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English	Yes	Yes	—

Language	Interface	Subtitles	Audio
Japanese	Yes	Yes	Yes

RecommendedSteam player

06/12/2025

I know it's not a popular method for every reader, but I ended up torturing myself reading this and S;G0 in the "chronological" order for my first experience. It was an amazing way to read it all for the first time. Played this game all the way to almost the very end, up to a certain point in the story. Closed the game. PLAYED THE ENTIRETY OF STEINS;GATE 0 .... then came back and finally, after being emotionally drained for an extra 30 hours, finished the true ending of this one. I knew nothing about STEINS;GATE going in, read about this method of experiencing it, and man. I do not regret doing it this way at all. To anyone who has the patience to stop at the climax of the first game's story [which I know not everyone would enjoy], I highly recommend reading S;G and S;G0 this way. Changed my brain chemistry. The pay-off of finally finishing the true ending of S;G after going through all of S;G0 is something I can't put into words. Idk how I'll ever replicate the feelings this gave me, I wish I could go in blind again and do it all over for the first time.Show moreShow less

36.3 hours at review573 people found this helpful

Not recommendedSteam player

11/25/2017

Do you like anime? Do you like otaku culture? Do you like the concept of a bunch of otaku friends exchanging banter between each other while slowly working on their time machine which takes the form of a modified microwave, all the while making countless references to Japanese memes (which all have their contexts conveniently explained via an elaborate in-game glossary) and anime/manga? That's the first 10-20 hours of Steins;Gate. There is substance, but it is buried beneath stacks of references that nobody outside of its target audience will appreciate in any way. If you do not like the characters, then the plot of this has absolutely nothing for you for reasons that I cannot really go into without spoiling the game. Steins;Gate is incredibly slow, and if you're not into all of its references/nods to otaku culture, or if you're not captivated by the seemingly endless sci-fi buildup about quantum physics, then you're going to be in for an extremely rough ride. If you like the characters by chapter 3, you will probably really enjoy this. If you hate them, you will not enjoy this. If you cannot suspend your disbelief far enough to accept the levels of stupidity the protagonist will go solely for tangling the plot into a mess that he needs to fix later, then you will not enjoy Steins;Gate. That is my biggest issue with SG--the story feels like it is carrying the characters. It doesn't feel like they make logical decisions with any amount of sense behind them, but rather they make decisions because the writer realizes that they can't continue the story unless they do something irrational and stupid. The foreshadowing is too blatant, and the actions the protagonist takes are too careless to feel any amount of sympathy for him. I can only explain something like this with an example, so the following is an extremely minor spoiler which happens in the beginning hours, before the tone shift of the 6th chapter, so just know that in advance: When the main characters' microwave-time-machine is originally developed, the only thing it is good for is sending emails to the past. The protagonist decides that in order to test the legitimacy of the machine, he should send winning lottery ticket numbers to his past self and see what happens. He is incredibly hesitant, however, and him as well as the others in his circle of friends agree that they should refrain from doing anything too reckless. Therefore they only send a few of the winning lottery numbers so that they won't get too big of a prize or risk anything too serious happening. They are relieved when they find out that their past selves received the emails, but slipped and entered one wrong digit. Early on you meet a character who is a male, but dresses as and wishes to be female. Despite previous reservations about using the time machine for personal gain, the protagonist and all of his friends agree that it is a good idea to send a message to the gender dysphoric character's mother, telling her to eat more vegetables instead of meat, as apparently eating veggies is more likely to make a mother give birth to a girl. So basically, these characters hesitate to alter the past week of their lives, and are even relieved to find out that they do not succeed in doing so... but then immediately afterwards they are completely comfortable with changing the past 16 years for their own personal gain. If you can find it in your heart to feel sorry for a group as incompetent in this one, then go for it and buy Steins;Gate. You'll probably love it. But if anything I've said has made you wary, then you may want to look somewhere else. Steins;Gate has a lot of flaws in its writing that generally makes it hard to swallow unless you either are willing to suspend your disbelief by a considerable margin, or you're genuinely engaged by its slower moments of banter and sci-fi talk. edit: nothing major. just some grammar stuff that bothered me. this isn't a super well written review in general but i figured i could at least make it flow a little betterShow moreShow less

24.5 hours at review125 people found this helpful

RecommendedSteam player

09/09/2016

1.048596/1.048596Show moreShow less

70.1 hours at review236 people found this helpful

Not recommendedSteam player

09/07/2023

YouTuber Shinobu Yoshida was found guilty posting a let's play of Steins;Gate: My Darling's Embrace, sentenced to 2 years prison (suspended for 5 years) and a 1 mil yen fine. It's the first time someone has been found guilty of copyright infringement by posting gameplay videos. Avoid buying this game. This much corporate greed should not be tolerated.Show moreShow less

