Steins;Gate 0 (シュタインズ・ゲート ゼロ Shutainzu Gēto Zero ) is a Japanese visual novel developed by Mages, and a side entry in the Science Adventure Series, serving as an interquel to the original Steins;Gate visual novel.
The marketing for Steins;Gate 0 referred to it as a "true sequel" to Steins;Gate, as opposed to a spin-off or alternative story, like the previously released Steins;Gate: Linear Bounded Phenogram. Zero itself takes inspiration from the series of light novels known as the "Epigraph Trilogy", though it is not a direct adaptation.
Steins;Gate 0 was released in Japan on December 10, 2015 for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4 and the PlayStation Vita. It was later released for Windows on August 26, 2016, the Xbox One on February 21, 2017, and the Nintendo Switch on March 20, 2019.
An English localization was released by PQube for the PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita on November 25, 2016 in Europe and four days later in North America, both with regular and limited editions[1][2]. It was later re-released for Steam by Spike Chunsoft on May 8, 2018.
Overview[]
Steins;Gate 0 takes place after a hypothetical bad ending to Steins;Gate, where main character Rintaro Okabe fails to save the life of Kurisu Makise after travelling back in time and gives up. Zero follows the consequence of Rintaro's choice and the effects it has in the world, as World War III draws closer with each passing day.
Several months later, Okabe attends a lecture by Alexis Leskinen and Maho Hiyajo, from Viktor Chondria University, the university at which Kurisu worked. There, he is presented project Amadeus, an advanced artificial intelligence capable of replicating a person based on their memories, by using Kurisu's previously published thesis as a basis.
Upon getting to meet Maho Hiyajo and Dr. Leskinen, Rintaro is presented with the opportunity to act as a tester for Amadeus, or, more precisely, a version of Amadeus that uses the memories of the deceased Kurisu Makise.
Chapters[]
0 | Prologue | |
TBA | ||
1 | Absolute Zero - Missing Link of the Annihilator | |
Six months have passed since Rintaro Okabe, unwilling to change the past, chose to stay in a timeline where Kurisu Makise is dead, discarding his identity as a self-proclaimed mad scientist. Suzuha Amane, the future daughter of Itaru Hashida who had traveled back in time to convince Rintaro to help her prevent World War III, has been pretending to be Daru's sister to keep her identity a secret from her future mother, Yuki Amane. As Rintaro, still traumatized over his experiences with changing world lines, continues to refuse to help Suzuha, he attends a seminar held by Professor Alexis Leskinen and his assistant Maho Hiyajo. Prior to the seminar he became shocked to find Moeka Kiryu with them. During the seminar, Alexis and Maho present Amadeus, an artificial intelligence program based on Kurisu's research before her death. | ||
2 | Closed Epigraph - Epigraph of the Closed Curve | |
While waiting for Amadeus to load, Rintaro Okabe lashes out at a naysayer in the crowd doubting Kurisu Makise's research, earning praise from Alexis Leskinen. Maho Hiyajo then presents Amadeus, which runs an AI version of herself that was implanted with her memories four days ago, demonstrating that it is capable of its own decisions and behaves just like a human. Following the seminar, Rintaro speaks with Maho about the project, revealing that he was Kurisu's friend. Hearing about this, Leskinen and Maho invite Rintaro to converse with an Amadeus AI formed from Kurisu's memories of eight months ago prior to her death. Coming to Maho's lab, Rintaro is greeted by the Amadeus version of Kurisu, becoming surprised to find that her thoughts on time machines differ from what the original Kurisu initially said. Afterwards, Leskinen and Maho recruit Rintaro as a temporary tester, installing an app on his phone allowing him to converse with Amadeus Kurisu and provide data. | ||
3 | A Stray Sheep - Solitude of the Mournful Flow | |
TBA | ||
4 | The Orbital Eclipse - Eclipse of Orbital Ordering | |
Now that the girl's identity is known, Okabe and friends kick off the New Years with a shrine visit and party to never forget. | ||
4b | Twin Automata | |
The attack helicopters that appeared belong to the Russians, and not to Leskinen's forces or the US army. Will it be possible to avoid destroying the time machine despite Rintaro Okabe's numerous futile tries? Rintaro, who faced many difficulties without giving up, now faces a single bitter decision. | ||
5 | Antinomic Dual - Dual of Antinomy | |
From the inaccessible [Kurisu] comes a voice asking to be saved. Immediately after that, the world line shifts to Alpha, triggering Rintaro Okabe's Reading Steiner. In the new world line, the Amadeus app is not present on his smartphone, and Kurisu Makise is standing before him, alive and well. | ||
