Horror Game Trivia
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50 free Horror Game trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
This horror game trivia quiz covers survival horror and its neighbours from the beginning: Capcom's 1989 Sweet Home and Alone in the Dark, the first Resident Evil and Silent Hill, Fatal Frame and Clock Tower, then Dead Space, Amnesia, Outlast, Alan Wake, Until Dawn, Alien: Isolation, P.T., Soma and Bloodborne, and the streaming-era hits Five Nights at Freddy's, Phasmophobia, Dead by Daylight, Lethal Company, Poppy Playtime and Doki Doki Literature Club. It finishes with the recent revivals: Resident Evil 7 and Village, the Silent Hill 2 remake and Silent Hill f. Expect questions on mechanics (ink ribbons, sanity meters, strategic dismemberment, tinderboxes, camcorder batteries), settings, creators, the origins of the term 'survival horror', and the films and books the designers were copying. About a third of the questions are easy for anyone who has played a few of these, a third are medium, and the rest are for people who finished Amnesia without watching a Let's Play. Every answer has been checked against an encyclopaedic source and each question links to the page that confirms it.
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Q 01Which genre label did Capcom first use in 1996 to market the original Resident Evil?
Survival horror
Survival horror was Capcom's own label for Resident Evil, and it was later applied backwards to older games such as Sweet Home and Alone in the Dark.
Q 02Capcom's 1989 Famicom RPG Sweet Home, an ancestor of Resident Evil, was made alongside what?
A film of the same name
A film of the same name was directed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa; its trailer advertised the game too, and Kurosawa is credited as the game's supervisor.
Q 03Alone in the Dark (1992) is set in a haunted mansion in which US state?
Louisiana
Louisiana's Derceto mansion was meant to carry the Call of Cthulhu name, but licence holder Chaosium refused its blessing, so Lovecraft's monsters stayed in without the brand.
Q 04Which two S.T.A.R.S. members can you play as in the original Resident Evil?
Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine
Chris Redfield and Jill Valentine play differently: he must hunt for keys, while her lockpick opens those doors, earning her the nickname 'Master of Unlocking'.
Q 05In the original Resident Evil, which item is used up each time you save your game?
An ink ribbon
An ink ribbon is used up by every save at a typewriter, and because the supply is finite, each wasted save can come back to haunt you later.
Q 06What is Resident Evil called in its home country?
Biohazard
Biohazard is the original title at home, but Capcom's US office warned the name could not be trademarked in America, so a staff contest came up with Resident Evil.
Q 07Who directed the original Resident Evil and later founded Tango Gameworks to make The Evil Within?
Shinji Mikami
Shinji Mikami got the job in 1993 when his boss Tokuro Fujiwara asked for a horror game built on the systems of Sweet Home, the Famicom chiller Fujiwara had directed.
Q 08Resident Evil 4 (2005) sends Leon Kennedy to rescue the president's daughter from a cult where?
Spain
Spain is where Leon finds the president's daughter held in a remote village, and the game's over-the-shoulder aiming went on to shape a generation of action games such as Gears of War.
Q 09Resident Evil 7 (2017) broke with series tradition by adopting which viewpoint?
First-person
First-person view was producer Jun Takeuchi's idea for pulling the series back to horror after the action-heavy Resident Evil 6, with the whole game shrunk to one family's plantation.
Q 10Silent Hill, the town, is located in which US state?
Maine
Maine is the games' setting, but the 2006 film moved Silent Hill to West Virginia and modelled it on Centralia, the Pennsylvania town emptied by an underground coal fire.
Q 11In the first Silent Hill (1999), Harry Mason is searching the town for whom?
His missing adopted daughter
His missing adopted daughter Cheryl vanishes after a car crash outside town; the thick fog Harry searches through also helped hide the PlayStation's technical limits.
Q 12Silent Hill 2's James Sunderland comes to town after receiving a letter from whom?
His dead wife
His dead wife Mary's letter draws James back to the town where they once holidayed, yet the woman he finds by the lake is Maria, her uncanny double.
Q 13Which seemingly unkillable Silent Hill 2 monster wears a huge helmet and drags a giant knife?
Pyramid Head
Q 21What is the name of the amnesiac protagonist of Amnesia: The Dark Descent?
Daniel
Daniel wakes in a Prussian castle with no memory and finds a note in his own hand: he wiped his past on purpose and must now go down and kill the baron, Alexander.
