Release Order Recommended
0 / 2 playedBoth novels in release order. Best for a first read.
Chronological Order
0 / 2 playedBy world line date. Better as a reread.
About Steins Gate
Steins Gate is the Science Adventure visual novel about Okabe mailing past regrets. Steins Gate from October 2009 sets the Future Gadget Lab, D-mails and Kurisu rescue with phone triggers. Steins Gate 0 from December 2015 rewinds the beta timeline where Okabe quits after failure.
Mages and Nitroplus wrote both with the same mail, call and divergence beats. The Zero despair only lands after the rescue. Each novel closes its own line. The phones never die across lines. New mails split every divergence for fans.
Good to know
Release order is the recommended first path, since Zero assumes you know the 2009 rescue. Timeline order suits a rewatch with Zero despair first. Either way, read the 2009 novel for the lab rules before Zero, since the phone triggers return. The lines never merge across both long novels for Okabe today.
