Every Steins;Gate game, ranked
All 2 Steins;Gate games we hold, spanning 2009 to 2015: 2 ranked by the GamingPickz Score and plotted below, the rest listed in release order so nothing in the series is missing. Together they carry 35,301 Steam reviews.
Where to start
- For the best-reviewed: Steins;Gate (GamingPickz Score 8.3), the highest-rated entry we can score.
The Steins;Gate games on the grid
Compare the whole catalogueThe same 2 games, plotted rather than listed. The two axes below are the ones the ranking is built from, so a game sitting high and right is a game the formula placed near the top. Change either axis to see the field a different way. Where we hold a publisher wordmark, the game is drawn as its mark rather than a dot.
2 games have both
Axes are fitted to these 2 games rather than the full 0 to 100 scale, because a filtered list shares a narrow band and would otherwise sit in one corner. End values are marked. A point on the left edge is the lowest of thesegames, not a low score.
Players. The share of Steam reviews marked positive, pulled toward the catalogue average in proportion to how few reviews stand behind it. A game with 200 reviews moves a long way toward the average; one with 200,000 barely moves at all. Without this a title sitting at 100 percent on nine reviews outranks Half-Life 2 at 98 percent on 278,000.
Popularity. A blend of two things that are not the same. Audience is how many people wrote a Steam review, which is a floor on how many played it. Reach is how many language editions of Wikipedia document the game, which is cultural footprint rather than sales. A game can score high on one and low on the other: a huge free-to-play title has audience without reach, and a landmark console exclusive has reach without a Steam audience at all. Where both exist they are averaged; where only one does, that one carries it.
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Every point links to that game's entry. The value map and the reception map are fixed views of the same data.
How positions are decided
No paid placement, no favouritism, live third-party data
- Placed by the published method, not by us. Every coordinate is computed from the axis definitions and weights printed on this site. Nobody moves a point. See the axes.
- Nothing here is paid for. No sponsored placements, no promoted slots, no arrangement of any kind affects a position. If that ever changes it will be labelled and sit outside the ranking.
- No favouritism, including our own. The 16 games we have written full reviews of are scored by exactly the same formula as the other 1,510, from the same third-party inputs, and they land where it puts them. Our own opinion of a game does not enter its coordinates.
- A position is not an endorsement. It says how a game was received and what it costs, not that we recommend it. Where we do recommend something, it carries a written review with a name on it.
- Fetched from live third-party data. Player sentiment from Steam, critic aggregates as published on store pages, prices checked hourly, attention from Wikipedia. Each figure carries its source and the date it was read, and we do not adjust any of them.
2 best Steins;Gate games, ranked
Ordered by GamingPickz Score. Every figure links back to the source that produced it.
- 1
Steins;Gate
Best for: A consistently well-received pick in this category
8.3GamingPickz Scorehigh confidenceSteins;Gate at a glance Released 2009 Studio 5pb. Inc. Player sentiment 97% positive of 26,892 Critics 87/100 Price $29.99 Steam Deck playable Install size 13 GB Accessibility 1 declared feature Raw 97% shrinks to 96.8 on 26,892 reviews, then blends with the 87 critic aggregate, giving 8.3.
What the data supports- Small install at 13 GB.
Worth checking first- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
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Steins;Gate 0
Best for: A consistently well-received pick in this category
7.5GamingPickz Scoremedium confidenceSteins;Gate 0 at a glance Released 2015 Studio Mages Player sentiment 96% positive of 8,409 Critics No aggregate Price $34.99 Steam Deck playable Install size 15 GB Accessibility 1 declared feature Raw 96% shrinks to 95.4 on 8,409 reviews, giving 7.5. No critics data, so that weight was redistributed across the rest rather than counted as zero.
Best and worst entry
The best-received Steins;Gate game we can score is Steins;Gate at 8.3. The lowest is Steins;Gate 0 at 7.5, a 0.8-point spread across the series. The GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment, critics and popularity, computed the same way for every game.
Cheapest way in, and best value
- Cheapest right now: Steins;Gate at $29.99. Prices are read live from Steam and move.
- Best value: Steins;Gate, the most GamingPickz Score per dollar in the series at its current price.
