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Steins;Gate

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Steins;Gate
Steins;Gate cover
Developers
5pb.
Nitroplus
Publishers
Japan Nitroplus
North America JAST USA
Steam Spike Chunsoft
Engines
Nitroplus N2System
JAST USA N2System
Steam MAGES. Engine
Release dates
Windows October 15, 2009
Reception
Metacritic 87
OpenCritic 87
IGDB 80
Taxonomy
Modes Singleplayer
Pacing Relaxed
Perspectives First-person
Controls Menu-based
Genres Visual novel
Art styles Anime
Themes Contemporary, Japan, Sci-fi
Series Science Adventure
Steins;Gate on HowLongToBeat
Steins;Gate on IGDB
Steins;Gate on MobyGames
Steins;Gate on Wikipedia
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Steins;Gate is a sci-fi visual novel and the second mainline entry in the Science Adventure series developed by 5pb.

General information

Visual Novel Database article
Steam Community Discussions
Kiri Kiri Basara - An English fan site and news resource for the Science Adventure series.

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
DRM-free
JAST USA version on DVD. No difference between original and "Best Edition" aside from price.
Windows
Official website
DRM-free
Nitroplus version, Japan only.
Windows
Official website
DRM-free
JAST USA version.
Windows
Steam
Icon overlay.png
MAGES version.
Windows
The Steam release features higher quality artwork in comparison to the original JAST USA/retail release.[1]

Essential improvements

Improvement patch

Install Steins;Gate Steam Patch
A general overall improvement patch that includes many fixes and improvements for translation, image and audio quality as well as an improved font and typography for the visual novel and phone text.
  1. Extract the contents of the downloaded zip folder.
  2. Run SGPatch-Installer.exe. Note: the patch installer will play music.

Uncompressed FMV videos

Install Steins;Gate Steam HQ FMV Project
Replaces the heavily compressed PC video files with higher quality versions ripped from the PS3 version.
Requires the Steins;Gate Steam Patch listed above.
  1. Extract the contents of the downloaded zip folder.
  2. Copy the languagebarrier folder to the main game folder.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %APPDATA%\Nitroplus\STEINS;GATE
Steam %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\mages_steam\STEINS;GATE\eng
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/412830/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %APPDATA%\Nitroplus\STEINS;GATE
Steam %USERPROFILE%\Documents\My Games\mages_steam\STEINS;GATE\eng
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/412830/pfx/[Note 1]
80 save slots and 48 quicksave slots available.

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video

In-game general and graphics settings.
In-game general and graphics settings.

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen
4K Ultra HD
Maximum resolution of 1920x1080.
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
60 FPS
120+ FPS
Frame rate is capped at 60 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)
See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Game must be started from launcher, which can't be navigated with a controller.
Controller remapping
Controller controls can be remapped in the launcher.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion
Controller types
XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Keyboard and mouse prompts only.
Impulse Trigger vibration
PlayStation controllers
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Generic/other controllers
Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback
Digital movement supported
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

In-game audio settings.
In-game audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Separate sliders for voices, music and sound effects with additional sliders for each individual character's voices.
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

All versions only include one language.
Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Japanese
Russian
Fan translation by «TransLab» and for Steam-version.

Issues fixed

Game hangs at black screen

Use unofficial patch[2]

Missing text in main menu on AMD Radeon RX 5000 series and newer

Use dxvk (Vulkan-based translation layer for Direct3D 9/10/11)[3][4]
Requires Steins;Gate Steam Patch
  1. Install the Steins;Gate Steam Patch if not done already.
  2. Extract the contents of the downloaded archive.
  3. Copy the DLLs from dxvk-1.8.1\x32 into the GATE folder created by the Steins;Gate Steam Patch.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Cutscenes Bink Video 2.5.13.0

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista, 7
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium 4
System memory (RAM) 512 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 10 GB
Video card (GPU) 32 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Other Minimum resolution of 1024x768
With Windows XP and Vista, only the 32-bit versions are officially supported.


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/412830/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (412830) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References