Adventure
STEINS;GATE
Give it 15 hours
Gets good by 15h then rated almost like by veterans
Fully opens up by 20h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending at least 20% of players who started
Started playing 95% of owners
Steam reviews 97% positive of 27,315
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 9 reviews are negative (11%); after 20h it's 1 in 80 (1%).
- Fully opens up by hour 20.
- The opening is criticised less than in 88% of games we track.
- At least 20% of players who start reach the ending.
- Most players drop off before “Prologue of the Beginning and the End” (Prologue Clear): only 65% of starters get there.
- 95% of owners got the first achievement.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 27,418 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 296 reviews: 33.4h for positive, 21.6h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (94.7% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Prologue of the Beginning and the End Prologue Clear Most players quit here 65% −35
- Time Travel Paranoia Chapter 1 Clear 38% −27
- Interpreter Rendezvous Chapter 2 Clear 30% −8
- Butterfly Effect's Divergence Chapter 3 Clear 26% −4
- Chaos Theory Homeostasis Chapter 4 Clear 23% −3
- Dogma in Event Horizon Chapter 5 Clear 22% −1
- Metaphysics Necrosis Chapter 6 Clear 19% −3
- Made in Complex Chapter 7 Clear 19% −1
- Fractal Androgynous Chapter 8 Clear 18%
- Endless Apoptosis Chapter 9 Clear 18%
- Irreversible Reboot Reached Suzuha's ending. ≥20% +2
story milestone ending (most common ending) biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (42)
story milestone ending side
- The Choice of Steins Gate Started Steins;Gate. 100%
- Prologue of the Beginning and the End Prologue Clear 65%
- Memories of Another [Phone Trigger] Read an email. 54%
- Memories of the Self [Phone Trigger] Viewed email send history at least once. 49%
- Resonant Reaction [Phone Trigger] Replied to an email. 46%
- Time Travel Paranoia Chapter 1 Clear 38%
- Vision Projection [Phone Trigger] Changed phone wallpaper. 36%
- First Sound [Phone Trigger] Changed ringtone. 36%
- Interpreter Rendezvous Chapter 2 Clear 30%
- Butterfly Effect's Divergence Chapter 3 Clear 26%
- Identity of Complete Isolation [Phone Trigger] Ignored a phone call. 26%
- 25% CG Achievement Unlocked 25% of CGs. 25%
- Chaos Theory Homeostasis Chapter 4 Clear 23%
- Dogma in Event Horizon Chapter 5 Clear 22%
- 50% CG Achievement Unlocked 50% of CGs. 22%
- Irreversible Reboot Reached Suzuha's ending. 20%
- Message of Oblivion [Phone Trigger] Cleared someone's mail without reading it. 20%
- Metaphysics Necrosis Chapter 6 Clear 19%
- RaiNet's Mascot [Phone Trigger] Received 2 Upa wallpapers. 19%
- Made in Complex Chapter 7 Clear 19%
- Fractal Androgynous Chapter 8 Clear 18%
- 75% CG Achievement Unlocked 75% of CGs. 18%
- Endless Apoptosis Chapter 9 Clear 18%
- Genius Girl's Melancholy Made friends with Kurisu via email. 18%
- Isolated Jamais Vu Reached Faris's ending. 17%
- Link of Corruption and Rebirth Reached Luka's ending. 17%
- Open The Steins Gate Reached Steins Gate. 16%
- Stardust Sky Reached Mayuri's ending. 16%
- Warrior Girl's Pride [Phone Trigger] Received an unusual proposition from Suzuha. 15%
- Paradox Meltdown Reached Kurisu's ending. 14%
- Passions Best Forgotten [Phone Trigger] Learned why Mayuri started making costumes. 14%
- All Worldlines Complete Completed all endings. 13%
- Homerun-level Clumsiness Made 10 mistakes while attempting to set the PhoneWave (name subject to change)'s timer. 12%
- Cruel Sister Learned about Luka's relationship to his sister. 10%
- Cat's Tea Time [Phone Trigger] Offered tea by Faris. 9.2%
- Discontinuous Qualia [Phone Trigger] Asked by Kurisu to buy cup noodles twice in a row. 9.1%
- 100% CG Achievement Unlocked all CGs. 7.6%
- Princesses of Chaos [Phone Trigger] Received 3 wallpapers of characters from a chaotic head. 7.2%
- Songs of Chaos [Phone Trigger] Received 4 songs from a chaotic head. 6.4%
- Froggy Fad Demise [Phone Trigger] Received all Gero Froggy wallpapers. 6.3%
- Hero of RaiNet [Phone Trigger] Received all 13 RaiNet episode summaries. 5.8%
- Skyclad Observer Unlocked all Achievements. 5.5%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-18.