NieR: Automata
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50 free NieR: Automata trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
NieR: Automata looks like a stylish action game about androids fighting robots, and then spends three playthroughs quietly taking that premise apart. Released in 2017, it turned a cult series into a mainstream hit and left players arguing about what its androids, its Machines and its many endings actually mean. This quiz covers the whole of it. There are questions on 2B, 9S and A2 and what their model designations really stand for; on the supporting cast at the Resistance camp and in the Machine village; on the twists of the story; and on how the combat, upgrades and genre-switching sections work. A further set looks behind the scenes at the director, artists, composer and voice cast, the odd inspirations they have admitted to, and the anime, manga and crossover appearances that followed. It is written for people who have finished the game at least once, but newcomers who know 2B from fan art and fighting-game guest spots will find plenty they can reason out. Expect story spoilers throughout.
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Q 01After NieR: Automata's last ending, what can players sacrifice to help strangers beat the credits?
Their save data
Their save data is wiped if they accept, and in return a message of encouragement reaches another player struggling through the same sequence.
Q 02Critics read the designation of NieR: Automata heroine 2B as a nod to which Shakespeare tragedy?
Hamlet
Hamlet gives the name its echo of the prince's famous soliloquy, and one reviewer called it a sign of the game's obsession with existentialist philosophy.
Q 03NieR: Automata was first pitched as NieR: Android until which tech giant's trademark got in the way?
Google owns the Android operating system name, so Square Enix turned down the director's first-choice title to avoid a possible trademark conflict.
Q 04Which drinks brand's vending machines linking India and Pakistan inspired NieR: Automata's finale?
Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola linked machines in the two countries by livestream to nudge people past a political rivalry, and the director reworked the idea into encouraging messages between players.
Q 05Where are the androids of NieR: Automata told that the last surviving humans have taken refuge?
On the Moon
On the Moon is where the Council of Humanity supposedly sits, the body in whose name the YoRHa androids fight to reclaim Earth from the Machines.
Q 06Which Japanese studio said NieR: Automata's strong sales rescued it after a run of disappointments?
PlatinumGames
PlatinumGames developed the game for Square Enix, whose sales expectations it greatly exceeded, and the hit renewed interest in the studio's other work.
Q 07Producer Yosuke Saito asked that 2B's design in NieR: Automata be fun for fans of which hobby?
Cosplay
Cosplay was part of the brief from the start: the artist was given a guideline of sleek black designs and asked for a heroine people would enjoy dressing up as.
Q 08NieR: Automata was first planned as a mobile or PlayStation Vita title inspired by which casual hit?
FarmVille
FarmVille was the model the team first had in mind, before development shifted to the PlayStation 4 and a far more action-heavy design.
Q 09Which NieR: Automata director dislikes being photographed and usually wears a mask in interviews?
Yoko Taro
Yoko Taro wrote the story as well as directing, and once gave a video interview through a glove puppet rather than show his face.
Q 10Yui Ishikawa, Japanese voice of 2B in NieR: Automata, also plays Mikasa Ackerman in which anime?
Attack on Titan
Attack on Titan gave her one of her biggest roles, and for 2B she began recording before the cutscenes were finished, trusting the director's guidance over a story she only half knew.
Q 11What name is given to the orbiting base that commands the YoRHa androids of NieR: Automata?
The Bunker
The Bunker is a reconnaissance base circling Earth, and its destruction in the third playthrough leaves 2B and 9S cut off from the rest of YoRHa.
Q 12What are the floating, box-shaped robots that give NieR: Automata's androids ranged fire called?
Pods
Pods do more than shoot: after the main endings, units 042 and 153 defy an order to erase YoRHa's records and rebuild the three heroes instead.
Q 13Which special ability sets 9S apart from 2B and A2 in NieR: Automata's combat?
Hacking
Hacking fits his role as a reconnaissance model: where 2B alternates between two weapons, 9S pairs light strikes with breaking into enemy systems.
Q 21Which Bravely Default artist designed 2B and the other lead characters of NieR: Automata?
