50 free Persona Games trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Aug 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 50 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 primarily develops the Persona series?
Atlus
Atlus is now owned by Sega, which took over Western publishing after the 2016 merger of Atlus USA with Sega of America.
Q 02Persona is a spin-off of which larger Atlus franchise?
Megami Tensei
It grew out of the well-received high-school setting of Shin Megami Tensei If... on the Super Famicom.
Q 03Revelations: Persona, the 1996 original, was released for which console?
PlayStation
It was the first role-playing Megami Tensei game to leave Japan; its heavily altered localization was redone for the 2009 PSP port.
Q 04What is the gun-like device Persona 3's cast fire at their own heads to summon Personas?
An Evoker
The ritual earned the game a "most controversial game that created no controversy" award from 1UP.com.
Q 05What is the hidden time anomaly that SEES investigates in Persona 3?
The Dark Hour
SEES stands for Specialized Extracurricular Execution Squad, the school club that doubles as a monster-hunting unit.
Q 06What is the name of the tower that serves as Persona 3's main dungeon?
Tartarus
It can only be visited in the evening, and absent party members can keep you from climbing on a given night.
Q 07Persona 4 takes place in which fictional rural town?
Inaba
The staff went "location hunting" and modelled it on a town on the outskirts of Mount Fuji, deliberately a "nowhere" place.
Q 08In which city is Persona 5 set?
Tokyo
Its main locations were based heavily on real counterparts; the hero lives above a café in the fictional Yongen-Jaya.
Q 09What do Persona 5's vigilante students call their group?
The Phantom Thieves of Hearts
The other three are real Persona groups too: Persona 4's party, the SEES survivors in Arena, and the freedom fighters of Tactica.
Q 10What is the codename of Persona 5's protagonist?
Joker
Players can rename him; Xander Mobus voices him in English and he even appears as a skin in Overwatch.
Q 11Which friendly creature in a hollow bear costume guides Persona 4's party?
Teddie
His Japanese name is Kuma; the localizers renamed him for Western familiarity.
Q 12Which cat-like creature joins Joker, Ryuji and Ann as a founding Phantom Thief?
Morgana
The ending reveals Morgana was created to lead the Phantom Thieves into the depths of Mementos.
Q 13Which game introduced the Social Link system to the series?
Persona 3
They were called "Community" in Japanese; the English name came from Igor's talk of "society" and "bonds".
Q 21Who has been the series' character designer from Persona 3 onwards?
Shigenori Soejima
He also designed Persona 5's protagonist, which he called his most challenging recent work, and the chibi cast of Persona Q.
Q 22Who designed the characters of the original Persona and the Persona 2 duology?
Kazuma Kaneko
Kaneko handed the series to his protégé so he would not imprint his own style on it, and to give him experience.
Q 23Which director led Persona 3, 4 and 5 at Atlus?
Katsura Hashino
He pitched Persona 3 in 2003 after directing Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne.
Q 14What is the enhanced Social Link system in Persona 5 called?
Confidants
Strikers drops it entirely in favour of Requests and a BOND level shared by the whole party.
Q 15Which colour defines Persona 5's interface and art direction?
Red
Soejima called blue the colour of adolescence for Persona 3 and yellow the colour of happiness for Persona 4.
Q 16Which composer is most associated with the Persona series?
Shoji Meguro
He joined Atlus in 1995, and his very first track for the series became the recurring Velvet Room theme.
Q 17Which recurring track is the theme of the Velvet Room?
"Aria of the Soul"
Meguro kept it almost unchanged across games because "the shape of the song had been well-defined".
Q 18Who is the long-nosed old man who runs the Velvet Room?
Igor
In Persona 5 the Igor players meet for most of the game is actually Yaldabaoth, who has imprisoned the real one.
Q 19The Velvet Room was based on a location from which TV series?
Twin Peaks
Specifically the Black Lodge; the room changes form depending on the psyche of its current guest.
Q 20Igor and his Velvet Room assistants are named after characters from which novel?
Frankenstein
Elizabeth, Theodore, Margaret, Caroline, Justine and Lavenza all trace back to Mary Shelley's book and its adaptations.
Q 24Which new Atlus department did Hashino found after Persona 5 shipped in 2016?
Studio Zero
Its first original game was the fantasy RPG Metaphor: ReFantazio in 2024.
Q 25Which fighting-game studio co-developed Persona 4 Arena?
Arc System Works
Hashino approached them after being impressed by BlazBlue; Arena was the series' first non-RPG.
Q 26Persona Q blends the series with which first-person dungeon-crawler franchise?
Etrian Odyssey
It was the first Persona game built for a Nintendo platform, and its team mixed Etrian Odyssey IV and Persona staff.
Q 27Persona 5 Strikers crosses the series with which Koei Tecmo franchise?
Dynasty Warriors
Omega Force co-developed it; the story picks up half a year after Persona 5 and it passed two million sales by 2023.
Q 28What major option did Persona 3 Portable add to the game?
A female protagonist
Choosing her swaps Elizabeth for a male attendant, Theodore, and changes some Social Link stories.
Q 29Persona 4 Golden was originally released for which handheld?
PlayStation Vita
A PSP version would have cut too much content; the game ended up boosting Vita sales.
Q 30Which new Phantom Thief does Persona 5 Royal add?
Kasumi Yoshizawa
Hifumi was once planned as a thief in the original game but was cut to an optional Confidant.