MAGES. has announced that Steins;Gate Re:Boot, full remake of the 2009 visual novel, will launch in Japan on August 20, 2026, across PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo Switch, and PC via Steam. The announcement arrived today, May 7, 2026, alongside a new opening movie. Text is offered in English, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese. Japanese is the only voiced audio. Western publisher Spike Chunsoft has previously confirmed a 2026 release in North America and Europe but has not yet announced a date for the western version.
The original game follows Rintaro Okabe, head of a small Akihabara research lab, whose group inadvertently builds a device that transmits text messages into the past. Their discovery becomes the focus of a larger conflict over time travel. The Phone Trigger system, the branching mechanic in which messages handled through Okabe’s phone determine the ending the player reaches, returns in Re:Boot.
The opening movie keeps Kanako Itou’s “Skyclad Observer,” the song that opened the 2009 release, but now includes fully redrawn animations. MAGES. has highlighted four areas of focus for the remake. The first concerns pacing and flow of the writing itself, with the script restructured along the lines of the more compact 2018 release Steins;Gate Elite. The full voice cast has recorded their lines again, and series composer Takeshi Abo has provided new arrangements of the soundtrack. All visual assets have been redrawn, including character sprites, backgrounds, and event illustrations. According to MAGES., Re:Boot contains roughly twice as many event stills as the 2009 release and around 1.2 times as many background images. Character sprites are animated through the E-mote system, the same toolset MAGES. used to handle character motion in Anonymous;Code.
Footage released today shows characters with added animations, including small body movements, eye blinks, lip syncing, and ambient idle motion. Backgrounds were reconstructed from photographic references of Akihabara as it stood in 2010, and the level of detail in the released screenshots is high enough that some images could be mistaken for actual photographs. A separate video demonstrating the game’s E-mote character animations has also been released.
The Japanese release includes Standard (7,480 yen, 8,580 yen on Switch 2), Limited (12,980 yen, 14,080 yen on Switch 2), and Ultra Limited (34,980 yen, 36,080 yen on Switch 2) physical editions, with Switch 2 copies shipping as full game cards.
The Limited Edition packages the game with a huke-illustrated outer box, the Visual Collection art book, a soundtrack DVD-ROM, and a DVD and Blu-ray of the Steins;Gate 15th LIVE -ONE WORLD- event.
The Ultra Limited Edition adds a huke-illustrated framed illustration and the Steins;Gate All Complete Soundtrack DVD-ROM, which covers the music from every Steins;Gate game across seven titles.
Digital editions are available on PlayStation 5, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch 2, Nintendo Switch, and PC, with a Standard release at 6,380 yen and a Digital Deluxe at 11,880 yen that adds a digital art book, digital soundtrack, and ONE WORLD event video.
Steins;Gate Re:Boot is available to wishlist now on Steam.