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Can I Run Steins;Gate?

MAGES. Inc. released Steins;Gate in 2016. It is an adventure game, published by Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.. The game supports a single player campaign. With more than 24 thousand player reviews on Steam, its behaviour on real hardware is well documented. It is a Windows title, so the requirements below are the Windows ones. Progress follows the account through Steam Cloud rather than sitting on one disk. Metacritic places it at 87. Completionists have 42 achievements to work through. Being over ten years old, its ceiling was set by the hardware of a different era. Only some of the game is mapped to a controller.

Developer MAGES. Inc.Publisher Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.Release 2016Genre Adventure
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System requirements

Minimum requirements

CPUCore i3 of Sandy Bridge generation or better
GPUIntel HD Graphics Series (It needs 1GB memory allocation)
VRAM1 GB
RAM4 GB
Storage13 GB
OSWindows7/8.1/10
DirectX9

Recommended requirements

CPUCore i5 of Ivy Bridge generation or better
GPUGeforce (VRAM 1GB or better)
VRAM1 GB
RAM4 GB
Storage13 GB
OSWindows7/8.1/10 (64bit ver)
DirectX9

Verified from Steam · 9 Jul 2026 source

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Setting and environment

Players spend their time in an anime styled world, moving through scenes presented as illustrated text. There are 6 official screenshots to judge the look from.

Why Steins;Gate is demanding

Steins;Gate needs only 4 GB of RAM. Steins;Gate takes about 13 GB of disk space. Video memory is not the constraint here, at 1 GB. It targets DirectX 9, an older feature level that almost anything still running will satisfy. Steins;Gate needs 64 bit Windows.

This reading comes from the published requirements and our own benchmark tables, not from the store listing.

Can you run Steins;Gate?

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Can run iton a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the processor is the tightest fit.

Steins;Gate targets a mainstream modern PC: Intel HD Graphics Series (It needs 1GB memory allocation) and 4 GB of RAM for the minimum, stepping up to Geforce (VRAM 1GB or better) for the recommended experience. No single part dominates the requirements, so a balanced mid-range build clears it.

Bottleneck: CPU

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Frequently asked questions

Can my PC run Steins;Gate?

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What are the minimum system requirements for Steins;Gate?

The minimum requirements are CPU: Core i3 of Sandy Bridge generation or better; GPU: Intel HD Graphics Series (It needs 1GB memory allocation); 4 GB RAM; OS: Windows7/8.1/10.

How much storage does Steins;Gate need?

Steins;Gate needs about 13 GB of available storage.

What is the bottleneck for Steins;Gate?

On a typical modern PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RTX 3060, 16 GB RAM), the tightest component for Steins;Gate is the CPU.