Steins;Gate 0
Steins;Gate 0 is a Japanese visual novel. It is the fifth game in the Science Adventure series and the sequel to Steins;Gate. Like Steins;Gate, the game is described as a "hypothetical science ADV". The player…
Steins;Gate 0 is an adventure developed by 5pb., released 10 December 2015 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita and Xbox One.
What Steins;Gate 0 is
Steins;Gate 0 is an adventure game developed by 5pb. and released in 2015. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Xbox One, PlayStation 3 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Steins;Gate 0 takes place after a hypothetical bad ending to Steins;Gate, where main character Rintaro Okabe fails to save the life of Kurisu Makise after travelling back in time and gives up. Zero follows the consequence of Rintaro's choice and the effects it has in the world, as World War III draws closer with each passing day. Several months later, Rintaro attends a lecture by Alexis Leskinen and Maho Hiyajo, from Viktor Chondria University, the university at which Kurisu worked. There, he is presented the project Amadeus, an advanced artificial intelligence capable of replicating a person based on their memories, by using Kurisu's previously published thesis as a basis. Upon getting to…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are fantasy, historical and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 28 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Steins;Gate series
Steins;Gate 0 is the eighth of 14 entries we hold in the Steins;Gate series. It arrived 6 months after Steins;Gate: El Psy Kongroo Edition. The next entry was Steins;Gate: Limited Edition in 2016. Its critic score of 87 is 5 points above the series average of 82. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.
How it was received
Steins;Gate 0 holds a critic score of 87 out of 100. That places it above 88% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 18 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 86, across 54 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
A full completion run takes around 28 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i5, 4 GB RAM and Intel HD Graphics Series (With 1GB memory allocation). At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 15GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Steins;Gate 0 launched on 10 December 2015, within three weeks of Just Cause 3, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, Rainbow Six Siege and Bloodborne: The Old Hunters. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Just Cause 3, Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege, Rainbow Six Siege, Bloodborne: The Old Hunters.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Steins;Gate 0 yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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