Steins;Gate

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About

Steins;Gate is a science fiction Visual Novel game from the series Science Adventure, it is the second game of the Science Adventure series, released in 2009 with an anime adaptation released in 2011, the story follows a group of students as they discover and develop technology that gives them the means to change the past with veins of time and time traveling being the main themes of the game. The game is set one year after the events that took place in Chaos;Head, another game from the Science Adventure series in Akihabara, a neighborhood in Tokyo which is the main setting of the series.

History

The game has been released in Japan for the Xbox 360 in October 2009, then ported to Windows in August 2010, then ported to PlayStation Portable in June 2011, then ported to iOS in August in the same year, then ported to PlayStation 3 in May 2012, then ported to PlayStation Vita in March 2013 and then ported to Android in June 2013. The game has been localized to North america starting with the Windows version in March 2014, both digitally and physical as a physical collector's edition. The game has gained many spin-offs (mostly not canon), manga and a sequel game Steins;Gate 0. The game got an anime adaptation by the studio White Fox which ran with 24 episodes and an OVA episode, the anime was then localized by Funimation in North America, the same studio also produced an ONA called Steins;Gate: Sōmei Eichi no Cognitive Computing and a movie, the same studio would later adapt the sequel game Steins;Gate 0, which ran with 23 episodes including an OVA episode.

Reception and Online Presence

The series, especially the anime has gained population over the years, it is considered one of the best anime of the 2010s, the series is ranked third in MyAnimeList with a score of 9.07 ^[1], while the game itself received positive reviews from critics, it has a score of 87/100 (PC) ^[2] and 83/100 (PS3 and Vita) ^[3]^[4] on Metacritic. The series got many memes such as Mayuri's catchphrase "Tuturu~" and the phrase "but he's a guy" by Okabe when he sees Ruka for the first time.