Askutron Quiz Show Reviews

Great family fun

DONT EVEN BOTHER WITH THIS GAME:The devs have abonded it. spend your money elsewhere.

This game no longer works, QR Code & web-link used to join games on your phone is no longer functioning

Played a second round and already had multiple repeat questions. I did not expect this to happen considering the games were only 5 minutes each.

VERY early access. Has a lot of promise though. Needs to streamline the joining process as it took a bit of faff and the environment where this game is going to be played messing around with firewalls and QR codes etc takes away the vibe of a party somewhat. Repeat questions - some are very difficult questions, some are extremely easy. Hope there's some sort of balancing and "grading" of question difficulty based on right answers. Played it over new years and the winners were the ones who got lucky with their guesses instead of "knowing" something - everyone got the easy questions right.

I think this is a great game. And I've tried a lot of online trivia/quiz games. I think it's weakness is the questions. You need better questions and some are not that good. I would love to contribute questions. I think I could really help.

As many reviews have already stated, this game is not fully working and is longer being supported, so YMMV. Personally, I wanted it to create custom quizzes and also play using original Buzz! controllers. However, and quite unexpectedly, the problems I had were not specifically related with my particular use case. [b] I was able to create custom quizzes and use the Buzz! controllers without much of an issue.[/b] [b] What didn't work was actually loading the quizzes [/b] (some of the game types would not load because of insufficient questions or unknown errors) [b] and [/b], undoubtedly the most unexpected, [b]loading the answers to the questions[/b] (I would start a quiz, the question, host and participants would show up but not the answers, meaning the game would not go on). At first I tried with my custom quiz, but also tried with the standard quizzes and got the exact same results. Also, I tried it on multiple devices (a gaming PC with W10 @ 1440p) and a Steam Deck (on both SteamOS and W10 @ 800p) and noticed the game would take significantly longer on my gaming rig (loading the game and each quiz). On SteamOS, in gaming mode, the controllers were not registered so I primarily tested on W10 (on both my PC and SD).

Given the early state of this game, this is really entertaining. I played this with a few friends on one installation using the accompanying Android quiz app. Using the online lobby to find players takes a bit getting used to - just invite using your Steam app if you want to play with Steam friends. Otherwise, you're randomly joining with other players. There are many quizzes and several modes to try. You can download additional quizzes from the workshop and mix them in, voting questions you (dis)like to rank them for other players. I've once had a few issues with the multiplayer mode but one of the developers reached out and resolved the issue. I'd recommend this to anyone that likes quizzing with friends since you can try it offline with friends on one machine as well as through the online lobby. I expect things to break here and there when new features are pushed, but developers are responsive and friendly to resolve this. [b]Pros[/b] [*] Let you friends join on the same screen (e.g., TV) using their smartphones. Tested this with two other friends and Android devices, however the game claims to support iPhones as well [*] Great number of available quizzes in a variety of topics (even for language learning) [*] Multiple controller support (however, see my point below for steam controller support) [*] Developers are very responsive and friendly upon feedback [b]Cons[/b] [list] [*] Multiplayer mode is not intuitive on the first try. Go public and simply invite users to get started. [*] Steam controller doesn't work out of the box, wasn't clear to me what controllers the buttons are for (they are for Xbox & PS4 controllers). You need your own custom mapping at the time of this writing. [/list]

Gotta be honest, it´s a pretty nice Quiz-Game ! Different Game-Modes...A lot of diversified questions... Computerized Voice-Over (both english and german) ...wich is pretty good! ( Even says the Player Names u type in :D ) ...works with xbox-controller and keyboard at the same time...Keeps stats to look into ! AAAnd you can create ur own Quiz in the Editor ...or download one of the many great ones made in the Workshop ! The Developer-Team did a nice job on that one !

This game has potential but is currently let down by some serious flaws. Some good aspects - it's playable, friends can join in easily and it has fully voiced questions. The big drawback currently is that, as the developers acknowledge, neither of them are artists. The gameshow set visual isn't great and contributes little as a concept. The interruptions from the "host" between rounds are annoying, the avatars are few and uninteresting, and the user experience is affected by trying to force the gameshow format. Joining the game and answering the questions is easy, as it should be. Setting up the format of a session, whether rounds are timed and how points are decided, is more clumsy. The host doesn't need to voice everything - if a session consists of three rounds of "point hunt", do we need the host to announce "we are playing point hunt" before every round?