Watch order

Zarutaku said:
teasedere

Slooping said:
Watch the original show in it's entirety, dw about shit like this:

Remember that the original vn was written as a self contained story, therefore, it works best as a self contained story.
Dont force yourself to watch the spin offs, aside from the original show and vn, the spin off works are not nearly as good.

Slooping said:
Why do you watch entertainment? To enjoy the abstraction provided.
Steins Gate 0 ruins Steins gate by destroying the characters, adding unnecessary fan service, and by removing a bunch of the logic.
If you want the best enjoyment for a series, it is better to ignore any addons that will ruin the experience, irrespective of any authors deciding whether it is canon or not.

Either way,

Release order is more valid than chronological, it is closer to what the authors originally intended. That is why you shouldn't bother with gimmicky stuff like this, if anything, it will ruin part of the enjoyment for both of the works.
You aren't obligated to watch something if it is considered canon.

Piromysl said:
After episode 23 you watch SG0 spinoff and then continue.

Sharingan123412 said:
Alright, so there's a couple of things here. Each and every last one of the people here recommending the "chronological" order have absolutely no idea what they're talking about. This is a series with hundreds upon hundreds of hours' worth of content in several different mediums. The only ones who would ever dare suggest such a bafflingly silly order are anime onlies that lack the context of the full series. It's technically not even chronological because the entirety of Steins;Gate 0 happens before the original Steins;Gate even begins.

I'll start off by giving you some context as to what Steins;Gate actually is. In the first place, Steins;Gate is not supposed to be a standalone story. It is the second part of a much larger storyline known as the Science Adventure series or otherwise SciADV for short. The anime adaptations of the series just cut all their connections to make it seem like they have nothing to do with one another — as if they're nothing more than separate standalone stories that just happen to take place in the same universe. But in reality, they're really more like the different parts of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. They all have their own unique casts, settings, and central sci-fi focuses, but they build upon one another to make a wider overarching series narrative. And you often have pieces of foreshadowing spanning several entries and also recurring sci-fi concepts, plot points, and characters.

In visual novel form, the order to play the series in is as follows: Chaos;Head NoAH -> Steins;Gate -> Chaos;Head LCC -> Robotics;Notes Elite -> Chaos;Child -> Steins;Gate 0 -> Chaos;Child LCC -> Occultic;Nine -> Robotics;Notes DaSH -> Anonymous;Code. These are the six mainline games and the four most relevant side entries for the series. This series does have a tad bit of leeway for moving a few things around. But by and large, the best way to go through the series in visual novel form is in release order.

As I mentioned earlier, the anime adaptations for the series try making their respective stories as standalone as possible. And in the first place, almost all of their adaptations are horrendously rushed, with Steins;Gate being the notable exception, having received a whopping 24 episodes despite being one of the shortest entries in the series. So in anime form, I would just stick with the Steins;Gate sub-series and maybe Occultic;Nine if it interests you. For the Steins;Gate sub-series, the definitive way to consume the series is also in release order: all of Steins;Gate -> Egoistic Poriomania OVA -> Load Region of Déjà Vu -> Steins;Gate episode 23B -> all of Steins;Gate 0. You can potentially move Egoistic Poriomania and Load Region of Déjà Vu for after Steins;Gate 0 if you really want to.

But I do want to mention that there is a bit of a complication with regards to the Steins;Gate 0 anime. The Steins;Gate 0 visual novel is largely an adaptation of three different pieces of pre-existing Steins;Gate side material (Arc-Light of the Point at Infinity, The Epigraph Trilogy, and Annularly Chained Ouroboros). And Steins;Gate 0's anime is not a conventional adaptation of the Steins;Gate 0 visual novel, but rather a sequel to or final route for it. It still presents itself in a way that anime onlies can follow along just fine with the context of episode 23B. But it is nonetheless something that's already very hard to grasp the implications of in the absence of the context of the Steins;Gate 0 visual novel and its source side material. For somebody to go through the entirety of Steins;Gate 0 without even so much as finishing the original Steins;Gate, you're just missing way too much context.

In the first place, Steins;Gate 0 is a side entry in the Science Adventure series, not its own mainline entry. And it's something you are supposed to go through with the full context of the ending of the original story. For you to go through the Steins;Gate 0 anime without the context for how the original series ends, you're not going to be understanding the relevance of what you're watching in Steins;Gate 0 as you're watching it. Even after going back to finish the original Steins;Gate, you still won't fully comprehend the significance of a lot that went down earlier. And I've seen many of the people who go through the story in its so-called "chronological order" drop the series altogether in the middle of Steins;Gate 0 out of confusion, never to finish either one of the two series. Avoid the "chronological" order at all costs. Go through the story in release order.