Quiz games can be incredibly cheap to produce if there is little fanfare, innovative or interesting gameplay mechanics, and they stick to pure questions and answers. There’s a selection of cheap quiz games buried in the PlayStation store, and in a recent sale, I picked up World Explorer Challenge as it teased itself to be a quiz about individual country culture. It isn’t wrong… but this is one of the most basic quiz games I’ve come across in a while.
There are two modes in this single-player quiz game. The first is question mode. Here, you must answer 30 questions that are meant to be presented in mini groups relating to specific countries. Pins are presented on a world map, and the game randomly selects a few countries for the player to choose the next few questions from. I like this idea, and the questions often relate to local food, landmarks, cultural references and important events. The game says the questions are split into easy, medium, and hard difficulty, but I had repeats across each difficulty very quickly. It also has that cheap habit of asking the same question in a slightly different way. The player is given a score after 30 answers, but there’s no leaderboard or anything to mark the occasion. The game just stops. The second mode highlights a country on the world map and presents a multiple-choice answer to which country it is.
That’s all you get. I applaud it for running smoothly, although it has a warning message that the game cannot be stopped once started, so don’t expect a save feature. It is just incredibly dull, with no personality, standout features, or even interesting questions to make it worth your time. Sometimes you can find a quiz game that is trying something new. This is not that game. A pound wasted.
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