Steins;Gate

| Main Game

Genres:

Adventure

Visual Novel

Themes:

Fantasy

Science fiction

Survival

Historical

Mystery

Perspective:

First person

Text

Game modes:

Single player

Released on:

15/10/2009

Platforms:

PlayStation 3

PlayStation 4

Android

PC (Microsoft Windows)

iOS

PlayStation Vita

PlayStation Portable

Xbox 360

Language Support

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Involved Companies:

PQube

Publisher

JAST USA

Publisher

MAGES.

Developer

Publisher

NITRO PLUS

Developer

5pb.

Developer

Publisher

Summary

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 "hypothetical science ADV" and explores time and time travel in 2010 Akihabara. The gameplay follows non-linear plot lines which offer branching scenarios with courses of interaction.

History

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.