4.7 hours at review76 people found this helpful

RecommendedSteam player

09/09/2016

+ Best storyline; + Multiple different endings; + Best music ever; + Awesome voice acting; + FullHD backgrounds and sprites with good mouth animation; + D-Mails; + El. Psy. Congroo. - You are mad scientist; - "Organization" is watching you. This is the choice of Steins;Gate. 10 Nyannyan of 10.Show moreShow less

30.1 hours at review235 people found this helpful

Not recommendedSteam player

12/31/2017

Do you want a visual novel with a cryptic intro and then ten hours of filler before anything interesting happens? Do you prefer the complete set of tired, predictable high-school anime tropes to be trotted out, lampshaded, and then beaten to death, rather than actual character development? Do you like when the protagonist is mindnumbingly dense and the entire plot hinges on his stupidity and lack of attention span? Do you enjoy being shown a parade of shallow female characters to be objectified and/or used as the targets of thinly veiled sexual assault fantasies? Oh *man*, do I have the game for you. Okay there was also some fun time travel stuff. Eventually. Full disclaimer: This is the first visual novel I've tried. I tried this one because it had good reviews and came recommended. I suspect I'm not an enthusiast of the genre. The parts I enjoyed revolved around the time travel, and I am a sucker for time travel. I played for about 20 hours total (someday Steam will figure out how to integrate offline play time properly). Played to completion, including most of the endings.Show moreShow less

7.9 hours at review52 people found this helpful

RecommendedSteam player

06/28/2020

紅莉栖は俺の嫁紅莉栖(Kurisu) is my waifu, Kurisu is the best girl! ● Story ✓ Kurisu ✓ Awesome sci-fi story ● Artwork ✓ Kurisu ✓ Great artworks, sprites, CGs, BGs. ● Voice Acting & Soundtrack ✓ Kurisu ✓ great voice acting ✓ impressive soundtrack ● Kurisu ✓ Best girl ✓ Scientist ✓ 助手 (Assistant) ✓ @ちゃんねらー ✓ Christina ✓ The Zombie すべてはシュタインズ・ゲートの選択である El Psy KongrooShow moreShow less

3.7 hours at review200 people found this helpful

Not recommendedSteam player

10/17/2016

While I dislike disagreeing with such an overwhelming consensus, I can't stand this game. This is probably a failure on my part since so many people are rarely wrong simultaneously, but so far as I can tell, the story depends on the protagonists being nincompoops, except when it requires them to be competent; sheer idiots, except when it requires them to be intelligent, and utter jerks, except when it requires them to show a Deep and Caring Heart so we go aww. The events of the story are determined less by the preexisting rules of the setting and the nature of the characters, and more by what the author thought would provoke the emotional reaction he wanted to provoke. I spent thirteen hours getting to the point where the main plot starts and another three and a half deciding I didn't like the main plot. Having gotten to a secondary character's ending which utterly failed to resolve anything, I decided that it wasn't worth going back to the start and replaying it with the help of a guide to see an ending that did. Maybe I'll watch the anime if I want to know how it really ends. Or maybe not. Based on what I've seen, I don't think I'd like the kind of ending that this author would like to write.Show moreShow less

16.5 hours at review45 people found this helpful

RecommendedSteam player

05/29/2017

After watching the Steins;Gate anime, and becoming a little bit obsessed with it, I thought that I would purchase the original game. I am glad I did! It adds a lot of depth to the story and the characters, and helps to explain several parts of the anime that I thought were a little odd and inexplicable. If you have seen the extremely popular anime, I would not say this purchase is essential by any means. But for those like me who want to experience the story again with a little more depth and expansion, I highly recommend it! For those who have not seen the Steins;Gate anime, watch it! It is currently streaming on Funimation (in the US) and can be watched for free is you sign up for the 14-day free trial. It is really fantastic! For those interested in the story but wary of reading a visual novel, it is a good option. Although, be forewarned, the first half of the anime is kind of slow. Anyway, for those who are not aware of Steins;Gate at all, I would purchase this game if you enjoy a cast of quircky characters, well-researched science fiction, and an awesome, complicated plot that somehow manages to avoid the plot holes that plague most time travel stories. Higly recommended. Update (6/28/17): My computer locked up a few days ago and I had to reset it to factory settings. After a day of updating Windows and all of my drivers, I tried to play Steins;Gate today. And... it gave me an error message in Japanese and did not start. So, just FYI, the game is not packaged with all of the software dependencies required to play it. If it fails to start, try installing another recent game or two and then try again.Show moreShow less

