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.
Can your PC run it? →System requirements
Minimum requirements
| CPU | Core i3 of Sandy Bridge generation or better |
|---|---|
| GPU | Intel HD Graphics Series (It needs 1GB memory allocation) |
| VRAM | 1 GB |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 13 GB |
| OS | Windows7/8.1/10 |
| DirectX | 9 |
Recommended requirements
| CPU | Core i5 of Ivy Bridge generation or better |
|---|---|
| GPU | Geforce (VRAM 1GB or better) |
| VRAM | 1 GB |
| RAM | 4 GB |
| Storage | 13 GB |
| OS | Windows7/8.1/10 (64bit ver) |
| DirectX | 9 |
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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?
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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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.