Shin Megami Tensei
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50 free Shin Megami Tensei trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Shin Megami Tensei has been asking players to bargain with demons for decades. Its monsters are borrowed from the myths, scriptures and folklore of the whole world, then redrawn in a style that fans recognise at a glance, and every one of them comes with a story. This quiz covers the numbered games and their heroes, a full run of Strange Journey questions, the famous spin-offs, and the people and companies behind the series. Many questions ask you to name a demon from its role in a game or from the legend it comes from. It is written for anyone who has recruited a first demon and for veterans who have seen every ending. Each answer comes with a short explanation, so you will leave knowing more about the series than when you started.
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Q 01Which demon, one of three brothers in a Halloween-themed Megami Tensei spin-off, is developer Atlus's corporate mascot?
Jack Frost
Jack Frost fights by throwing snowballs in that spin-off. The snowman-like demon also turns up as a hidden character in SBK: Snowboard Kids.
Q 02Strange Journey swapped Shin Megami Tensei's usual Tokyo for which continent, partly to appeal to overseas players?
Antarctica
Antarctica let the developers field an international cast. An earlier plan to set the game in New York City was vetoed for offering too little variety.
Q 03The Maniax edition of Shin Megami Tensei III: Nocturne added demon hunter Dante from which Capcom action series?
Devil May Cry
Devil May Cry's hero was approved because his job as a demon hunter fit the setting. A later edition swapped him for Raidou Kuzunoha of the Devil Summoner games.
Q 04The red-eyed demon Mothman in Shin Megami Tensei comes from 1960s monster sightings in which American state?
West Virginia
West Virginia witnesses around Point Pleasant reported the creature from November 1966 to December 1967. Skeptics blame misidentified owls and cranes.
Q 05Which Megami Tensei spin-off about Japanese high schoolers became the franchise's largest and most popular subseries?
Persona
Persona began in 1996 and trades the main games' battles between gods for interpersonal relationships and the psychology of a group of young people.
Q 06Which 1982 John Carpenter horror film inspired the crew's character drama in Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey?
The Thing
The Thing shaped how the stranded crew interact, and the borrowing did not stop there: some of the game's equipment was inspired by James Cameron's Aliens.
Q 07Which recurring Shin Megami Tensei demon is named for the tempter who tried to stop the Buddha reaching enlightenment?
Mara
Mara is said in Buddhist legend to have sent an army and visions of beautiful maidens, often called his daughters, to distract the meditating prince.
Q 08Designer Masayuki Doi worked elements of which film series into the main characters' designs in Shin Megami Tensei IV?
Star Wars
Star Wars touches were blended with Japanese and Western fashions by Doi, who had made his name on the Trauma Center surgery games.
Q 09Which hit series inspired Devil Children, the child-friendly Megami Tensei spin-off sold abroad as DemiKids?
Pokémon
Pokémon's popularity prompted the kid-friendly series, which is even sold in paired versions. Megami Tensei itself had let players recruit monsters since 1987.
Q 10Artist Kazuma Kaneko drew on world mythology and which Japanese movie monster when designing Megami Tensei demons?
Godzilla
Godzilla and other pop-culture monsters fed into Kaneko's designs, though he also looks up each subject's mythological background before he draws it.
Q 11In the first Shin Megami Tensei, the hero's pet dog Pascal can be fused into which mythical hound?
Cerberus
Cerberus has been a series regular since the 1987 original, and Atlus later built a 3D test demo of the demon to try out the PlayStation 2 hardware.
Q 12In Shin Megami Tensei IV, the book-spreading Black Samurai turns out to be which demon, also known as Yuriko?
Lilith
Lilith used the same Yuriko alias in the original 1992 game, where she hoped to found a new age with the hero as its Adam and herself as its Eve.
Q 13Which demon, eager to leave a hospital for Yoyogi Park, is the Demi-fiend's first recruit in SMT III: Nocturne?
Pixie
Pixie tries to part ways at the park but stays if asked. In the Maniax edition, a player who keeps her to the end can see her become a level 80 powerhouse.
Q 21Which international body sends the task force to investigate the spreading void in Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey?
