ROBOTICS;NOTES ELITE

ROBOTICS;NOTES ELITE

Worth it · Narrative · 2020

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $34.99.

Length
28.3h 47h to 100%
Value
$1.24/hr
Reviews
91% of 723 positive
No price makes it a BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Reviews91% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 89% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Value$1.24/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 364 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Thanks to the rising popularity of the PhoneDroid—a device which features augmented reality (A.R.)—the age of advanced technology has finally reached Tanegashima. On that island, Central Tanegashima High's "Robot Research Club" is about to have their club disbanded.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Geforce (VRAM 1GB or better), 15 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 42 times in the 6 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

Value puts it in the top 6 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Talos Principle ($29.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Phoning Home (free, scores 24).

More about ROBOTICS;NOTES ELITE

Critics scored it 82. Players sit 9 points higher at 91 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.

None of the 364 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2020 to August 2026.

The drop-off

87% start to 23% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements

Players

Players online
4 when we last checked, on Oct 15, 03:54 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

easily approachable, if far more grounded than usual (in terms of story content), high quality third entry in the science;adventure series. unlike with steins;gate, it's necessary to read both previous entries to get the full experience, in my opinion. they don't make perverts like frau koujiro no more!
okRecommendedafter 41hAug 2026Read on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
The third installation in the sci;adv series. I honestly enjoyed it a lot! I felt like I read through it extremely quickly, though. It makes me realize just how much I actually enjoyed the OSTs in every game the series has to offer, all of them are back-to-back-to-back bangers absolutely. Robotics;notes in particular was not the most appreciated game I saw online, but it genuinely wasn't so bad at all. It's...
slehcRecommendedafter 29hAug 2026Read on Steam
Overly verbose story for no purpose other than to drag out the runtime. The plot in general is quite mid with an anticlimactic ending. Quite disappointing as the concept could have been cool and the introduction was quite good
RoxyThighsNot recommendedafter 11h4 found this helpfulRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

Cite this score

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ROBOTICS;NOTES ELITE scores 71/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1111380/robotics-notes-elite
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+9
Critics82
Players91
Metacritic critics · 723 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperMAGES. Inc.
PublisherSpike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
GenreNarrative
Released2020
Players35Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements50