STEINS;GATE

Steins;Gate is a 2009 science fiction visual novel game developed by 5pb. and Nitroplus. It is the second game in the Science Adventure series, following Chaos;Head. The story follows 18-year old Rintaro Okabe and his friends as they accidentally invent a form of time travel via text messages that can be sent to the past. The gameplay in Steins;Gate includes branching scenarios with courses of interaction. Steins;Gate was released in Japan for the Xbox 360 in October 2009. The game was ported to Windows in August 2010, PlayStation Portable in June 2011, iOS in August 2011, PlayStation 3 in May 2012, PlayStation Vita in March 2013, and Android in June 2013. JAST USA released the PC version in North America in March 2014, both digitally and as a physical collector's edition, while PQube released the PS3 and Vita versions in North America and Europe in 2015. Additionally, the iOS version was released in English in September 2016. The game is described by the development team as a speculative science ADV. A manga adaptation of the game, written by Yomi Sarachi, was serialized from 2009 to 2013, and later published in North America from 2015 to 2016. A second manga series, illustrated by Kenji Mizuta, began serialization in Mag Garden's Monthly Comic Blade in December 2009. An anime series adaptation by White Fox aired in Japan from April to September 2011, and has been licensed in North America by Funimation. An animated sequel film premiered in Japanese theaters in April 2013. A fan disc of the game, titled Steins;Gate: My Darling's Embrace, was released in June 2011. A non-canon 8-bit sequel to the game, titled Steins;Gate: Hen'i Kuukan no Octet (also known as Steins;Gate: Variant Space Octet and officially localized as Steins;Gate: Octet of Shifting Space), was released in October 2011. Another game, Steins;Gate: Linear Bounded Phenogram, was released in April 2013. A follow-up game, Steins;Gate 0, was released in December 2015 for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and Vita; it received an anime adaptation in 2018. A remake of the original visual novel titled Steins;Gate Elite, which presents fully animated cutscenes from the Steins;Gate anime, was released for the PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Nintendo Switch and Steam in 2019. Included as a bonus for the Nintendo Switch version, an entirely new game called 8-bit ADV Steins;Gate, in the style of Famicom adventure games from the 1980s, was released. Another remake, titled Steins;Gate RE:BOOT, was released on Steam in August 2026, with console releases planned for October 29 that year.