8-Bit Adv Steins;Gate (2018) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

8-Bit Adv Steins;Gate

Experience the city of Akihabara completely re-imagined in an 8-bit world and solve mysteries as Okarin! When Okarin and his friends made the "Phonewave", they had no idea it would have the ability to send…

20 September 2018

What 8-Bit Adv Steins;Gate is

8-Bit Adv Steins;Gate is a visual novel game developed by 5pb. and released in 2018. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Family Computer and Nintendo Entertainment System.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Experience the city of Akihabara completely re-imagined in an 8-bit world and solve mysteries as Okarin! When Okarin and his friends made the "Phonewave", they had no idea it would have the ability to send emails to the past and, as a result, change the present. Tragedy strikes as an organization behind a global conspiracy seeks to obtain their invention and threaten the fate of humanity! But even when the outcome changes, their fate ends in disaster time and time again... Faced with overwhelming despair, which future will Okarin choose? Change the past to save the future!

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

Its themes are mystery.

Where it sits in the Steins;Gate series

8-Bit Adv Steins;Gate is the 11th of 14 entries we hold in the Steins;Gate series. It arrived 2 years after Steins;Gate Elite. The next entry was Steins;Gate: Divergencies Assort in 2019.

See all 14 Steins;Gate games in release order →

What it launched against

8-Bit Adv Steins;Gate launched on 20 September 2018, within three weeks of Marvel's Spider-Man, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Marvel's Spider-Man and Shadow of the Tomb Raider. It arrived 1 year into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Marvel's Spider-Man, Assassin's Creed Odyssey, Marvel's Spider-Man, Shadow of the Tomb Raider.

8-Bit Adv Steins;Gate — frequently asked questions