40.3 hours at review195 people found this helpful

Not recommendedSteam player

08/09/2023

This is probably the 6th time I've tried writing about Steins;Gate. It's the most conflicted I've ever felt about a game, which has led me to writing and deleting multiple reviews, which culminated in another try last night when the Steam app on my iPhone crashed as I finished writing the sixth paragraph. The reason Steins;Gate is such a difficult game to talk about is because it has soaring highs and literal nauseating lows. So many other games are like this, but Steins;Gate is on another level. I've been agonizing over this ever since I finished reading the novel back in May 2022, and it's high time I put my thoughts in order with a review. I will not be going over the plot of the game, or whether you should buy it or not. As you can see, this review is marked as a negative but that's only because Steam does not allow a neutral review. If you're looking for a tl;dr, I enjoyed (some) of my time with Steins;Gate and I don't regret reading it. I did multiple times during the play through. Steins;Gate's biggest flaw for me is something that might be its best aspect for other people. It's the fact that it's a story that cannot make up its mind on what it wants to be. It wants to be sci-fi, mystery, romance and slice of life all in a single 60 hour package, and ultimately fails at being either of them successfully. This is extremely frustrating because every now and then you catch a glimpse of what the game _could_ be if it committed to being a Sci-Fi or a mystery novel, only for the whole thing to be undermined by the author's relentless insistence on pointless teenage romance. When Steins;Gate (briefly) commits to being a Sci-Fi however, it is easily one of the best stories I've read. The tension that this game builds up with nothing but music, simple visuals and voice acting is breath-taking, which managed to create very real memories in me. I'll never forget the rainy night where I was reading Steins;Gate in my living room TV with my girlfriend laying in my lap, and this is something I'll forever be grateful for. In these moments it really feels like the world is ending, and if the main character doesn't find the stupid IBM computer everything will be over. Unfortunately these moments don't last long, or even long enough for me to call this a Sci-Fi game. Steins;Gate, for some unfathomable reason, decides to spend most of its 60 hour runtime building up unrelatable and annoying characters. Of course character development is an important part of every novel, but it's really hard to care about any of them when the main character's favorite past time is sexual harassment. Like everyone who's ever lived I was a teenager once so Kyouma's insecurities were actually something I could relate to, and even the ways in which it manifested through his general dorkyness and awkwardness (like speaking random English catchphrases, which was something I also did back in my days). The problem is the author seems to have a hard time distinguishing between a teenager being awkward and a teenager sexually harassing his female "friends". This isn't necessarily a bad thing, after all characters can and often are terrible people, but Steins;Gate spends _so long_ doing this that at a certain point it stops feeling like a character being built as an ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and becomes just the author exposing his fetishes unto you through a cast of teenagers. It's disgusting. I could let this go though. I could be comfortable with a 60 hour runtime that comprises of 5 hours of Sci-Fi and genuinely interesting mystery. Hell, some of my favorite novels have a similar quality curve. The problem is, at the very end, the game throws all of it away. Kyouma's and his friends' quest to save the world suddenly becomes Kyouma's personal quest to save the female cast who he wants to sleep with. Of course I'm not opposed to romance, and even think there are some adorable pairs in this game, but the order of events is completely backwards. The tension is built up to literally the entire planet being in danger, only for the story to undermine _itself_ and make it about a single person. If this happened in the opposite order I would've been able to care about the couple in question, and leave satisfied with a story about love and friendship triumphing inhuman odds through science fiction. Unfortunately, what I got is an anime version of The Butterfly Effect starring Ashton Kutcher (great movie by the way). I want to note however, I really really like Makise Kurisu. She's obviously treated like ♥♥♥♥ by the male cast, but the character itself and her arc feels very respectful as a woman in STEM. She's strong, intelligent, and (sometimes) stands up for what she believes even if it means telling the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ in power that he's wrong. Every time she was on screen (and not being sexually harassed) I couldn't wait to see what would happen. I just wish she was in a proper science fiction novel. I want to reiterate that this is only my experience with Steins;Gate, and my reasoning for disliking it is mostly because it fails to deliver on the aspects that led me to reading it in the first place. As a general anime novel, I would say it's probably on the better side. If that sounds interesting, don't let me stop you.Show moreShow less

57.3 hours at review44 people found this helpful

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