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40 free Oxenfree trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Oxenfree starts as a teen drama and turns into a ghost story. Alex takes a handheld radio to an overnight party on Edwards Island, tunes into the wrong frequency, and spends the hours until dawn dealing with voices that should not be there, time that will not run straight, and friends who are not always themselves. This quiz covers the whole game: who the ghosts are and how they came to haunt the island, what Maggie Adler knew, the choices that shape the endings, and the teenagers at the center of the story. It also goes behind the scenes, with questions on the developers, the voice cast, the influences and the soundtrack, and a few on the sequel, Oxenfree II: Lost Signals. It is written for players who have finished the game at least once. Some questions are easy if you paid attention in the first hour; others reward anyone who dug up every letter and tuned into every hidden frequency.
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Q 01The cry 'olly olly oxen free', echoed in Oxenfree's title, belongs to which playground game?
Hide-and-seek
Hide-and-seek players shout it to tell anyone still hiding that they can come out without losing, and nobody knows for certain where the phrase came from.
Q 02What color is the dyed hair of Alex, the radio-carrying teenage heroine of Oxenfree?
Teal
Teal is dyed over natural auburn, the shade her hair still has in the game's memory sequences.
Q 03In Oxenfree, how is Jonas related to Alex, who first meets him on the day of the island trip?
Her stepbrother
Her stepbrother joined the family when Alex's mother remarried a widower she had met at a resort in Orlando.
Q 04How do Alex, Ren and Jonas reach Edwards Island for the overnight party that opens Oxenfree?
By ferry
By ferry: the friends catch the last one of the day, and the story closes with the group riding it home.
Q 05In Oxenfree, what actually sank the USS Kanaloa, the submarine whose crew haunt Edwards Island?
Friendly fire
Friendly fire sank the Kanaloa after its scrambled message was mistaken for an enemy transmission, leaving the crew trapped rather than dead.
Q 06What experimental technology aboard Oxenfree's USS Kanaloa sent its crew to another dimension?
A nuclear reactor
A nuclear reactor imploded when the submarine was hit, and Maggie Adler worked out that all aboard were trapped outside time and space.
Q 07The glowing rifts that Alex opens with her radio in Oxenfree take which geometric shape?
A triangle
A triangle forms every rift, and Alex opens one by tuning her radio to the corners of the shape.
Q 08Which Glendale, California developer, founded in 2014, released Oxenfree as its debut game?
Night School Studio
Night School Studio began with such a tight budget that it could only afford to make a single game.
Q 09Which streaming giant bought Oxenfree's developer in 2021, its first purchase of a game studio?
Netflix
Netflix made the studio its first game acquisition and went on to publish Oxenfree II two years later.
Q 10How did Michael, the brother whose red jacket Alex wears in Oxenfree, die before the story begins?
Drowning
Drowning at Horn Lake killed Michael on a last swimming trip with Alex, who could not swim well enough to help him.
Q 11In Oxenfree, what do the ghosts offer Alex through a possessed Jonas if she leaves Clarissa behind?
To spare everyone else
To spare everyone else is the bargain, and in the final cave scene Alex can walk out and let Clarissa be erased from existence.
Q 12In Oxenfree, who is the reflection that gives Alex advice from mirrors and pools of water?
Her future self
Her future self is the adviser in the glass, a product of the same looping time that lets Alex revisit old talks with her brother.
Q 13During Oxenfree's time loops, what device must Alex wind to the right speed to set time straight?
A tape recorder
Q 21In Oxenfree, where was Jonas sent after beating up a boy who threw a baseball at his head?
Juvenile detention
Juvenile detention followed an outburst while his mother was terminally ill, though he first claims he has never been locked up.
Q 22In Oxenfree, Maggie Adler decided the trapped Kanaloa crew's minds had regressed to those of what?
Children
Children was her verdict, after hearing confused wording and a reliance on game logic in the broadcasts she decoded.
Q 23The submarine USS Kanaloa in Oxenfree takes its name from a sea god of which culture's mythology?
Hawaiian
Hawaiian tradition makes Kanaloa a god of the ocean, symbolized by the squid or the octopus.
A tape recorder appears whenever time snags, and the game's own audio was run through old cassette decks and reel-to-reel machines.
Q 14Oxenfree's creators set out to tell a branching story without which staple of narrative games?
Cutscenes
Cutscenes were ruled out so players could keep moving and exploring during every conversation, a design known as walk and talk.
Q 15In Oxenfree, Alex's possible replies appear on screen in what form while she keeps walking?
Speech bubbles
Speech bubbles can be left unanswered, so staying silent is always a choice, and one achievement rewards finishing the game without a word.
Q 16Which 1986 coming-of-age film did Oxenfree's creators cite as an influence on its story?
Stand by Me
Stand by Me influenced the characters and story, and the team wanted meeting the ghosts to carry a Spielberg-style sense of wonder before things get crazy.
Q 17Lindsay Weir, the biggest outside influence on Oxenfree's Alex, comes from which TV series?
Freaks and Geeks
Freaks and Geeks supplied the model for Alex, while her outfit came from the game's artist, who dressed her in clothes from her own youth.
Q 18Which voice actor plays Oxenfree's lead Alex, in a cast whose lines were all recorded separately?
Erin Yvette
Erin Yvette recorded alone, like the whole cast: the actors voiced their lines separately and out of order, and conversations were stitched together afterwards.
Q 19What instrument does Ren, Alex's excitable best friend in Oxenfree, play in his garage band?
Bass guitar
Bass guitar is his instrument, and the game's collector's edition came with a cassette demo by his band.
Q 20Nona, the friend Ren has a crush on in Oxenfree, often skips class to practice what?
Ballet
Ballet matters more to her than lessons, and in endings where she and Ren do not become a couple she goes on to a ballet academy.
Q 24Which abandoned Army base on Oxenfree's Edwards Island once trained troops in broadcasting?
Fort Milner
Fort Milner was a military base from 1941 to 1974, and its ruins are now a regular hangout for local kids.
Q 25Where do Alex and her friends gather before exploring the cave that starts Oxenfree's haunting?
Beacon Beach
Beacon Beach hosts the junior class's yearly overnight stay, a custom that grew out of bored army recruits bringing dates to the island.
Q 26Oxenfree's hidden radio anomalies are found beside what small markers left by earlier students?
Stacks of rocks
Stacks of rocks, or cairns, mark the twelve anomalies, and finding every one earns the Ghost Stories achievement.
Q 27In Oxenfree, radio messages from Anna Shea, Maggie Adler's vanished friend, arrive in what form?
Morse code
Morse code carries her messages, which start out clear and grow harder to read as she loses her identity inside the rift.
Q 28In Oxenfree, what post did Maggie Adler hold on Edwards Island when the Kanaloa went down?
Communications officer
Communications officer was her post, taken straight out of college, and she stayed for life as the island's only permanent resident.
Q 29In Oxenfree, what do the stranded teens hope to find at Maggie Adler's estate to escape?
A boat
A boat was kept at the estate, the only private home on the island, so the group hunts for the key after their call for help fails.
Q 30In Oxenfree II: Lost Signals, Riley returns to which coastal hometown to plant radio transmitters?
Camena
Camena is also where Alex and her friends grew up, and the sequel lets players explore a town the first game only talked about.