On a Steam Deck
Valve's own Deck compatibility rating for the Steins;Gate entries on Steam:
- Playable: Steins;Gate, Steins;Gate 0
Platforms across the series
Where the 2 Steins;Gate games have landed, counting every entry we hold:
| Platform family | Entries |
|---|---|
| PC | 2 of 2 |
| PlayStation | 1 of 2 |
| Xbox | 1 of 2 |
| Mobile | 1 of 2 |
The Steins;Gate series, game by game
Every Steins;Gate game we hold, in release order. Each description is the game's own, from Steam where it has a listing and Wikipedia for the older entries, never ours.
- 2009
Steins;Gate
8.3Developed by 5pb. and Nitroplus, STEINS;GATE was awarded Famitsu magazine's coveted annual Game of Excellence award and was voted one of the most emotionally charged “tear-inducing games” ever made, in a Famitsu poll. It is a gripping and moving Visual Novel, which has already spawned manga and anime adaptations. (Steam)
Plot
Setting and themes Steins;Gate is set in the summer of 2010, approximately one year after the events that took place in Chaos;Head , in Akihabara . Physical locales of Akihabara like the Radio Kaikan building can be spotted in the game. According to Chiyomaru Shikura, who headed the planning of Steins;Gate , Akihabara was chosen because it is an easy place for acquiring hardware parts, which makes it the ideal place for people interested in inventing and… (Wikipedia)
Characters
Rintaro "Okarin" Okabe ( 岡部 倫太郎 , Okabe Rintarō ) Main article: Rintaro Okabe The player assumes the role of Rintaro Okabe , the protagonist of Steins;Gate . Okabe is an eccentric individual, a self-proclaimed mad scientist who often goes by the pseudonym Kyouma Hououin ( 鳳凰院 凶真 , Hōōin Kyōma ) . Mayuri and Daru call him "Okarin" ( オカリン ) , a portmanteau of his surname and given name. (Wikipedia)
Reception
Reception Reviews In 2009, the Famitsu Awards gave Steins;Gate visual novel an annual Game of Excellence award. In 2011, it was voted #6 in Famitsu ' s poll of "most tear-inducing games" of all time. Steins;Gate was nominated for the 2015 Golden Joystick Award in the "Best Handheld / Mobile Game" category. (Wikipedia)
- 2015
If you can't save the one you love… How can you save humanity? Sequel to the visual novel cult classic. Experience an alternate worldline of STEINS;GATE. (Steam)
Plot
Setting The game is set in Akihabara , Tokyo. Steins;Gate set in Akihabara , Tokyo. It follows several characters, including the university student Okabe "Okarin" Rintaro, who, together with his friends Shiina "Mayushii" Mayuri, the neuroscientist Makise Kurisu and the hacker Hashida "Daru" Itaru, accidentally have discovered time travel through the use of a microwave oven and a phone – the PhoneWave – which they used to send text messages and digitized… (Wikipedia)
Reception
Reception Steins;Gate 0 was well received by critics, and was the best-reviewed PlayStation Vita game of 2016 on Metacritic . Kotaku considered it among the best Japan-only video games of 2015; it was the runner-up for RPGFan s Best Adventure/Visual Novel of 2016 award, behind Firewatch , with the publication saying that it rivals the first Steins;Gate ; and in 2020, Nintendo Life called it one of the best visual novels available on the Nintendo Switch.… (Wikipedia)
Steins;Gate, head to head
Two entries side by side on score, price, specs and reception:
Steins;Gate vs other series
How Steins;Gate stacks up against other series in the same genre, as a whole:
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Common questions
How many Steins;Gate games are there?
We hold 2 Steins;Gate games in the catalogue, released between 2009 and 2015. 2 of them carry enough Steam data to rank; the rest are listed in release order below, including console-only entries with no Steam listing.
Which Steins;Gate game is best?
By the GamingPickz Score, Steins;Gate rates highest at 8.3. That is a composite of player sentiment, the critic aggregate and popularity, computed the same way for every game, not our opinion. The full ranking is above.
What order should I play the Steins;Gate games in?
Release order is listed below, from 2009 to 2015. For most series that is also story order, but we list dates rather than telling you a canon; the timeline is read from Wikidata.
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