Steins;Gate
Steins;Gate is a Japanese visual novel developed by 5pb. and Nitroplus. It is the second game in the Science Adventure series following Chaos;Head. The game is described by the development team as a…
Steins;Gate is an adventure developed by 5pb., released 15 October 2009 on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable. The main story takes about 20 hrs to finish.
What Steins;Gate is
Steins;Gate is an adventure game developed by 5pb. and released in 2009. It is available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Xbox 360, Android, iOS and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
The story of Steins;Gate takes place in Akihabara and is about a group of friends who have customized their microwave into a device that can send text messages to the past. As they perform different experiments, an organization named SERN who has been doing their own research on time travel tracks them down and now the characters have to find a way to avoid being captured by them.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are historical, mystery, science fiction and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 42 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Steins;Gate series
Steins;Gate is the first of 14 entries we hold in the Steins;Gate series. The next entry was Steins;Gate Double Pack in 2011. Its critic score of 80 is 2 points below the series average of 82. The highest-rated entry is Steins;Gate 0 at 87.
How it was received
Steins;Gate holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 13 points above the year average. Players rate it 86, 6 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 20 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 40 hrs, roughly 2 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Core i3 of Sandy Bridge generation or better, 4 GB RAM and Intel HD Graphics Series (It needs 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 13GB. 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 launched on 15 October 2009, within three weeks of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Dragon Age: Origins, Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition and Bayonetta. All of them reviewed better. It was a PlayStation 4 launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, Dragon Age: Origins, Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition, Bayonetta.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Steins;Gate yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
All media
Characters
All 12
Dlc
Remakes
Quick answers
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