5b | Recursive Mother Goose - Mother Goose of Mutual Recursion | |
Since receiving an assault in the laboratory, no accident has occurred around Kagari Shiina. However, that memory has not returned yet. Meanwhile, she heard a song that Mayuri Shiina is humming lately. At that moment, she suddenly loses her mind. | ||
6 | Promised Rinascimento - Rinascimento of the Unwavering Promise | |
Rintaro should have been leaping to the 7th of July. Suddenly, he woke up in the room in an unknown facility. He looked around while holding back the pain from his entire body, and was surprised to find out where he had been placed all this time. Then when he leaves the facility, there ... | ||
7 | X-day Protocol - Protocol of the Two-sided Gospel | |
As Mayuri Shiina prepares for a Christmas party for everyone at the lab, Rintaro Okabe shows Amadeus Kurisu – who he keeps a secret from his friends – around Akihabara and the lab. On Christmas Eve, Alexis Leskinen and Maho Hiyajo end up joining Rintaro to the party, which proves to be more than a surprise when Suzuha Amane assumes it is an ambush and almost attacks Yuki Amane. While everyone else enjoys the party, Mayuri overhears Rintaro speaking happily with Amadeus Kurisu, prompting Maho to step in and remind him that the real Kurisu is still dead, inadvertently sending him into a shock. | ||
8 | Pandora's Box - Pandora of Eternal Return | |
Rintaro Okabe who reunited with Kurisu Makise in α (alpha) world line, after they tryst; He who woke up at the hospital bed returned to the β (beta) world line again. It seemed like everything was back. But while Rintaro was sleeping, following the takeovers of [Kurisu], there were some disturbing incidents in their surroundings. | ||
8b | Gehenna's Stigma | |
TBA | ||
9 | Presage of Recognize - Recognition of the Elastic Limit | |
TBA | ||
10 | Vega and Altair - Altair of the Point at Infinity | |
In the wake of invitation from Professor Leskinen to join his research team, Rintaro is working hard by every day with the aim to study abroad. However, Mayuri had some secret feelings for Rintaro, and realized that she must desperately trying to keep her feeling away. On the other hand, Maho, which is now working with Daru, now was challenged to reproduce the PhoneWave (name subject to change). | ||
11 | Milky-way Crossing - Stardust of Intersected Coordinates | |
By sending the "D-RINE" to the past, the existence of [Kurisu] disappeared and prevented the Russian government from intervening in the time machine battle. After that, how will Rintaro overcome the confrontation with Leskinen? The final battle leading to "Steins;Gate" ending is about to begin. |
Cast[]
Main Characters[]
- Rintaro Okabe: The ex-mad scientist and leader of the Future Gadget Lab. He has given up on saving Kurisu Makise and reaching the Steins Gate World Line, and suffers from severe PTSD due to his experiences on other worldlines. He is trying to live a normal life, even if he knows that World War III is bound to happen.
- Mayuri Shiina: Okabe's childhood friend. While she still remains as enthusiastic and naïve as before, she is the one that is the most affected by Okabe's change in attitude.
- Maho Hiyajo: A researcher at Viktor Chondria University, specialized in artificial intelligence, and Kurisu's senior.
- Amadeus Kurisu: An AI system based off of the memory data of Makise Kurisu.
- Suzuha Amane: A time traveler from the year 2036, and Itaru Hashida's daughter. She is trying to convince Rintaro Okabe to go back in time and change the future.
- Itaru Hashida: Okabe's hacker friend, and the only one that keeps using the lab besides Suzuha. He has recently also acquired a part-time job, though he does not want to talk about it.
Supporting Characters[]
- Alexis Leskinen: A professor at Viktor Chondria University, and the main mind behind Project Amadeus. He quickly develops a liking for Okabe.
- Kagari Shiina: Mayuri's adopted daughter from the year 2036. She came back alongside Suzuha, but went missing in 1999.
- Kurisu Makise
- Luka Urushibara
- Moeka Kiryu
- Faris Nyannyan
- Yuugo Tennouji
- Nae Tennouji
- Yuki Amane
- Judy Reyes
- Kaede Kurushima
- Katsumi Nakase
- Eisuke Urushibara
- Kuroki
- Dr. Nakabachi
- Shimoyama
Gameplay[]

Okabe's smartphone with RINE & Amadeus apps installed
Steins;Gate 0 features a new twist on the "Phone Trigger" system introduced in the original work. The protagonist Rintaro Okabe's old mobile phone has been changed to a smartphone, and the story's route can be changed using two applications installed on the new device.
As a tester given access to Amadeus, Okabe is able to communicate with [Kurisu] through a dedicated app, and [Kurisu] is able to contact him at will as well...
