Steins;Gate: Linear Bounded Phenogram

Steins;Gate: Linear Bounded Phenogram
English cover art
Developer5pb.
Publishers
ProducerTatsuya Matsubara
ArtistHuke
WriterNaotaka Hayashi
ComposerTakeshi Abo
SeriesScience Adventure
PlatformsPlayStation 3, Xbox 360, PlayStation Vita, iOS, PlayStation 4, Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch
Release
April 25, 2013
  • PlayStation 3, Xbox 360
    • JP: April 25, 2013
    PlayStation Vita
    • JP: November 28, 2013
    iOS
    • JP: August 19, 2014
    PlayStation 4
    • JP: September 20, 2018
    • WW: February 19, 2019
    Microsoft Windows
    • WW: February 19, 2019
    Nintendo Switch
    • JP: March 20, 2019
GenreVisual novel
ModeSingle-player

Steins;Gate: Linear Bounded Phenogram is a visual novel video game developed and published by 5pb. for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PlayStation Vita in 2013, and later ported to iOS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Microsoft Windows; the PlayStation 4 and Windows versions were released internationally by Spike Chunsoft in 2019. The game is part of the Science Adventure series, and a spin-off from the 2009 game Steins;Gate. It consists of ten side stories set in different realities, and follow different Steins;Gate characters. Unlike previous entries in the Steins;Gate series, the game is nearly devoid of interactive narrative.

The game was produced by Tatsuya Matsubara, with character design by Huke. As 5pb.'s Chiyomaru Shikura felt that the Steins;Gate world had been fully conceived, he allowed a group of other writers to create the game's story to bring new ideas to the series. Among these were Naotaka Hayashi, who had worked on previous Science Adventure titles and supervised the story, and Kotaro Uchikoshi, whose writing for the game was influenced by the anime series Code Geass.