Persona Games Trivia
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100 free Persona Games trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Atlus built Persona out of one well-liked idea: the high-school setting of Shin Megami Tensei If... The 1996 original was a PlayStation sleeper hit, but it was Persona 3, with its Evokers and Social Links, that turned a Megami Tensei spin-off into the franchise that now outsells its parent. Persona 4 moved the murders to a sleepy town near Mount Fuji, Persona 5 put masked thieves in Tokyo, and Persona 3 Reload sold a million copies in a week. These 100 questions cover all of it: the Velvet Room and its Twin Peaks inspiration, Igor's Frankenstein-named assistants, the colour schemes Shigenori Soejima picked for each game, Shoji Meguro's acid-jazz score, Arc System Works and the fighting-game spin-offs, Persona Q, Strikers, Royal and Golden, and the Joker who turned up in Super Smash Bros. Easy questions cover Evokers, Teddie and Morgana; the expert tier asks about localization choices, vocalists and the city Persona 2 takes place in. Every answer is cited to a page we checked, with a short explanation so you learn something even when you miss. Play it solo or use it for a JRPG night.
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Q 01Which company bought Persona's developer, Atlus, when its parent went bankrupt in 2013?
Sega
Sega won the auction for Atlus's parent, Index Corporation, which had filed for bankruptcy protection that June with debts of 24.5 billion yen. The deal, worth about 14 billion yen, kept the Atlus name alive.
Q 02Persona is a spin-off of which larger Atlus franchise?
Megami Tensei
Megami Tensei: Persona grew out of Shin Megami Tensei If..., a 1994 entry set in a high school. The first game was even titled Megami Ibunroku Persona in Japan to flag the link, a prefix later games dropped.
Q 03Revelations: Persona, the 1996 original, was released for which console?
PlayStation
PlayStation. The 1996 North American version renamed the cast, changed how several characters looked and cut the whole Snow Queen route; the 2009 PSP release undid those changes and restored the missing quest.
Q 04What is the gun-like device Persona 3's cast fire at their own heads to summon Personas?
An Evoker
An Evoker is the pistol-shaped device SEES members fire at their own heads; the gesture of facing death lets them summon their Personas.
Q 05What is the hidden time anomaly that SEES investigates in Persona 3?
The Dark Hour
The Dark Hour is a 25th hour hidden at midnight. Ordinary people turn into coffins and remember nothing of it, so the public has no idea it exists while Shadows hunt anyone left awake.
Q 06What is the name of the tower that serves as Persona 3's main dungeon?
Tartarus
Tartarus is what Gekkoukan High turns into each night: the school the cast attend by day becomes a labyrinthine tower full of Shadows, which they climb floor by floor toward the top.
Q 07Persona 4 takes place in which fictional rural town?
Inaba
Inaba is the sleepy town where the hero is sent from the city to live with his uncle for a year. Just after he arrives, a TV announcer is found dead, hanging from an antenna, and the murder mystery begins.
Q 08In which city is Persona 5 set?
Tokyo
Tokyo is where the hero is sent to serve a year's probation after being framed for assault and expelled. Shibuya and Shinjuku appear under their real names, but his own neighbourhood, Yongen-Jaya, is invented.
Q 09What do Persona 5's Phantom Thieves send a target before stealing their Treasure?
A calling card
A calling card. A Treasure is formless mist until its owner fears it will be stolen, so the warning is what makes it solid enough to take, and the thieves then have about a day to grab it.
Q 10In Persona 5, the hero spends his year on probation living in the attic of which café?
Leblanc
Leblanc is the backstreet café run by his gruff guardian, Sojiro Sakura, who slowly warms to him and teaches him to brew coffee and cook curry. Coffee made there restores SP on a heist.
Q 11Which creature guides Persona 4's Investigation Team through the fog of the TV world?
Teddie
Teddie is an empty bear suit who lives inside the TV world, and he lets the heroes leave only once they promise to find whoever is throwing people in. In Japan he is simply Kuma, 'bear'.
Q 12Which Phantom Thief can turn into a van to drive the team through the Metaverse?
Morgana
Morgana becomes a van to ferry the thieves around, and spends the story wondering what he really is. The ending reveals that he was created to guide the hero into the depths of Mementos.
Q 13In Persona 3, each major boss Shadow arrives on the night of which recurring event?
The full moon
Q 21Who designed the characters of the third, fourth and fifth mainline Persona games?
