STEINS;GATE
BANGER · Narrative · 2016
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $29.99.
- Length
- 26.3h
- Value
- $1.14/hr
- Reviews
- 97% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics Series (It needs 1GB memory allocation), 13 GB of storage. Windows only.
Developed by 5pb. and Nitroplus, STEINS;GATE was awarded Famitsu magazine's coveted annual Game of Excellence award and was voted one of the most emotionally charged “tear-inducing games” ever made, in a Famitsu poll. It is a gripping and moving Visual Novel, which has already spawned manga and anime adaptations.
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
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.99. That was June 2025. 67 discounts in the 10 years on record. They run about 60 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Life is Strange - Episode 1 (free, scores 94) beats it on value, while it beats Quantum Break ($9.99, scores 71).
The math says it holds its tier up to $45.94, and you are being asked for $29.99.
Critics scored it 87. Players sit 10 points higher at 97 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts 61 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 9 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2022 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,656 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 1,101 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 88 percent of the 1,754 reviews written there were positive, against 97 percent overall, and those are 7 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
95% start to 61% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
188 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 04:45 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Steins;Gate was truly ahead of its time. It starts off pretty slow, but things gradually pick up and get really intense. The VN gives you way more detail than the anime. You get to experience the story from the mad scientist's perspective and see different endings. Also getting the true ending really makes you appreciate the story even more. Definitely recommend it, 1000/10.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
STEINS;GATE scores 93/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/412830/steins-gateReviews 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 17, price as of Oct 1.
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