Age: Inquisition had made the same hard switch first.
Q 27Which city's BioWare studio led development of Mass Effect: Andromeda instead of the Edmonton team behind the trilogy?
Montreal
Montreal housed a new BioWare team, and many of its developers had joined specifically to work on a Mass Effect game. The Austin studio lent a hand as well.
Q 28Where aboard Ryder's ship does Peebee suggest no-strings zero-gravity flings in Mass Effect: Andromeda?
The escape pod
The escape pod beside the bridge doubles as Peebee's quarters. The flings can carry on even while Ryder is courting someone else, until another romance is locked in.
Q 29Which smuggler, a romance option for either Ryder, is unmasked as the Charlatan in Mass Effect: Andromeda?
Reyes Vidal
Reyes Vidal hides his role as leader of the Collective gang until he confronts the rival boss of the exiles' port, a twist that blindsides even Ryder.
Q 30Which morale-boosting event does Liam Kosta ask Ryder to organise for the crew in Mass Effect: Andromeda?
A movie night
A movie night sounds simple, but the crew keep adding demands first: snacks, better snacks, drinks, a sound system and finally a different film.