PS Vita – Steins;Gate 0 Sealed

Steins;Gate 0 takes place in an alternative future before Steins;Gate’s ending, and is set in Akihabara, Tokyo. It follows several characters, including the university student Okabe “Okarin” Rintaro, who, together with his friends Shiina “Mayushii” Mayuri, the neuroscientist Makise Kurisu and the hacker Hashida “Daru” Itaru, accidentally have discovered time travel through the use of a microwave oven and a phone – the PhoneWave – which they used to send text messages and digitized memory data back in time. The latter, referred to as “time leaping”, essentially transports a person’s mind to their body at an earlier point. This has drawn the attention of SERN, an organization that secretly researches time travel, who sent their team of “Rounders” to confiscate the time machine, including the journalist Kiryu Moeka, killing Mayuri in the process.

Steins;Gate 0 is a visual novel, where the player reads through the story in the form of passages of text and dialogue, accompanied by character sprites and background art. The story consists of multiple branches, which lead to different endings. As opposed to the original Steins;Gate’s single route that runs from start to finish with multiple branch points throughout, Steins;Gate 0 features one branch point near the beginning of the game, where the story splits into two major story branches, which in turn branch again into the different endings; there are in total two main story paths, along with four side stories. The direction of the story is determined based on whether or not the player chooses to answer calls from the artificial intelligence Amadeus, which the player character Okabe Rintaro can communicate with through his cell phone.

Language: English
Players: 1 
Genre: Visual Novel
Developer: 5pb.
Year Release: 2015

This game is region-free for all PS Vita consoles.

**Media is to be assumed VG+ or better unless otherwise stated.