Steins;Gate Elite
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.
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Cover art, featuring (top to bottom) Makise Kurisu, Rintaro Okabe, and Shiina Mayuri | |
| Developer(s) | 5pb. |
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| Producer(s) | Tatsuya Matsubara |
| Series | Science Adventure |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, Nintendo Switch, Microsoft Windows, iOS |
| Release | PS4, NS
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| Mode(s) | Single-player |
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.