Akihiko Yoshida
Akihiko Yoshida was thought too busy to take the job, but he signed on because so many colleagues at his own studio were fans of the first Nier.
Q 22Which Tekken 3 composer led the NieR: Automata soundtrack with his own studio, Monaca?
Keiichi Okabe
Keiichi Okabe founded Monaca in 2004 after struggling as a freelancer, and wrote the soundtrack so that its songs flow into one another as the player moves between areas.
Q 23Which NieR: Automata theme song has its chorus sung by the development team in the last ending?
Weight of the World
Q 14Which blade was 2B given to add a hint of myth and magic to NieR: Automata's sci-fi setting?
A katana
A katana was chosen for exactly that contrast, and 2B's graceful way of swinging it came from a designer who imagined a dancing woman when building the combat.
Q 15Which NieR: Automata upgrades add abilities, grant buffs and can even alter the on-screen display?
Plug-in chips
Plug-in chips update the Words system of the original Nier to suit androids, and each character can fit only as many as their slots allow.
Q 16Which original Nier character returns in NieR: Automata, memories lost after endless self-copying?
Emil
Emil cloned himself again and again to fight the invaders, and a group of those copies, driven mad by losing their sense of self, forms the game's secret boss.
Q 17Which shunned twins from the original Nier do the riskier jobs at NieR: Automata's Resistance camp?
Devola and Popola
Devola and Popola were programmed to feel endless guilt for their model line's part in the first game's catastrophe, and they give their lives to open the tower for 9S.
Q 18What does the S stand for in the designation of 9S, NieR: Automata's reconnaissance android?
Scanner
Scanner models are built for investigation rather than front-line fighting, which is why curious, talkative 9S keeps uncovering things YoRHa would prefer stayed hidden.
Q 19What does the E stand for in 2E, the true designation hidden behind 2B in NieR: Automata?
Executioner
Executioner units police YoRHa itself: 2B's standing order is to kill 9S and wipe his memories each time he learns too much, which is why she keeps him at a distance.
Q 20What informal nickname does 9S, the talkative partner of 2B in NieR: Automata, also go by?
Nines
Nines stuck with fans and cast alike: his English voice actor dubbed the embittered, vengeful 9S of the later story emo Nines.
Weight of the World was recorded in different versions by J'Nique Nicole, Emi Evans and Marina Kawano before the staff themselves joined in for the closing one.
Q 24NieR: Automata earned three nominations at The Game Awards 2017 but won in only which category?
Best Score/Music
Best Score/Music was its only win that night: Best Role Playing Game went to Persona 5 and Best Narrative to What Remains of Edith Finch.
Q 25Which fighting game added NieR: Automata's 2B as a guest in 2018, with a white variant called 2P?
Soulcalibur VI
Soulcalibur VI got her after she was considered for Tekken 7, and the director joked that the P in her white 2P costume stood for Panasonic.
Q 26YoRHa: Dark Apocalypse, outlined by NieR: Automata's director, is a storyline in which online RPG?
Final Fantasy XIV
Final Fantasy XIV ran the crossover in three parts of its Shadowbringers expansion between 2019 and 2021, and 2B's outfit became a popular item there.
Q 27Which studio animated NieR: Automata Ver1.1a, the anime whose broadcast the pandemic delayed twice?
A-1 Pictures
A-1 Pictures was handed the game's own CG character models as a starting point, and sometimes simplified the clothing so it was manageable to animate.
Q 28NieR: Automata is set in an alternative timeline of which series known for dragon-flight combat?
Drakengard
Drakengard shares its dark tone and branching storylines with the Nier games, though nothing in the plot connects it directly to the androids' war.
Q 29NieR: Automata designer Takahisa Taura went on to direct which 2019 Nintendo Switch action game?
Astral Chain
Astral Chain so impressed producer Yosuke Saito that he asked for a Switch port of the android epic to mark its fifth anniversary.
Q 30To direct NieR: Automata on site, its freelance director had to move from Tokyo to which city?
Osaka
Osaka is home to the developer, which agreed to make the sequel only if he directed it and stayed close at hand to help with production.