Q 01/05

After NieR: Automata's last ending, what can players sacrifice to help strangers beat the credits?

A) Their rarest weapon

B) Their trophies

C) Their save data

D) Their in-game money

Answer · why

C) Their save data

Their save data is wiped if they accept, and in return a message of encouragement reaches another player struggling through the same sequence.

Q 02/05

Critics read the designation of NieR: Automata heroine 2B as a nod to which Shakespeare tragedy?

A) Hamlet

B) Macbeth

C) Othello

D) King Lear

Answer · why

A) Hamlet

Hamlet gives the name its echo of the prince's famous soliloquy, and one reviewer called it a sign of the game's obsession with existentialist philoso...

Q 03/05

NieR: Automata was first pitched as NieR: Android until which tech giant's trademark got in the way?

A) Apple

B) Google

C) Samsung

D) Microsoft

Answer · why

B) Google

Google owns the Android operating system name, so Square Enix turned down the director's first-choice title to avoid a possible trademark conflict.

Q 04/05

Which drinks brand's vending machines linking India and Pakistan inspired NieR: Automata's finale?

A) Dr Pepper

B) Mountain Dew

C) Red Bull

D) Coca-Cola

Answer · why

D) Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola linked machines in the two countries by livestream to nudge people past a political rivalry, and the director reworked the idea into encoura...

Q 05/05

Where are the androids of NieR: Automata told that the last surviving humans have taken refuge?

A) On the Moon

B) On planet Mars

C) Deep underground

D) Under the ocean

Answer · why

A) On the Moon

On the Moon is where the Council of Humanity supposedly sits, the body in whose name the YoRHa androids fight to reclaim Earth from the Machines.