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50 free PlayStation 4 trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
The PlayStation 4 arrived in 2013 and became one of the most successful consoles ever sold, and its biggest games sold in the tens of millions. Some were Sony's own cinematic adventures, some were blockbusters that topped the charts on every machine going, and a few were surprises nobody saw coming. This quiz is built around the PS4's best sellers and most popular games: the heroes, settings, studios and stories behind the titles at the top of the sales charts, along with the standout releases of 2016 and the hits everyone seemed to be playing. There are also questions on the console itself, from its controller to its launch, and a nod to the quiz-show games that turned living rooms into television studios. It is pitched for anyone who owned a PS4 or watched someone else play one. Most questions are friendly, every answer comes with a short explanation worth retelling, and a handful are reserved for players who finished everything on the hardest setting.
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Q 01God of War's 2018 PS4 reboot moved Kratos out of Greek myth and into which mythology?
Norse
Norse mythology won out after the studio also weighed an Egyptian setting. Kratos swapped Mount Olympus for the wilds of ancient Scandinavia, with his son Atreus fighting at his side.
Q 02Which superhero's 2018 PS4 game became the fastest-selling first-party release in Sony's history?
Spider-Man
Spider-Man sold 3.3 million copies in its first three days, narrowly beating a record set months earlier by God of War. Insomniac's game went on to pass 20 million copies on PS4.
Q 03Which new DualShock 4 button replaced Select and opened the PS4's screenshot and video tools?
Share
Share let players scroll back through up to 60 minutes of recorded play to pick a clip or screenshot worth posting. Its neighbour, Options, took over from the old Start button.
Q 04Which game did Sony remove from the PlayStation Store for six months after a troubled launch on PS4?
Cyberpunk 2077
Cyberpunk 2077 vanished from the store from December 2020 to June 2021 while its developer patched the console versions. Sony offered refunds to everyone who had bought it there.
Q 05Which type of disc did Sony drop support for on the PS4, though the PS3 played them?
Audio CDs
Audio CDs will not play on a PS4, even though the PS1, PS2 and PS3 all handled them. The console does play films on Blu-ray and DVD.
Q 06Ghost of Tsushima's black-and-white mode, complete with film grain, honours which Japanese director?
Akira Kurosawa
Akira Kurosawa's estate gave the developers permission to use his name. The samurai films he directed, Seven Samurai and Yojimbo among them, were a major inspiration for the game.
Q 07The PS4 launched in North America in 2013 at $399, undercutting which rival console by $100?
Xbox One
Xbox One cost $499 at launch, and Sony pressed the advantage by promising no restrictions on reselling or trading PS4 discs.
Q 08Which crime game starring Michael, Franklin and Trevor became the best-selling game on PS4?
Grand Theft Auto V
Grand Theft Auto V outsold every other game on the console, even though it had first come out on PS3 a year earlier. The upgraded version added a first-person view of Los Santos.
Q 09Which battle royale game was first to get PS4 cross-play with rival consoles in 2018?
Fortnite
Fortnite players had found that an account used on PS4 was locked out of other consoles, and the backlash helped change Sony's mind. Cross-play arrived in September 2018.
Q 10Battlefield 1, a 2016 hit on PS4, broke with the series by depicting which conflict?
World War I
World War I put bolt-action rifles, flamethrowers and poison gas in players' hands, in battles inspired by real historical events.
Q 11Which treasure hunter, voiced by Nolan North, takes a final bow in the PS4 best seller Uncharted 4?
Nathan Drake
Nathan Drake is coaxed out of retirement by a brother he believed dead, and the pair chase the lost treasure of the pirate Henry Avery. The studio set out to make it the last game in the series.
Q 12Which young hunter is the hero of Horizon Zero Dawn, a world ruled by animal-like machines?
Aloy
Aloy scans the machines with an earpiece called a Focus, and she can hack some of them with her spear to ride as mounts. The game sold more than 19 million copies on PS4.
Q 13Which outlaw of the Van der Linde gang do players control for most of Red Dead Redemption 2?
Arthur Morgan
Q 21Which PS4 game by Bend Studio follows biker Deacon St. John through an Oregon overrun by Freakers?
Days Gone
Days Gone lets its zombie-like Freakers gather into a single huge horde that chases Deacon down. Central Oregon was chosen for its varied terrain, and the game sold over seven million copies on PS4.
