Steins;Gate is a visual novel in an adventure style and anime style. You follow a ragtag group of tech-savvy young students as they discover ways to change the past through mail using a modified microwave oven. Their experiments to see how far they can take their discovery begin to spiral out of control as they become entangled in a conspiracy surrounding SERN, the organization behind the Large Hadron Collider, and John Titor, who claims to be from a dystopian future. . Interaction with the game occurs through the phone's trigger system, where the player can receive calls and text messages and decide whether to answer them or not, changing the outcome of the game's story.