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Being a [[Mad Scientist]] is ''awesome''. Converting your ''microwave'' so that you can [[Time Travel|send e-mails to the past]]? ''Awesome''.
Being stalked by a secret organization doing their ''own'' [[Time Travel]] experiments and dead
The [[Spiritual Successor]] to ''[[Chaos;Head]]'', ''[[Steins;Gate]]'' is set roughly one year after the events of the previous game, in the Akihabara area. Like most of his friends, Rintaro Okabe loves experimenting, tinkering with different gadgets and inventions. However, he's taken this love so far as to declare himself a [[Mad Scientist]]
Shortly thereafter, Rintaro and Hashida run into Kurisu, very much alive, and Hashida mentions receiving a text babbling about the discovery ''one week ago''. Investigating further, they realize that by constantly upgrading and customizing their microwave, they've stumbled across the secret of [[Time Travel]]... or, at least, sending text messages back in time, which is a starting point, right?
Unfortunately, they're not the only ones interested in time travel. The shadowy organization SERN has been running their own experiments, and thanks to Rintaro's frantic text to Hashida, they've clued
Instead of the "delusion trigger" system introduced in ''Chaos;Head'', ''Steins;Gate'' uses the similar "phone trigger": whenever somebody calls Rintaro, he can choose whether or not to answer. Text messages include blue hyperlinks that can be selected to reply to the text. The player's choices determine what sort of path the plot takes.
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An official English translation was released on [[Steam]] in August of 2016.
In 2011, the game received a romantic comedy spin-off called ''Steins;Gate: My Darling's Embrace'', which focuses more on Okabe's relationships with six of the other lab mems. Another spin-off called ''Steins;Gate: Linear Bounded Phenogram'' was released two years later in 2013, which a collection of short stories, each told through the eyes of other characters besides Okabe. Both games received worldwide English releases in 2019.
A [[Spiritual Successor]] to ''[[Steins;Gate]]'', ''Robotics;Notes'', was released as a game in June 2012, with an anime following later that same year.▼
▲A [[Spiritual Successor]] to ''[[Steins;Gate]]'', ''Robotics;Notes'', was released as a game in June 2012, with an anime following later that same year. In 2018, a "true sequel" to ''Steins;Gate,'' known simply as ''Steins;Gate 0'' was released on all major platforms at the time, and it also received a 23-episode anime adaptation the same year.
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* [[Bishonen]]: Ruka, {{spoiler|at least in most timelines}}.
* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: {{spoiler|In the true ending, Rintaro prevents both bad futures and Kurisu's death, but with the exception of Rintaro, none of the Lab Members retain any memories of their experiences, and Suzuha completely disappears as a result of the [[Time Paradox]] (as there's a chance she might never be born in the future of the new timeline). However, it is hinted that the members might not have completely forgotten their memories, as shown when Rintaro meets Kurisu again in Akihabara, and she still has memories of the nicknames Rintaro gave to her}}.
** However, despite that, {{spoiler|many of the characters that would have suffered [[Downer Ending]] fates have their lives turned around.
* [[Bland-Name Product]]: [[Magical Particle Accelerator|SERN]] and [[IBM Personal Computer|IBN]] play an important part in the plot. However, there's also [[Google|Goodle]], [[YouTube|MewTube]], [[Clannad (visual novel)||CLADANDAN]], [[AKB48|KBA84]] and [[Doujinshi|Comima]].
** [[Averted Trope|Averted]] with Dr. Pepper.
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* [[Cerebus Syndrome]]: The series starts off as reasonably light-hearted (not that it didn't have its occasional dark moments), but when episode {{spoiler|12 comes around, and Mayuri dies, the emotional intensity is cranked [[Up to Eleven]]}}.
* [[Character-Magnetic Team]]: Most of the cast are lab members. Though it's somewhat subverted because several years pass between the formation of the lab and the addition of new members apart from the original three (Daru, Mayuri, Okabe).
* [[Chekhov's Gun]]: {{spoiler|Remember the Metal
* [[Chekhov's Gunman]]: {{spoiler|Mister Braun, literally, as he shoots Moeka and himself upon the gang discovering that he is FB}}.
* [[Chick Magnet]]: Rintaro, depending on if you view Mayuri's, Ruka's and Faris' feelings towards him as romantic.
* [[Conspiracy Thriller]]
* [[Cosplay Otaku Girl]]: Mayuri, Faris.
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* [[Disappeared Dad]]: {{spoiler|Faris's father, who died in a plane crash. This makes her use D-Mail to save her father and causes Akihabara to become well-known for electrical appliances instead of otaku culture. In addition, her father saved her from a kidnapping incident by selling his IBN 5100 to SERN in the past}}.