United Nations
United Nations planners send four vehicles of soldiers and scientists, but only one survives the entry, leaving its crew stranded inside.
Q 22What name is given to the expanding void that threatens Earth in Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey?
Schwarzwelt
Schwarzwelt is German for Black World, and the spaces inside it represent humanity's many vices as a critique of them.
Q 23Which vehicle in Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey was modelled on the one in the 1977 film Damnation Alley?
Red Sprite
Red Sprite is an amphibious craft and the hero's base. Its three sister vehicles, Blue Jet and Gigantic among them, are destroyed on the way in.
Q 14Which Fiend blocks the Demi-fiend's road to Ikebukuro in the Great Underpass of Ginza in SMT III: Nocturne?
Matador
Matador appears as a skeleton in a bullfighter's costume and talks of fighting with style for an audience, even in an empty wasteland.
Q 15Which girl demon, revived by doting uncles Belial and Nebiros, haunts Roppongi in the first Shin Megami Tensei?
Alice
Alice takes her look from the heroine of Lewis Carroll's Wonderland books. Her two guardians killed Roppongi's citizens and bound their spirits there to keep her company.
Q 16In Shin Megami Tensei IV, which deified rebel samurai lends the power that forms the rock dome sealing Tokyo?
Masakado
Masakado was a real Heian-period rebel, and the shrine to his severed head still occupies some of the most expensive land in Tokyo's financial district.
Q 17On the Law route of Shin Megami Tensei IV, the samurai Jonathan merges with the archangels to become which being?
Merkabah
Merkabah is named for God's chariot. Its Chaos counterpart is born the same way, when fellow samurai Walter merges with the lord of the demons.
Q 18In Shin Megami Tensei IV: Apocalypse, which Irish deity revives the slain hunter Nanashi to serve as his godslayer?
Dagda
Dagda later reveals his real aim: hijacking the Cosmic Egg to make a universe of fully independent humans, a plan his own mother Danu opposes.
Q 19In the novel that inspired Megami Tensei, which god does bullied student Akemi Nakajima summon by computer for revenge?
Loki
Loki breaks free of Akemi's control when the boy refuses to offer classmate Yumiko as a sacrifice, and he returns as a boss in the 1987 game.
Q 20Which Hindu deity, freed from prison by the hunter Nanashi, leads the Divine Powers alliance in SMT IV: Apocalypse?
Krishna
Krishna claims to be saving humanity but plans to destroy the universe and hatch a new one from a giant Cosmic Egg.
Q 24In Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey, which shipboard AI takes command after Commander Gore is killed?
Arthur
Arthur gradually develops a personality as he learns, and on two of the story routes he destroys that new self to save the hero.
Q 25Which primordial mother goddess creates the world-reshaping Cosmic Eggs in Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey?
Mem Aleph
Mem Aleph unleashed the void after seeing humans abuse Earth's environment and, in doing so, corrupt her own dimension.
Q 26Which composer gave Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey its film-like score of synthesised choir music?
Shoji Meguro
Shoji Meguro set aside his usual contemporary sounds after the director asked him to score the game as if it were a motion picture.
Q 27Which Greek goddess rescues the wounded hero in Strange Journey Redux and sends him into the Womb of Grief for Fruit?
Demeter
Demeter steps in after Alex, a woman who has travelled back in time to assassinate the hero, nearly kills him.
Q 28Which demon lord, named in the European title of SMT III: Nocturne, watches and tests the Demi-fiend in many forms?
Lucifer
Lucifer's Call was the game's subtitle in PAL regions, and its designers made him a gentlemanly observer who sets tests, not a standard villain.
Q 29Which Japanese gaming giant bought Index Corporation, the bankrupt parent of Atlus, in 2013?
Sega
Sega bought the bankrupt owner and renamed its game division Atlus in 2014, keeping alive the brand that Megami Tensei had built.
Q 30Atlus developed the first Megami Tensei game in 1987, but which arcade giant published it?
Namco
Namco published the first two games, after which Atlus released nearly every later entry itself, starting with Shin Megami Tensei.