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STEINS;GATE ELITE

2019

Should you play it?

STEINS;GATE ELITE follows a rag-tag band of tech-savvy young students who discover the means of changing the past via e-mail using a modified microwave.

What works

  • Immersive animated storytelling
  • Deep sci-fi narrative
  • Multiple endings and replayability
  • High quality voice acting and music
  • Includes linear bounded phenogram

Things to keep in mind

  • Some content cut compared to original vn
  • Simplified phone interaction system
  • Variable animation quality
  • Slow pacing in early chapters
  • No multiplayer or social features

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • 7'scarlet

  • TAISHO x ALICE episode 3

  • Fortissimo FA

  • STEINS;GATE 0

  • Hakuoki: Kyoto Winds

  • Chasing Tails ~A Promise in the Snow~

More violent

Games that feels like STEINS;GATE ELITE but with more combat and destruction

  • sweet pool

  • Togainu no Chi ~Lost Blood~

  • DRAMAtical Murder

  • CHAOS;HEAD NOAH

  • Memory's Dogma CODE:01

  • Suicide Countdown: 7 Days

Less survival-focused

Games that feels like STEINS;GATE ELITE but with less survival pressure

  • Monobeno-HAPPY END- Deluxe

  • Fashioning Little Miss Lonesome

  • Maitetsu:Pure Station

  • TAISHO x ALICE episode 1

  • Kanon

  • Memories Off -Innocent Fille- for Dearest

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STEINS;GATE ELITE: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Competition, Thrill. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Survival, Thrill. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Creativity.

Last update: 21/08/2026