* [[The Ditz]]: Mayuri, who can suddenly stop at a place doing Stardust Handshake, much to the dismay of Rintaro.
** That is to say nothing about how easily Double Entendres and Sexual Innuendos seem to fly over her head.
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: In episode 19, taken out of context, the brawl Okabe has with {{spoiler|Moeka}} looks very much like a rape in progress.
* [[The Dog Was the Mastermind]]: {{spoiler|The identity of FB turns out to be none other than Rintaro's beleaguered landlord Mr. Braun}}.
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* [[Earn Your Happy Ending]]: And How!
* [[The Empire]]: {{spoiler|Alpha timeline SERN in the future}}.
* [[Everything Trying to Kill You]]: {{spoiler|You are fated to die when the world says so, no time traveling can change that. If the world doesn't want you dead on that moment, you will never die, no matter what. Oh, and the kicker? If there is nothing there to kill you, you will simply (and quite literally) drop dead right then and there}}.
* [[Fake-Out Make-Out]]: {{spoiler|Rintaro does this to Moeka when a neighbor comes to see what the source is of all the racket caused by their struggle, and gets bitten for his efforts. Luckily for him, the neighbor [[Failed a Spot Check|failed the spot check]] for the resulting spectacle ends up looking less like a make-out and more like a rape in progress}}.
* [[Fake Band]]: FES.
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{{quote|{{spoiler|''Experiment Result: Human is dead, mismatch''}}.}}
** {{spoiler|Mayuri's last name is Shiina. You can figure out the rest}}.
* [[Full-Name Basis]]: Suzuha, with a few
* [[Funny Schizophrenia]]: If you are familiar with schizophrenia, then it becomes immediately obvious that Rintaro shows symptoms of it (such as his constant paranoia). However, his schizophrenia is typically used for the sake of humor, and it can be enjoyable to understand how his condition affects his mindset over course of the story.
** It soon becomes apparent he does it on purpose, so it wouldn't really qualify as schizophrenia.
* [[Gamer Chick]]: Mayuri and Faris.
* [[Gameplay and Story Segregation]]: In Chapter 7, Okabe's phone goes off while hiding from his pursuers, alerting them to his presence. This will always happen even if the player sets it to vibration only.
* [[Geek Physiques]]: Rintaro is skinny. Itaru, on the other hand, is extremely fat.
* [[Gender Bender]]: {{spoiler|Using D-Mail, Rintaro changes Ruka's gender to female}}. {{spoiler|It causes the possibility where she broke IBN 5100}}.
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** Ruka: Rukako.
** Yuugo: Mr. Braun, {{spoiler|FB}}.
** Nae: Small Woodland Animal/Sister Braun.
* [[Innocent Innuendo]]: [[Lampshaded]] by Itaru every single time, much to Kurisu's annoyance.
* [[Insane Equals Violent]]: {{spoiler|Moeka totally loses it once she's accepted by FB, and kills Mayuri just because FB told her to}}.
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* [[Large Ham]]: Rintaro, oh SO MUCH! It makes him funny and awesome!
** Not like anyone takes his ham seriously other than Ruka or possibly Faris.
** Speaking of, Faris is the only other character who can match Okabe in terms of sheer wackiness.
* [[Laser Blade]]: One of Rintaro's many inventions is the Cyalume Saber, which is pretty obviously Darth Vader's lightsaber.
* [[Leaning on the Fourth Wall]]:
** When Rintaro tells Daru about his exploits in previous world lines, Daru jokes that it sounds fantastic enough to be the plot of a light novel.
** A strange variety of this comes up when Mayuri gets Ruka to crossdress and Kurisu stares at him for a little bit (when she thought Ruka was a girl). Itaru even notes how [[Lampshade Hanging|yuri]] it is with Okabe quickly pointing out that it's not since Ruka's a guy.
** Daru in particular has a habit of referencing the fact that he and his friends are in a video game, what with the mentions of "flags" for certain character routes. He does this in spin-off games more often.
* [[Lighter and Softer]]: ''Steins;Gate Hiyoku Renri no Darling'', the sequel that focuses less on time travel conspiracies and more on fun and relationships.
* [[Locked Out of the Loop]]: {{spoiler|Mayuri regarding her fated deaths. However, she frequently has feelings of deja vu about them}}.
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**Faris, who is a gamer, otaku, and moe fanatic who plays along with Okabe's chuunibyou antics.
**Moeka, whose closest relationship is with her phone, has a figure that would make a supermodel jealous, and can potentially form a genuine relationship with Okabe in certain VNs.
