About STARKO
What is STARKO?
STARKO is a trivia game where your knowledge unlocks the world. Answer questions across themes like Sports, Music, History, and Science to earn clues, discover countries, and build civilizations. With 80 countries spread across 6 continents, every correct answer brings you closer to completing the world map.
Our Mission
Knowledge cannot be bought. That is the principle behind STARKO. We believe learning should be engaging, accessible, and rewarding. STARKO turns curiosity into adventure — every question is a step toward discovery, every discovery is a step toward mastery.
How It Works
Choose a theme and answer trivia questions. Correct answers earn stars and clues. Accumulate enough clues (50 to 200, depending on the next country's difficulty) to unlock an Ancient Map, which automatically discovers a new country on your world map. Progress through 6 explorer ranks — from Novice to Legend — as you accumulate stars. Compete with friends, climb the leaderboards, and become the World Master.
How Our Questions Are Made
Every question in STARKO clears a multi-stage editorial pipeline before a player ever sees it. Questions are drafted from a curated database of real figures, landmarks, historical events, artworks and inventions — each entry linked to its reference source. Drafts then pass automated validation (structure, difficulty calibration, duplicate detection), an independent AI review that judges factual accuracy and clarity, and a cross-language check that guarantees the Portuguese and English versions ask exactly the same thing, with nothing lost in translation. Only questions that clear every gate are promoted into the live game; the rest are rejected or rewritten. The result is a bank of thousands of live questions that we keep pruning and growing.
Our Content Standards
Accuracy beats cleverness. There are no trick questions in STARKO, and every question has exactly one defensibly correct answer. Difficulty is balanced by design — roughly 40% easy, 35% medium and 25% hard in each session — so the game stays motivating rather than punishing, and harder questions always pay more stars and clues. Questions flagged by our quality monitoring or by player feedback are re-reviewed and, when a problem is confirmed, retired from circulation. Spotted a mistake we missed? Write to support@starko.app: we check every report against our sources and correct what needs correcting.
Who's Behind STARKO
STARKO is built in Porto, Portugal, by a small independent team — no publisher and no investor roadmap, just people who love trivia. The project started with a simple frustration: trivia games either recycle the same tired questions or bury the fun under paywalls and forced interruptions. We wanted a game we would happily play ourselves — bilingual from day one (European Portuguese and English), respectful of your time, and honest about what is free and what is optional. Everything, from the question pipeline to the interactive world map, is developed in-house, and progression can never be bought — only played for.
Contact
Have questions, feedback, or partnership inquiries? Reach us at hello@starko.app — or use the dedicated channels on our contact page for support and privacy requests.