Q 22In Outlast (2013), the only way to see in the dark of Mount Massive Asylum is through what?
A camcorder's night vision
A camcorder's night vision is the only way to see in the asylum's dark, but it drains batteries, so journalist Miles Upshur has to scavenge them constantly.
Q 23Who created Five Nights at Freddy's, largely single-handedly, in 2014?
Scott Cawthon
Pyramid Head never speaks and never shows a face: designer Masahiro Ito wanted a monster with a hidden face, and the Great Knife is so heavy he can only drag it behind him.
Q 14P.T. (2014) teased the cancelled Silent Hills, a collaboration between Hideo Kojima and which filmmaker?
Guillermo del Toro
Guillermo del Toro was to make Silent Hills with Kojima and actor Norman Reedus, but Konami scrapped it in 2015 and pulled the P.T. demo from the PlayStation Store.
Q 15Silent Hill f (2025) is set in the 1960s in a fictional town in which country?
Japan
Japan was chosen because producer Motoi Okamoto felt the series had grown too westernised, so the team set out to make '100% Japanese' horror in the fog-bound town of Ebisugaoka.
Q 16In Fatal Frame, what do the protagonists use to capture and pacify ghosts?
A camera
A camera, the Camera Obscura, hits harder the longer it stays trained on a ghost, so players must hold their nerve and keep the spirit in frame as it closes in.
Q 17In Clock Tower (1995), Jennifer Simpson is stalked through the Barrows mansion by a killer known as what?
Scissorman
Scissorman can't be fought with weapons, because Jennifer has none, so she must run, hide or spring a trap.
Q 18Dead Space (2008) built its combat around what 'founding principle'?
Strategic dismemberment
Strategic dismemberment turns the usual shooter habit upside down: instead of aiming for the head, players must cut off a Necromorph's limbs to kill it.
Q 19What is the profession of Dead Space's protagonist Isaac Clarke?
Engineer
Engineer Isaac Clarke is no soldier, which is why his weapons are mining tools such as the Plasma Cutter, turned on the monsters aboard the USG Ishimura.
Q 20Amnesia: The Dark Descent (2010) was made by Frictional Games, a studio from which country?
Sweden
Sweden is home to Frictional Games, founded in Helsingborg, whose Amnesia gives the player no weapons at all: the only answers to its monsters are to run or hide.
Scott Cawthon built Five Nights at Freddy's mostly alone after critics said the characters in his family game Chipper & Sons Lumber Co. looked like creepy animatronics.
Q 24In the first Five Nights at Freddy's, which limited resource must the night guard ration?
Electricity
Electricity is rationed each night: watching the monitors and shutting doors drains it, and once it runs out the doors and lights fail, leaving the guard defenceless.
Q 25Who plays Mike Schmidt in the 2023 Five Nights at Freddy's film?
Josh Hutcherson
Josh Hutcherson plays the night guard in a film that streamed on Peacock the day it reached cinemas yet still opened to $80 million, then Blumhouse's biggest debut.
Q 26Alan Wake (2010) is set in which fictional small town in Washington state?
Bright Falls
Bright Falls was built from life: Finnish studio Remedy sent a team through Oregon and Washington and came home with over 6,000 photos of small towns, diners and lakes.
Q 27In the PlayStation horror Until Dawn (2015), what mechanic makes players' choices reshape the story?
A butterfly effect
A butterfly effect system lets small choices ripple into later deaths, under three rules: anyone can survive, anyone can die, and whoever dies stays dead.
Q 28Alien: Isolation (2014) casts you as Amanda, which relative of the films' heroine Ellen Ripley?
Her daughter
Her daughter Amanda sets out 15 years after the 1979 film to learn why Ellen vanished, and the game copies that film's lo-fi look instead of the gung-ho sequel Aliens.
Q 29Which studio, best known for the Total War strategy series, made Alien: Isolation?
Creative Assembly
Creative Assembly was handed three terabytes of original production material by Fox to rebuild the 1979 film's world, from set designs to costume photos.
Q 30Dead by Daylight is an asymmetric multiplayer game with what player split?
One Killer versus four Survivors
One Killer versus four Survivors is lopsided by design: the hunted get a wider view of their surroundings, while the Killer's narrower view stays fixed on the prey.