60 free Undertale trivia questions with answers. Undertale is one of the most quoted, memed and replayed indie games ever made, and this quiz covers the whole story of it. You'll be tested on the characters you meet on the way through the Underground, the mechanics that made the battle system so different, and the three very different ways a playthrough can end. There are also questions about the soundtrack, the Kickstarter, the console ports and the parallel-universe follow-up Deltarune. The set is built for fans who have finished at least one route, but the early questions are easy enough for anyone who has watched a friend play. Difficulty ramps from basics like who rescues the fallen child to development details only dedicated fans will know, such as which real-world reading inspired the game's text system. Every question was checked against the Wikipedia articles for Undertale, Toby Fox, Megalovania and Deltarune, and each one shows the sentence that backs its answer after you play. Fifty questions, free, no signup.
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Q 01Who created Undertale, writing the script, composing the music and programming nearly all of it?
Toby Fox
Apart from artwork and character designs by a small group of guest artists, the whole game was a one-person project.
Q 02In what year was Undertale first released, for OS X and Windows?
2015
It launched on September 15, and the Linux port followed the next summer.
Q 03What is the name of the large, secluded region under the surface of the Earth where the game takes place?
The Underground
It is separated from the surface by a magical barrier, and the whole game is the journey back up.
Q 04Which motherly, goat-like monster rescues the fallen child at the start of the game?
Toriel
She teaches the child how to get through conflicts without killing, and wants to adopt them to keep them safe from the king.
Q 05Undertale's motherly goat monster Toriel was created as a parody of what kind of game character?
Tutorial characters
Fox also felt RPGs lacked strong mothers, so he wanted 'a mom that hopefully acts like a mom' who genuinely cares what the player does.
Q 06Who is the king of the monsters, whose castle contains the barrier to the surface?
Asgore
He was written as an intimidating figure at first, but Fox made him goofier, inspired by Fangamer founder Reid Young.
Q 07The two skeleton brothers who act as sentries in the game are named after what?
Typefaces
Their in-game dialogue is even displayed in their own fonts, Comic Sans and Papyrus.
Q 08The skeleton brothers act as sentries for which area?
Snowdin forest
They are two of the first named monsters the child meets after leaving the Ruins.
Q 09What position does Undyne hold?
Head of the royal guard
Fox found her hard to write; the one detail that never changed was that she was the first boss who genuinely wanted to kill the protagonist.
Q 10Who is the kingdom's royal scientist, creator of the robot TV host?
Alphys
She was originally depicted as a man; Fox grew to dislike that and redesigned her, adding eyelashes.
Q 11What kind of being is Mettaton?
A robotic television host
He was built by the royal scientist, and his glitzy shows are a running gag through Hotland.
Q 12The flower who greets the child at the start lies about which stat to try to kill them?
LOVE
He frames it as friendship points, which turns out to be a very dark joke later in the game.
Q 13According to the judgment scene late in the game, LOVE is actually an acronym for what?
Level of Violence
The reveal recasts the whole levelling system as a measure of how much harm the player has done.
Q 21What is revealed to be the human child's true name at the end of the best ending?
Frisk
The name is spoken by the goat prince after he reverts to child form and destroys the barrier.
Q 22What is the name of the first fallen human, who befriended the royal family's son long before the game begins?
Chara
In the worst ending this character appears at the very end and erases the world.
Q 23What is the name of the king and queen's son, who befriended the first fallen human?
Asriel
He was killed by humans on the surface, which is what pushed his father to declare war.
Humans fall into the monsters' realm through a gap in the barrier at which mountain?
Q 14In the same judgment scene, EXP is revealed to stand for what?
Execution points
The player is judged on the totals they have accumulated across the whole run.
Q 15Which battle menu option lets you check an enemy's stats and take non-violent actions?
ACT
Using the right actions, or attacking until an enemy is weak but alive, opens the way to sparing them.
Q 16During battles the player controls a small heart. What does it represent?
Their soul
Boss battles change how the heart moves, and coloured obstacles are added as the game goes on.
Q 17Dodging enemy attacks in battle plays like a miniature version of which game genre?
Bullet hell shooter
Fox tested it on friends with no shooter experience and was satisfied when they could all finish the game.
Q 18Which Japanese shoot-'em-up series was a direct inspiration for the game's battle system?
Touhou Project
Fox first downloaded its demos in middle school, and later credited it alongside the Mario & Luigi games.
Q 19Fans call the ending in which every single fightable monster is killed by what name?
Genocide
It is also called the 'No Mercy' route, and much of the world empties out as characters flee.
Q 20The best ending, unlocked by reloading after a kill-free neutral run, is known as what?
True Pacifist
Flowey ambushes the reunion of the child's friends and absorbs everyone's souls before the finale.
Mount Ebott
It is the only opening in the barrier that seals the monsters away from the surface.
Q 25How many human souls has the king collected when the game begins?
Six
He needs just one more to break the barrier, which is why the child is in danger.
Q 26What was the funding goal of the game's 2013 Kickstarter campaign?
$5,000
It ran for exactly one month in the summer of 2013 and blew far past the target.
Q 27Roughly how much did the Kickstarter campaign end up raising?
$51,100
Just under 2,400 backers chipped in, roughly ten times what Fox had asked for.
Q 28How many months did the game's development take?
32
It was originally meant to be a two-hour game released in mid-2014.
Q 29Which game creation tool was Undertale built with?
GameMaker: Studio
That choice later mattered: Fox said Nintendo 3DS and Wii U ports were impossible because the tool didn't support them.
Q 30Before Undertale, Fox was best known for composing music for which webcomic?
Homestuck
He started writing music for it in 2010, while still in high school.