STEINS;GATE RE:BOOT Prologue Video Runs Over 20 Minutes
The prologue video is the first extended look at how the E-mote animation tool and fully re-recorded voices change the presentation of a 17-year-old visual novel, giving returning players a concrete sense of what the reboot refreshes beyond the script.
Key Facts
- MAGES. released a prologue video for STEINS;GATE RE:BOOT on July 28, 2026, timed to Steins;Gate Day.
- The prologue video runs over 20 minutes and shows the story's major turn, including scenes at Radio Kaikan and Dr. Nakabachi's press conference.
- STEINS;GATE RE:BOOT launches August 20, 2026 for Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo Switch, PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, and Steam.
- The game uses the E-mote animation tool to make character sprites and expressions move in sync with the story.
- Event stills are roughly double and background graphics about 1.2 times the Xbox 360 version's count, with all character designs redrawn by huke.
Reporting from 1 source: Denfaminicogamer.
MAGES. released a prologue video for STEINS;GATE RE:BOOT on July 28, timed to Steins;Gate Day. The video is a gameplay sequence titled "Prologue of Beginning and End," showing the story's major turn: Rintaro Okabe gives Mayuri Shiina a Metal Upa at Radio Kaikan, attends Dr. Nakabachi's press conference on the successful time machine invention, and has a conversation with Kurisu Makise. The footage runs over 20 minutes and demonstrates the game's use of the E-mote animation tool, which makes character sprites and expressions move in sync with the story. STEINS;GATE RE:BOOT is a reboot of the 2009 adventure game, based on the STEINS;GATE ELITE scenario but adjusted for a brisker, more readable pace. Graphics are refined, voices are re-recorded, and nearly all materials, including character designs and BGM, are renewed, with new story elements added. The game launches August 20 for Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo Switch, PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, and Steam.
- BGM is fully remade by series composer Takeshi Abo, and all in-game voices are re-recorded.
- Character designs, backgrounds, and event stills are redrawn from the line art by character designer huke. Event stills roughly double in count versus the Xbox 360 version, and background graphics increase by about 1.2 times.
- The reboot adds new world lines and endings on top of the STEINS;GATE ELITE base scenario.
- A free "Studio Mini Live & Staff Talk" streams on the MAGES.GAME CHANNEL YouTube on August 15 at 19:00. Singer Kanako Ito performs STEINS;GATE songs live, and Haruko Momoi, who voices Faris Nyannyan, hosts a staff talk with producer Tatsuya Matsubara, scenario writer Naotaka Hayashi, and art director Fumihiro Kitahara.
- An "Akiba Jack" campaign runs August 17 to September 6 across 30 Akihabara stores. Shops display nine kinds of nobori flags using the package illustration and eight lab members, and purchases of 700 yen or more with the phrase "Steins;Gate" earn one of eight random limited postcards while stock lasts.
- PS4 and Xbox Series X|S versions are download-only. Xbox Series X|S and Steam releases are handled by Spike Chunsoft.
- The limited edition includes a special outer box with huke-drawn art, a 36-page A5 art book, a soundtrack DVD-ROM with 35 remade tracks plus liner notes by Abo, and a Blu-ray and DVD of the October 27, 2024 "STEINS;GATE 15th LIVE - ONE WORLD -" event.
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