**The rom-com spin-off title, ''My Darling's Embrace'', focuses on potential relationships Okabe can have with the girls in his circle (yes, that includes Ruka).
* [[Never the Selves Shall Meet]]: This is obviously not a problem considering that Rintaro uses [[Mental Time Travel]], but it comes into play at the end of the series when {{spoiler|Suzuha helps him alter the past with a "conventional" time machine}}.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: {{spoiler|By choosing to use D-Mail to mess up the past, Mayuri will die, and SERN is dead set on capturing you}}.
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**He gives Kurisu more nicknames that anybody else, much to her irritation. Such names include "Christina", "The Zombie", Miss Next-Gen", "Banana Queen", "Assistant", and so one, so forth.
* [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]]: {{spoiler|Rintaro fights Moeka in her apartment in order to get her D-Mail message}}.
*[[Noodle People]]: most of the girls have slender builds and long legs. Okabe is this from a distance in certain shots, too. More so in the anime than the games.
* [[Oh Crap]]: Rintaro, every time Mayuri's watch stops, since it means {{spoiler|that she's about to die again}}.
* [[Ojou]]: {{spoiler|Faris, her real name being Rumiho Akiha}}.
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* [[Real Place Background]]: Makise Kurisu's institution in America, Victor Chondria University, is modeled on real world Columbia University. This is seen in depictions of the campus and the university ID card in the manga adaptation of ''Epigraph of the Closed Curve''.
** Many of the locations in the series are based on actual places in Akihabara. Highlights includes ''MeyQueen NyanNyan'' which is based on the ''Mai-lish'' maid cafe and The Future Gadget lab itself, which is based on an actual shop, if you go by the address that Okabe mentioned in the beginning of the game. Amusingly, there is an HDTV store in the same location where Braun TV should be.
** During the special episode, a lot the locales in Los Angeles have been recreated with surprising accuracy such as the LAX to name one example.
* [[Redemption Equals Death]]: {{spoiler|Moeka apologizes for her other world line self killing Mayuri after getting stabbed by Nae}}.
* [[Rescue Romance]]: This is how Ruka and Rintaro met. {{spoiler|In the timeline where Ruka is a female, she fell in love with him. And hinted that Ruka fell in love in the timeline where he's a guy}}.
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*[[That Came Out Wrong]]: In Episode 18 in which Faris mentions Rintaro's "Special Technique" right in front of Kurisu, the latter then asks for elaboration. She responds with this word for word when she realises what she just said, and predictably goes bright red from it.
* [[Theme Naming]]: Rintaro tends to name endeavors "Operation (figure from [[Norse Mythology]])". Lampshaded by Kurisu, and later by Rintaro when she makes up her own Norse-flavored Operation.
* [[Third Person Person]]: Mayuri, referring to herself as Mayushii☆. Faris also speaks in this fashion.
* [[Thirteen Is Unlucky]]: {{spoiler|The SERN raid on the lab and Mayuri's murder in the initial timeline}} occur on a Friday the 13th.
* [[This Is Unforgivable!]]: {{spoiler|Rintaro hates Moeka with passion for cold-heartedly killing Mayuri. Subverted later when [[Redemption Equals Death|Moeka dies]]}}.
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* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]: Amane claimed that Kurisu {{spoiler|would work for SERN in the future, but it's never fully addressed or explained why, even by the show's end}}.
** {{spoiler|While not concrete proof that this was the case, Suzuha mentions in the same chapter that SERN wouldn't hesistate to hold family members hostage in order to force researchers like Kurisu to go along with them. Kurisu's frightened reaction over her father at the mention of this makes it seem like a very likely possibility that her involvement with SERN was under duress}}.
** Suzuha's story arc in ''Linear Bounded Phenogram'' - "Ghostly Rendezvous" - actually has her talk directly to Kurisu about why she is hostile towards her at first. She realises that Kurisu isn't as bad as she had initially perceived.
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Rintaro, sometimes. {{spoiler|The most significant one is when Rintaro chooses let to Mayuri remain dead so Ruka can remain being a girl}}.
* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: Rintaro is clearly trying hard to be a [[Magnificent Bastard]] like [[Code Geass|Lelouch]], but his initially ordinary life frustrates these ambitions, twisting his lines into comedy, with his friend Itaru claiming he is simply "deluded", even admitting that he (Rintaro) is the only one who really cares about "[[Large Ham|destroying the ruling structure of the world]]." {{spoiler|By the end, however, this is reversed, and those same lines sound downright awesome, and very convincing, notably at the [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|end of episode 23]]}}.
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