Q 22Which PS4 exclusive by FromSoftware sends a Hunter through Yharnam, a Gothic city gripped by plague?
Bloodborne
Bloodborne took its mood from the horror of Lovecraft and Bram Stoker, and its streets from real architecture in Romania and the Czech Republic.
Q 23Which 2016 PS4 game reimagined a 2002 platformer to tie in with a film of the same name?
Ratchet & Clank
Arthur Morgan carries the story through 1899, and only in the epilogue does control pass to John Marston, the hero of the first Red Dead Redemption.
Q 14In the PS4 hit Detroit: Become Human, Kara, Connor and Markus are all what kind of being?
Androids
Androids in the game begin to gain consciousness, and each lead reacts differently. Kara flees her owner, Markus fights to free others, and Connor is the police model sent to hunt them.
Q 15Which game, born from Blizzard's cancelled Titan, won Game of the Year at The Game Awards 2016?
Overwatch
Overwatch beat Doom, Inside, Titanfall 2 and Uncharted 4 to the top prize, and Blizzard was named Best Studio on the same night.
Q 16Which actor plays the courier Sam Porter Bridges in Hideo Kojima's PS4 game Death Stranding?
Norman Reedus
Norman Reedus was the basis for the hero from the start. He was joined in the cast by Mads Mikkelsen and Léa Seydoux, with film director Guillermo del Toro lending his likeness.
Q 17The Last of Us Part II sends Ellie from Jackson, Wyoming to hunt for Abby in which city?
Seattle
Seattle was studied on location by the game's artists, who analysed its architecture and vegetation and captured textures for the ruined city. Abby's militia is based there.
Q 18Which game created by Markus Persson reached PS4 in 2014 in an edition built by 4J Studios?
Minecraft
Minecraft worlds on PS4 could be 36 times larger than they were on PS3. The game had been planned for the console's launch but slipped to September 2014.
Q 19The Witcher 3, a PS4 hit based on Andrzej Sapkowski's novels, was made by a studio in which country?
Poland
Poland is home to the studio, which is based in Warsaw and started out translating other companies' games into Polish.
Q 20Which studio made both Uncharted 4 and The Last of Us Remastered, two of the PS4's biggest sellers?
Naughty Dog
Naughty Dog saw both games pass 18 million copies on PS4. Its 2020 sequel to the second of them became the console's fastest-selling exclusive, with four million sold in a weekend.
Ratchet & Clank was held back from 2015 so that it could launch alongside the film, and it drew far better reviews than the film did. It sold about seven million copies on PS4.
Q 24Which PS4 game, announced for PS3 in 2009, pairs a boy with a giant creature called Trico?
The Last Guardian
The Last Guardian was meant to arrive in 2011, but delays and hardware trouble pushed it onto PS4, and many people doubted it would ever be released.
Q 25Which 2016 space game by Hello Games generates a universe of more than 18 quintillion planets?
No Man's Sky
No Man's Sky builds every planet by procedural generation, so each world has an ecosystem of plants and animals that no designer placed by hand.
Q 26Which 2016 Call of Duty game moved the fighting into space and drew a flood of YouTube dislikes?
Infinite Warfare
Infinite Warfare's reveal trailer became the second-most disliked video on YouTube at the time, a backlash commentators put down to fans tired of futuristic settings.
Q 27Which PS4 racing game hosted online championships certified by the FIA, motorsport's governing body?
Gran Turismo Sport
Gran Turismo Sport was also the first game in its series to include Porsche cars, which became possible once a rival publisher's exclusive licence had expired.
Q 28Which PS4 game from the console's first months gives Delsin Rowe powers drawn from smoke and neon?
Infamous Second Son
Infamous Second Son lets players push its hero towards good or evil through the choices they make. It arrived in March 2014, four months after the console itself.
Q 29Which actor plays Josh in the PS4 horror game Until Dawn, alongside Hayden Panettiere?
Rami Malek
Rami Malek gave both his voice and a motion-capture performance, in a game whose butterfly effect system lets any of its eight leads die.
Q 30Which hero of LittleBigPlanet 3 is joined on PS4 by new friends OddSock, Toggle and Swoop?
Sackboy
Sackboy can be outrun by OddSock, a dog-like friend who is also able to wall-jump. Toggle switches between a large, heavy form and a small, light one.