STEINS;GATE 0
Worth it · Narrative · 2018
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $34.99, a BANGER if it drops to $17.64.
- Length
- 14.5h
- Value
- $2.41/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 88% over the last 30 days against 96% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics Series (With 1GB memory allocation), 15 GB of storage. Windows only.
If you can't save the one you love… How can you save humanity? Sequel to the visual novel cult classic. Experience an alternate worldline of STEINS;GATE.
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 $6.99. That was October 2024. 60 discounts in the 8 years on record. They run about 60 percent off, roughly 7 weeks apart. Past sales have already crossed the $17.64 BANGER line 56 times.
Value puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 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).
Players rate it 96 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 88 percent. Something recent has soured the room. This site sampled 546 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 92 percent of the 424 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 14.5 hours. Doing everything runs 33, 2.3 times as long.
The drop-off
65% start to 17% rarestNo 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
What players say
Those two bastards Professor Alexis Leskinen and Professor Judy Reyes ,I hate their gutsヽ(`Д´)ﾉ
Love the artstyle direction and music they went with this one, and probably will stay with me forever. Really clever how the story is confusing on purpose, forming a weird and unique experience. Every part may seem disconnected, but all of them are a piece of the puzzle. Using it's time structure to mirror our own struggles in a beautiful and personal way. It is a tragic mirror to Steins;Gate, a remembrance of the...
This is an excellent visual novel that I think anyone who loved Stein's;Gate should probably read. It makes that game's emotional ending all the more meaningful, since it shows you all the different world lines that had to exist in order for Okabe to finally find a world line where Mayuri and Kurisu both survive. At times, it equals the storytelling of the main game. However, there are a few pacing issues and a few...
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Cite this score
STEINS;GATE 0 scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/825630/steins-gate-0Reviews 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 26, price as of Oct 1.
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