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ROBOTICS;NOTES ELITE cover art

ROBOTICS;NOTES ELITE

MAGES. Inc. · Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd. · 2020-10-13

SteamPlayStation Store

Adventure

Modes: Single player

Releases: Oct 16, 2020 (Nintendo Switch), Oct 13, 2020 (PlayStation 4), Oct 13, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jun 26, 2014 (PlayStation Vita)

Thanks to the rising popularity of the PhoneDroid—a device which features augmented reality (A.R.)—the age of advanced technology has finally reached Tanegashima. On that island, Central Tanegashima High's "Robot Research Club" is about to have their club disbanded.

15
playing now
91%
positive of 711 reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
81/100
IGDB user rating (8 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$34.99
steam price (US)

15 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 11:00 UTC (census sample)

Robotics;Notes is a visual novel video game developed by 5pb. It is the third main game in the Science Adventure series, following Chaos;Head and Steins;Gate, and is described by the developers as an "Augmented Science Adventure". The game was originally released by 5pb. in Japan on the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in 2012; the enhanced version Robotics;Notes Elite was released for PlayStation Vita in 2014, and for Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4 in 2019. An English version of Robotics;Notes Elite was released by Spike Chunsoft in 2020 for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.

Health check

Insufficient data
  • · Not enough review history collected yet to judge health.
  • · Top 35% of 11,312 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 14k–32k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 711 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

lowest across shops (ITAD)$34.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $6.99 at Steam (2024-10-15)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $34.99 · on sale 18 of 27 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

2642026-08-12 03:00 — 16 players2026-08-12 19:00 — 16 players2026-08-13 11:00 — 15 players2026-08-14 03:00 — 11 players2026-08-14 19:00 — 12 players2026-08-15 10:00 — 14 players2026-08-16 03:00 — 14 players2026-08-16 18:00 — 16 players2026-08-17 10:00 — 9 players2026-08-18 02:00 — 9 players2026-08-18 18:00 — 15 players2026-08-19 10:00 — 13 players2026-08-20 01:00 — 8 players2026-08-20 17:00 — 17 players2026-08-21 09:00 — 9 players2026-08-22 01:00 — 22 players2026-08-22 16:00 — 26 players2026-08-23 08:00 — 22 players2026-08-24 00:00 — 20 players2026-08-24 16:00 — 14 players2026-08-25 08:00 — 12 players2026-08-26 00:00 — 14 players2026-08-26 16:00 — 19 players2026-08-27 08:00 — 4 players2026-08-28 00:00 — 13 players2026-08-28 16:00 — 21 players2026-08-29 04:00 — 14 players2026-08-29 19:00 — 15 players2026-08-30 11:00 — 15 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$34.99$6.992020-10-142026-08-192020-10-14 — best price $31.492021-01-05 — best price $34.992021-06-24 — best price $17.492021-10-04 — best price $34.992021-12-22 — best price $13.992022-02-03 — best price $34.992022-09-15 — best price $13.992022-11-29 — best price $34.992023-02-16 — best price $13.992023-03-23 — best price $34.992023-06-30 — best price $13.992023-08-14 — best price $34.992023-12-21 — best price $13.992024-03-21 — best price $34.992024-06-27 — best price $13.992024-10-28 — best price $34.992024-12-19 — best price $8.742025-01-30 — best price $34.992025-03-13 — best price $8.742025-05-09 — best price $34.992025-06-27 — best price $8.742025-08-03 — best price $34.992025-10-27 — best price $10.492026-01-05 — best price $34.992026-03-09 — best price $6.992026-05-05 — best price $34.992026-06-25 — best price $10.492026-08-06 — best price $6.992026-08-09 — best price $6.992026-08-12 — best price $6.992026-08-19 — best price $34.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

139522026-05-31 — 95 pageviews2026-06-03 — 99 pageviews2026-06-06 — 110 pageviews2026-06-09 — 110 pageviews2026-06-12 — 84 pageviews2026-06-15 — 77 pageviews2026-06-18 — 67 pageviews2026-06-21 — 75 pageviews2026-06-24 — 83 pageviews2026-06-27 — 120 pageviews2026-06-30 — 52 pageviews2026-07-03 — 64 pageviews2026-07-06 — 92 pageviews2026-07-09 — 82 pageviews2026-07-12 — 83 pageviews2026-07-15 — 69 pageviews2026-07-18 — 66 pageviews2026-07-21 — 77 pageviews2026-07-24 — 79 pageviews2026-07-27 — 86 pageviews2026-07-30 — 85 pageviews2026-08-02 — 61 pageviews2026-08-05 — 109 pageviews2026-08-08 — 111 pageviews2026-08-11 — 124 pageviews2026-08-14 — 92 pageviews2026-08-17 — 86 pageviews2026-08-20 — 108 pageviews2026-08-23 — 119 pageviews2026-08-26 — 95 pageviews2026-08-28 — 113 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS Vita (PlayStation)95680%50
Steam (Steam)88932%50
PS4 (PlayStation)78562%50
PS Vita (PlayStation)51282%50
PS4 (PlayStation)36382%50
Switch (Nintendo)390%0
Switch (Nintendo)100%0
Switch (Nintendo)0—0
PS Vita (PlayStation)0—50

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

AnimeMechsRobotsSci-fiMysteryScienceAdventureConspiracyStory RichAtmospheric

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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