Is Steins;Gate good to watch with a friend?
Easy to drop in. Steins;Gate is a TV series from Spring 2011 by White Fox Co., Ltd.: 24 episodes, about 9.6 hours in total, finished, 9/10 across the listing sites.
Watching it together: easy to drop in. Comedy or action in a short run: you can start tonight without a plan, and a missed episode does not ruin it. about 9.6 hours for the run, 12 evenings at two a night. Rule: episodic, slice-of-life, or comedy/action ≤ 26 episodes → easy to drop in.
This verdict comes from rules over the title's format, length and tags, not from a review — the rule that fired is named above.
The facts
- Type
- TV series
- Episodes
- 24
- Episode length
- 24 min
- Total time
- about 9.6 hours — a weekend
- First aired
- Spring 2011
- Status
- Finished
- Studio
- White Fox Co., Ltd.
- Score
- 9/10 across the listing sites
- Tags
- adventure, comedy, cyberpunk, detective, drama, dystopian, gaming, mystery, post-apocalyptic, psychological, romance, sci-fi, seinen, supernatural, thriller, time travel, tragedy, violence, war
Data from anime-offline-database (ODbL) as of 2026-07-04; the score is the median of the scores the anime listing sites give it, on a 1–10 scale.
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Quick answers
- How long does it take to watch all of Steins;Gate?
- About 9.6 hours for all 24 episodes at 24 min each — a weekend; at two episodes a night that is 12 evenings.
- How many episodes does Steins;Gate have?
- 24 episodes of 24 min.
- Is Steins;Gate finished?
- Yes, Steins;Gate is finished (24 episodes), so you can watch the whole thing at your own pace.
- Is Steins;Gate good for a group?
- Yes. Steins;Gate is tagged comedy, the tags that survive a room full of people talking over the screen.
- Where is Steins;Gate listed?
- Steins;Gate is on AniList (id 9253) and MyAnimeList (id 9253); Queue Up keys it by its AniList id and shows it when it is on either of your lists.
Queue Up is a free tool: enter two AniList usernames and it ranks the anime you both want to watch, rolls one for tonight, runs a bracket to settle it and finds new anime that fit both of you. List data from AniList; title data: anime-offline-database (ODbL), dataset of 2026-07-04; page updated 2026-07-04. Not affiliated with AniList or MyAnimeList. Queue Up is a Somebody Decide program. How it works · Legal & privacy · All lists