Trivia Royale pits 1,000 people against each other.
Trivia Royale pits 1,000 people against each other.
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Trivia Royale game tops Apple’s App Store with 2 million downloads

Teatime has a big hit on its hands with Trivia Royale, a mobile game in which 1,000 players compete against each other in a last-person standing trivia face-off. Gamers have downloaded the free-to-play title more than 2 million times since June 17, and it has been No. 1 in the iOS App Store for a few days — even ahead of free app leader TikTok.

That success has generated both stress and relief for Thor Fridriksson, the CEO of the Icelandic company. The stress comes from making sure the game stays available as it scales upward. The relief is that this success validates Fridriksson’s efforts, which started with the founding of Teatime in 2017.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.