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80 free Rocket League trivia questions with answers — technology quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
74 free Rocket League trivia questions with answers. Rocket League started life as a 2008 PlayStation 3 game with a name so long its own designer later called it the worst in history. Seven years and a PS Plus giveaway later, it became one of the most played games in the world. This quiz covers the whole run: the studio's origins as an Unreal Tournament modder, the sub-$2 million budget, the modes from Snow Day to Knockout, the ranks up to Supersonic Legend, the licensed cars from the DeLorean to KITT, the free-to-play switch, the Epic acquisition, Sideswipe and Rocket Racing, and the RLCS from a $55,000 first prize pool to Turbopolsa, Vatira and the 2025 world champions. The early questions suit anyone who has ever whiffed an aerial. The later ones expect you to know which car got its own hitbox, which Psyonix prototype the soccer ball first landed in, and what the founder bought with the proceeds of the sale. Every answer has been checked against Wikipedia and Psyonix's official Rocket League site, and each question shows its source once you have answered.
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Q 01In what year was Rocket League first released?
2015
It launched on 7 July 2015 for PS4 and Windows, in the quiet middle of the year rather than the crowded holiday season.
Q 02Rocket League is essentially which real-world sport, played with rocket-powered cars?
Soccer
The ball is far bigger than the cars, and the whole thing plays like indoor football crossed with a demolition derby.
Q 03Rocket League's 2008 predecessor was called Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered what?
Battle-Cars
The studio picked the absurdly long name on purpose, hoping it would get noticed. It mostly got mocked.
Q 04In which year did Rocket League switch to free-to-play on all platforms?
2020
The switch happened on 23 September 2020, and the Windows version moved from Steam to the Epic Games Store at the same time.
Q 05Which company bought Rocket League's developer in May 2019?
Epic Games
The purchase price was never disclosed. Steam users review-bombed the game so hard that Valve's off-topic review filter kicked in.
Q 06How long is a standard Rocket League match before any overtime?
5 minutes
If the score is level when the clock hits zero, the match goes to sudden-death overtime and the next goal wins.
Q 07In the Snow Day mode, the ball is swapped for what?
A hockey puck
Snow Day debuted as a 2015 holiday event and proved so popular it was made permanent in February 2016.
Q 08The Hoops mode is based on which sport?
Basketball
Hoops arrived on 25 April 2016, and Psyonix partnered with the NBA to release flags for all 30 teams alongside it.
Q 09Which mode adds power-ups such as the ability to freeze the ball in place?
Rumble
It was added on 8 September 2016, the same day the macOS and Linux versions launched.
Q 10Dropshot is played on a goalless floor made of tiles of what shape?
Hexagonal
The ball becomes more electrified the longer it stays airborne, and breaks more tiles when it finally lands. Break through and the ball drops for a goal.
Q 11Which film's famous car came to Rocket League as DLC on 21 October 2015?
Back to the Future
The date was chosen deliberately: 21 October 2015 is the day Marty McFly travels to in the second film.
Q 12The Batmobile added in March 2016 was the version from which film?
Batman v Superman
The tie-in launched the same month the film hit cinemas. Later Batman packs added the 1989 and Tumbler versions too.
Q 13The Xbox One version launched with exclusive cars themed on which two franchises?
Gears of War and Halo
The Armadillo from Gears of War and the Warthog-inspired HogSticker from Halo have never left the platform.
Q 21Design director Corey Davis estimated the launch-week PS Plus giveaway produced how many downloads?
6 million
Davis called putting the game on PS Plus the best decision the studio ever made, even though it melted their servers in the first week.
Q 22The day after going free-to-play, peak concurrent players passed what mark?
1 million
For comparison, the original 2015 launch peaked at around 120,000 concurrent players in its first days.
Q 23When Rocket League dropped macOS and Linux support in 2020, those players were under what share of the base?
0.3%
Psyonix offered full refunds to every Mac and Linux owner regardless of how long they had owned the game.
Q 14The Nintendo Switch version received exclusive cars inspired by which two series?
Super Mario and Metroid
Switch players got Mario- and Luigi-themed cars plus a Samus-inspired design when the port arrived on 14 November 2017.
Q 15At launch, the PS4 version included Sweet Tooth's car from which PlayStation series?
Twisted Metal
Sweet Tooth's ice-cream truck was the very first licensed vehicle in the game, before any movie cars showed up.
Q 16What was the name of the game's first DLC pack, released in August 2015?
Supersonic Fury
It added two new cars, the Dominus and Takumi, alongside the Utopia Coliseum arena.
Q 17The Wasteland arena, the first non-standard map, was inspired by which film series?
Mad Max
It launched free in December 2015 with a different size and shape from every other arena, which competitive players complained about for years.
Q 18Which EDM label began supplying music to the game with the 2017 anniversary update?
Monstercat
The partnership spawned a whole album series called Rocket League x Monstercat, starting with an 18-track first volume.
Q 19Roughly how much did Rocket League cost to develop over its two-year build?
Under $2 million
It repaid that budget many times over within weeks, and had earned more than $110 million within a year of release.
Q 20Which technology underpins Rocket League?
Unreal Engine 3
Because the Switch has no native support for that engine, the port had to be scaled down to 720p.
Q 24Why, in part, was the short name Rocket League chosen for the sequel?
So the title would fit fully in digital storefronts
Founder Dave Hagewood also felt it sounded more mature and was easier to remember than the mouthful it replaced.
Q 25In 2016, Corey Davis described the full title of the 2008 predecessor as what?
The worst game name of all time
The studio had chosen the long name hoping it would attract attention. Davis was not a fan by 2016.
Q 26The car-ball idea came from a ball dropped into a level of which unreleased Psyonix game?
Track Addict
Track Addict was a vehicle platformer with time trials, inspired by Tony Hawk's and SSX. The team liked the ball so much they rebuilt the game around it.
Q 27Before the ball changed everything, Psyonix had agreed to release its vehicle platformer on whose console?
Microsoft
Once the design pivoted, the two companies parted ways and the finished game came out on PlayStation 3 instead.
Q 28Who founded Psyonix in 2000?
Dave Hagewood
Hagewood started programming at eight and dropped out of college in 1995 to run a web-hosting company before games.
Q 29Psyonix's VehicleMOD for Unreal Tournament 2003 became which official mode in Unreal Tournament 2004?
Onslaught
The deal came after a three-week crunch to impress Epic, and prompted the studio to move from Florida to North Carolina.
Q 30To which city did Psyonix relocate its headquarters in December 2009?
San Diego
The studio began in Satellite Beach, Florida, moved to Raleigh in 2003 and relocated to San Diego in December 2009.