Steins;Gate Elite

Steins;Gate Elite
Cover art, featuring (top to bottom) Makise Kurisu, Rintaro Okabe, and Shiina Mayuri
Developer(s)5pb.
Publisher(s)
Producer(s)Tatsuya Matsubara
SeriesScience Adventure
Platform(s)PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Nintendo Switch, Microsoft Windows, iOS
ReleasePS4, NS
  • JP: September 20, 2018
  • WW: February 19, 2019
PlayStation Vita
  • JP: September 20, 2018
Microsoft Windows
  • WW: February 19, 2019
iOS
  • JP: October 15, 2019
Genre(s)
Mode(s)Single-player

Steins;Gate Elite is a science fiction visual novel and interactive movie video game, part of the Science Adventure series. It was developed by 5pb. for PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Nintendo Switch, Microsoft Windows and iOS, and was released in September 2018 in Japan and in February 2019 internationally. It is an updated, fully animated remake of the 2009 game Steins;Gate, using footage from the anime adaptation of the original game along with newly produced animation by White Fox.

The game was created from the desire of its planner, Chiyomaru Shikura, to evolve the visual novel genre: he was influenced by the fully animated game series Yarudora, but as high development costs and a long production time would have prevented a full-length animated visual novel, it was decided to create a game that reused already existing animation. The game has received widespread critical acclaim by critics, in particularly for its story, footage of the anime adaptation of the original game, and visuals.