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Steins;Gate
A text message to the past
A 2009 visual novel from 5pb. and Nitroplus about a self-styled mad scientist in Akihabara whose home-made gadget starts sending texts to the past, and what that ends up costing him.
- 2009
- First game
- 1
- Series
- 5pb. and Nitroplus
- Creator
Your next late night
The essentials
A legacy worth revisiting
Time travel with a price.
Rintaro Okabe's PhoneWave begins as a laugh, then turns dark as each message rewrites the timeline. Steins;Gate 0 follows a worldline where he failed, and the spin-offs range from romance what-ifs to 8-bit retellings. Elite remakes the original with animation.
Scenes that stay with you
Inside the world
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