Shigenori Soejima
Shigenori Soejima started as an assistant to the series' first designer, drawing portraits and side characters for the early games, and was handed the art direction when the third game began.
Q 22Who designed the characters of the original Persona and the Persona 2 duology?
Kazuma Kaneko
Kazuma Kaneko drew the casts of the first three games, the original and both halves of Persona 2. He then stepped back and handed the series' art direction to the assistant who had drawn side characters under him.
Q 23Between Persona 4 and Persona 5, Katsura Hashino's team made which puzzle game about a man climbing nightmare towers?
The full moon. SEES is told that beating all twelve of these Shadows will end the nightly menace, but their adviser was lying: each kill reunites pieces of a being that heralds the end of the world.
Q 14What is the enhanced Social Link system in Persona 5 called?
Confidants
Confidants are treated as accomplices in the thieves' work, which is why the Japanese version calls them 'Co-op'. Each rank pays off with a practical perk, either in battle or in the hero's daily life.
Q 15Which colour defines Persona 5's interface and art direction?
Red
Red follows blue for the third game and yellow for the fourth. To keep it pure, the designers dropped the secondary colours earlier menus had used, leaving almost everything in red, black and white.
Q 16Which composer scored Persona 3, 4 and 5?
Shoji Meguro
Shoji Meguro filled those three soundtracks with vocal pop, rock and jazz. In October 2021 he left the company to go freelance, though he still writes music for some of its games.
Q 17Which recurring track is the theme of the Velvet Room?
"Aria of the Soul"
'Aria of the Soul' once had performers on screen: in the earliest games a pianist and an opera singer lived in the Velvet Room. From the third numbered game on the tune stayed, but the musicians were gone.
Q 18Who is the long-nosed old man who runs the Velvet Room?
Igor
Igor has an impostor in Persona 5: the one players meet for most of the game is really the god Yaldabaoth, who has locked the real one away and taken his place.
Q 19The Velvet Room was based on a location from which TV series?
Twin Peaks
Twin Peaks: the artist behind the room has said he liked how the show's Black Lodge was designed and built his own version of it for the game.
Q 20The Velvet Room's attendants are named after characters from which novel?
Frankenstein
Frankenstein lends Elizabeth, Margaret, Justine and Caroline their names. Their master is the odd one out: his name is nowhere in Mary Shelley's book.
Catherine
Catherine was the Persona team's first game for high-definition consoles, and its director later described it as a trial run for building the next Persona on that kind of hardware.
Q 24Which Atlus team, set up by Persona 5's director after that game shipped, made Metaphor: ReFantazio?
Studio Zero
Studio Zero was unveiled in December 2016 with a fantasy RPG codenamed Project Re Fantasy, which its founder warned would 'take a long time until completion'. It did: the game arrived almost eight years later.
Q 25Which fighting-game studio co-developed Persona 4 Arena?
Arc System Works
Arc System Works, the BlazBlue studio, did not pitch for the job: Persona's own team wanted a fighting game and approached it, to its producer's shock. The result is a sequel, set two months after Persona 4.
Q 26Persona Q blends the series with which first-person dungeon-crawler franchise?
Etrian Odyssey
Etrian Odyssey lent Persona Q its first-person labyrinths and its signature chore: players draw their own maps, wall by wall, as they explore. The director of Etrian Odyssey IV led the project.
Q 27Persona 5 Strikers crosses the series with which Koei Tecmo franchise?
Dynasty Warriors
Dynasty Warriors' developer, Omega Force, co-built Strikers, so turn-based battles give way to real-time action. It is a true sequel too: months later, the thieves reunite for a summer trip across Japan.
Q 28What major option did Persona 3 Portable add to the game?
A female protagonist
A female protagonist changes more than the hero's look: her route has its own Social Links, a redesigned first Persona, and the option to swap Elizabeth for a male Velvet Room attendant, Theodore.
Q 29Persona 4 Golden was originally released for which handheld?
PlayStation Vita
PlayStation Vita was its only home for eight years. When a PC port finally arrived in 2020, sales ran far ahead of its publisher's forecasts, and the company said it would bring more of its older games to PC.
Q 30Which new Phantom Thief does Persona 5 Royal add?
Kasumi Yoshizawa
Kasumi Yoshizawa is the name she arrives with, a gymnast who fights as Violet. In Royal's new third semester it turns out to be borrowed: she is really the younger sister, Sumire, living under her dead sibling's name.