Steins;Gate 2009
- Released
- October 15, 2009
- Genres
- Adventure · Visual Novel
- Platforms
- PlayStation 3 · PlayStation 4 · Android · PC · iOS · PlayStation Vita · PlayStation Portable · Xbox 360
- Developers
- MAGES. · Nitro Plus
- Rating
- 80/100 on IGDB
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About this game
A 2009 visual novel set in Akihabara in the summer of 2010, where a group of students work out that their modified microwave can send a text message into the past. It was built by Nitroplus and 5pb. There is no menu of replies. Everything you decide goes through the protagonist's phone: you take a call or you let it ring, and a word picked out in blue inside a message is the only choice you are offered. Those choices route you towards one of several endings. Nothing marks the ones that matter, so reaching a particular ending usually means following a guide. You are reading a phone, and the phone is what the story is about.