Steins;Gate
| Steins;Gate | |
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North American Windows cover, featuring (left to right) Okabe, Kurisu, and Mayuri
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| Developer(s) | 5pb., Nitroplus |
| Publisher(s) | 5pb.
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| Designer(s) | Chiyomaru Shikura |
| Artist(s) | Huke |
| Composer(s) | Takeshi Abo |
| Series | Science Adventure |
| Platform(s) | Xbox 360, Microsoft Windows, PlayStation Portable, iOS, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Vita, Android, PlayStation 4 |
| Release date(s) |
October 15, 2009
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| Genre(s) | Visual novel |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
| Aggregate scores | |
|---|---|
| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | (PC) 88% |
| Metacritic | (PC) 88/100 (PSV) 83/100 (PS3) 83/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| Destructoid | 8/10 |
| Edge | 7/10 |
| Eurogamer |  |
| Famitsu | 34/40 (9, 9, 7, 9) |
| G4 | 10/10 |
| GamesMaster | 86% |
| GamesTM | 8/10 |
| OPM (UK) | 9/10 |
| Dealspwn | 10/10 |
| Digitally Downloaded | |
| GAMERamble |   |
| Hardcore Gamer | 4/5 |
| Kotaku | 9.75/10 |
| RPGFan | 91% |
| The Guardian |  |
| The Vita Lounge | |
| 9.2/10 | |
| ZT Game Domain | 9.5/10 |
| Awards | |
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| Publication | Award |
| Famitsu Award | Game of Excellence |
| Famitsu | 6th Most Tear-Inducing Game of All Time |
| Golden Joystick Award | Best Handheld / Mobile Game (Nomination) |
Steins;Gate (Japanese: シュタインズ・ゲート Hepburn: Shutainzu Gēto?) is a Japanese science-fiction visual novel developed by 5pb. and Nitroplus. It is the second game in the two companies' Science Adventure series following Chaos;Head. The story follows a group of students as they discover and develop technology that gives them the means to change the past. The gameplay in Steins;Gate follows non-linear plot lines which offer branching scenarios with courses of interaction.
Steins;Gate was released for the Xbox 360 on October 15, 2009. The game was ported to Windows on August 26, 2010, PlayStation Portable on June 23, 2011, iOS on August 25, 2011, PlayStation 3 on May 24, 2012, PlayStation Vita on March 14, 2013, and Android on June 27, 2013. The game is described by the development team as a "hypothetical science ADV" (想定科学ADV Sōtei Kagaku ADV?).JAST USA released the PC version in North America on March 31, 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 is planned to be released in English on September 9, 2016.
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