Further, in place of the emails from the previous work, a messaging app called RINE, which was developed by Daru, is used to respond to Okabe's friends.[3] Even the digital stickers used in the app are expected to effect the course of the game.[4]
Crew[]
Staff[]
- Planning and Author: Chiyomaru Shikura
- Producer: Tatsuya Matsubara
- Character Design: huke
- Scenario: Naotaka Hayashi, Toru Yasumoto, Masaki Takimoto, Tsukasa Tsuchiya
- Music: Takeshi Abo[5]
Development[]
Release[]
On March 28, 2015, Chiyomaru Shikura, executive director of Mages. Inc., held a TwitCast, in which he announced the visual novel.[6] It was originally slated for release on PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, and PS Vita on November 19, 2015. However, on October 13, 2015, 5pb. announced that the game would be delayed until December 10, 2015 in order to improve product quality. On March 31, 2016, a port for Windows PC was announced, slated for release on June 24, 2016. However, its final release date became August 26, 2016. After announcing on January 26, 2017 via Twitter that a digital-only release would be coming soon for Xbox One, the Xbox release was launched on February 21, 2017, during a special Winter Sale held by 5pb. for several of its titles.[7][8]
The English release of the title by PQube for PlayStation 4 and PS Vita was announced on May 25, 2016.[9] The title launched in Europe on November 25, 2016 and four days later in North America.[10] The game released in English and Japanese on Steam on May 8, 2018.[11]
Zero has been given a "'C' ages 15 and up" rating by CERO in Japan.[12]
A PEGI rating in Europe of "ages 16 and up".
And, an ESRB rating of "Mature, ages 17 and up" in North America.
Promotion[]
- Main article: Steins;Gate 0 (visual novel)/Promotions
Since the game was first announced in early 2015, a variety of promotions were held both in Japan and abroad for the Japanese and English releases, ranging from convention giveaways and voice actor panels to video trailers and online countdowns.
Trailers[]
Artwork[]
Walkthrough[]
- Main article: Steins;Gate 0 (visual novel)/Walkthrough
Music[]
The opening song is sung by Ito Kanako with lyrics written by Shikura Chiyomaru and is entitled "Amadeus"(アマデウス). Zwei[† 1] sings the ending song, entitled "Lyra"(ライア). Shikura Chiyomaru once again provided the lyrics and Oshima Kousuke did the composing. [13]
Opening[]
The BGM in the second trailer is used as the opening[14]
Gallery[]
- Main article: SG0 Screenshots
Character Visuals[]
Adaptations[]
- Steins;Gate 0 (anime)
- Steins;Gate 0 (manga)
- Steins;Gate 0 (light novel)
- Steins;Gate 0 Elite
External Links[]
- Official website (English)
- Official website (Japanese)
- Official website for the PC port (Japanese)
- Official website for the Xbox One port (Japanese)
- Shikura Chiyomaru's recorded live TwitCast announcing SG0 and anime
- 5pb. Tokyo Game Show 2015 page (Japanese)
References[]
- ↑ Who sung the ending song "Memories of that Summer Day"(あの夏の日の想い出) for Steins;Gate: Linear Bounded Phenogram and a number of songs for the Robotics;Notes series
- ↑ http://www.pqube.co.uk/games/steinsgate-0-release-date-and-trailer-revealed/
- ↑ http://www.ricedigital.co.uk/steinsgate-0-collectors-edition-amadeus-edition-announced-rice-digital-exclusive/
- ↑ http://steinsgate0.jp/game/ (Japanese)
- ↑ Shūkan Famitsū magazine July 9 issue (published June 25, 2015), p.41
- ↑ http://gematsu.com/2015/03/steinsgate-0-announced
- ↑ http://www.animenewsnetwork.co.uk/news/2015-03-28/steins-gate-0-follow-up-game-and-anime-announced/.86470
- ↑ http://gematsu.com/2017/01/steinsgate-0-coming-xbox-one-japan-digital-title
- ↑ https://www.famitsu.com/news/201702/22127497.html (Japanese)
- ↑ http://www.ricedigital.co.uk/steinsgate-0-english-2016-release-in-europe-north-america-confirmed/
- ↑ http://www.pqube.co.uk/games/steinsgate-0-release-date-and-trailer-revealed/
- ↑ http://store.steampowered.com/app/825630/STEINSGATE_0/
- ↑ http://www.famitsu.com/news/201506/25081819.html (Japanese)
- ↑ http://www.famitsu.com/news/201508/06085303.html (Japanese)
- ↑ http://www.famitsu.com/news/201507/08082712.html (Japanese)