The Best Gaming Franchise Quizzes, Ranked by Difficulty
Not all gaming trivia is created equal. Some franchises hand you their lore on a silver platter with cutscenes and codex entries. Others bury it inside a sword's flavor text and dare you to piece it together. So we did the obvious thing: took five of the best franchise quizzes on Quizzy and ranked them from "you can pass this on vibes" to "you will be humbled." Strap in.
A quick note on what "difficulty" means here. We're not ranking by how hard the games are to play — Elden Ring would obviously win that in a landslide. We're ranking by how hard it is to know the franchise well enough to answer questions about it. Those are very different things. A game can be punishingly difficult to beat while having a story you could summarize in two sentences. The franchises that climb this list are the ones where the story is sprawling, fragmented, or deliberately hidden — where being a casual fan simply isn't enough.
Tier 1: The Friendly On-Ramp
Halo — Beginner
We're starting easy on purpose. The Halo Franchise quiz is the most beginner-friendly of the bunch because Halo's story is, by sci-fi standards, refreshingly legible. Master Chief, Cortana, the Covenant, the Flood, the rings. The big beats are cultural common knowledge — even people who never touched an Xbox know what "Finish the fight" means. Expect to clear 60% on recognition alone, then sweat a little on the Forerunner stuff.
God of War — Easy-to-Moderate
The God of War quiz sits just above Halo. The early Greek-era games were straightforward rage-fueled mythology, and the 2018 Norse reboot is one of the most-discussed games of the modern era. If you know Kratos, the Leviathan Axe, and the famous "Boy," you're already halfway there. The difficulty creeps up when it asks you to untangle the Norse pantheon and the timeline jumps between sagas.
Tier 2: The Real Test
Final Fantasy — Moderate-to-Hard
Here's where it gets spicy. The Final Fantasy quiz is hard not because any single game is obscure, but because there are so many of them, and they share almost nothing except chocobos, crystals, and a guy named Cid. Fifteen-plus mainline entries, each with its own world, cast, and combat system. Knowing FF7 cold won't save you when the question is about FF Tactics or the MMO storylines. Breadth is the killer here.
The recurring Final Fantasy joke is that every game has a Cid and a chocobo, but no two Cids are the same person. The quiz absolutely exploits this.
Resident Evil — Hard
The Resident Evil quiz earns its spot near the top through sheer narrative chaos. The series has spanned mansions, villages, bioterrorism, and a megacorporation that simply will not die, all stitched together by a timeline that's been retconned more than once. Tracking which virus did what, who betrayed whom, and which Wesker you're even talking about is a genuine challenge. Survival horror, meet trivia horror.
Tier 3: The Final Boss
Elden Ring — Brutal
And the hardest? It was never going to be anything else. The Elden Ring quiz is the boss fight of this list. FromSoftware tells its story sideways — through item descriptions, environmental clues, and NPCs who speak in riddles and then die. There's no recap screen. Knowing the Lands Between, the Demigods, the Great Runes, and which questline locks you out of which ending is the kind of knowledge you only get from obsessive play (or obsessive lore videos). If you ace this one, you have earned your maidenless bragging rights.
The Full Ranking
- Halo — Beginner. Start here.
- God of War — Easy-to-Moderate. A satisfying warm-up.
- Final Fantasy — Moderate-to-Hard. Breadth over depth.
- Resident Evil — Hard. The timeline is the enemy.
- Elden Ring — Brutal. Bring a guide and your dignity.
Run the Gauntlet
The fun way to play this is in order, easiest to hardest, and watch your scores drop off a cliff somewhere around Final Fantasy. If you make it through all five with respectable numbers, you're not just a gamer — you're a lore historian.
One last bit of strategy. If you're playing to win bragging rights, don't go in cold on the hard ones. The Elden Ring quiz and the Resident Evil quiz both reward people who've spent time with the deeper material — the wikis, the lore breakdowns, the "ending explained" videos that exist precisely because the games refuse to explain themselves. The easier entries like Halo and God of War are the ones you can warm up on, build some confidence, and then march into the harder fights. Treat the whole thing like a difficulty curve and it actually feels like a campaign.
And if your scores surprise you in either direction, that's the point. Plenty of people who'd swear they're "huge Final Fantasy fans" discover they only really know one or two entries. Plenty of others who never considered themselves serious gamers clean up because they absorbed decades of franchise lore through cultural osmosis. The quizzes are honest in a way our self-image usually isn't.
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Pick Your Difficulty
Start gentle or jump straight into the deep end. Either way, prove you've actually played.