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Survive to escape the horrors of Callisto and uncover the dark secrets of Jupiter’s dead moon.
The Callisto Protocol™ is a horror, sci-fi and survival horror game
developed by Striking Distance Studios
and published by KRAFTON and Inc..
Released on December 01st 2022 is available only on Windows
in 12 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America and Russian.
It has received 39,430 reviews of which 25,601 were positive and 13,829 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.4 out of 10. 😐
The game is currently priced at 58.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 4.67€ on Gamivo.
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- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10/11
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-8400 or AMD Ryzen™ 5 2600
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1060 or AMD Radeon™ RX 580
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 75 GB available space
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It's Not Dead Space Everyone had sky-high expectations when the first trailer for The Callisto Protocol dropped, and it was quickly labeled as the next Dead Space. Unfortunately, it failed to live up to the massive hype. At launch, the game was plagued with performance issues, stuttering, bugs, and a broken save system. Combined with heavy criticism of the melee combat and a weak story, it faced a wave of negativity. Because of this, I decided to wait. Picking it up on sale about two years later turned out to be the right move. After tons of patches, most of the technical issues were fixed. So, is the game actually good now? Well, it’s a mixed bag. Where the protocol gets it right: • Next-Gen Graphics: The visuals are easily the standout feature of the entire experience. It looks absolutely incredible with everything maxed out. From the dimly lit, terrifying corridors to the sweat dripping off Jacob Lee’s head, the level of detail here is amazing. They really outdid themselves in the graphics department. • Terrific Sound Design & Audio: The audio work is right up there with the graphics. The voice acting, the terrifying monster noises, the unsettling background ambience, and the heavy punch of the weapons are all of the highest quality, creating a great atmosphere. • Awesome Gore: As a horror enthusiast who loves high-quality gore, this game completely delivers. The developers clearly spent a massive amount of time on this system. Jacob can die in some of the most brutal, grotesque, and creatively disturbing ways imaginable. Poor Jacob. • The Combat is Fun: This might be controversial since so many people hated the gameplay, but I actually liked the combat system. It is heavily melee-focused and lacks depth, but once you learn the rhythm of dodging, perfect dodges, and counters, it gets a really nice flow. Combining the melee combos with the firearms made the fights intense and provided a great survival experience, in my honest opinion. Where the protocol fails: • Very Linear & Scripted: The game is incredibly linear with very little room for exploration. You just follow the main path, and while there are a few side rooms for collectibles and upgrades, they are never far away. A lot of the encounters are heavily scripted to feel cinematic, which completely kills the tension on repeat playthroughs. • Lack of Variation: Halfway through the game, you really start to notice the lack of enemy types. The game just throws the exact same enemies at you over and over again, which gets boring. The same goes for the weapons, which mostly serve as an extension to your melee, and the bosses, which feel incredibly spongy and repetitive. • Not That Scary: As a horror veteran who has been hardened by decades of scary movies and games, this game never managed to actually scare me. It has some tense moments and a few jump scares, but it never crawls under your skin—at least not for me. • Generic Story: The story is your standard, highly predictable "sci-fi horror in space" trope. It’s not strictly terrible, but it is very generic and bland. It’s a shame, because a compelling story could have really elevated the experience. • Zero Replay Value: Once you finish the campaign, you have seen everything this game has to offer. I had to play through it multiple times to hunt down all the achievements, and it became an absolute chore. I highly recommend sticking to just one playthrough. • Scummy DLC Practices: Selling the actual "true ending" of the story behind a DLC paywall is a terrible direction for the industry. To make matters worse, they even locked a bunch of the unique death animations behind paid bundles, which just feels incredibly greedy. The final verdict: At full price, The Callisto Protocol is definitely not worth it. However, if you pick it up on a sale like I did, the experience is decent now that the technical launch disasters and the broken save system have been patched. If you love sci-fi space horror and don't mind a linear, melee-heavy ride with zero replayability, it is worth checking out. It’s far from the next Dead Space, but it still is as close as you will get.
I'm so glad that I sent all the negative reviews about the game to hell, of which there were just a ton. And from serious studios, whose opinions I could listen to, and from typical haters who feel bad about everything, and from players with reviews like "I played for 30 minutes, the game is bad, I give one star." Half of the negative reviews are based on "Poor optimization" and the other half on "This is not Dead Space". Oh, well, you know how serious these arguments are to vilify the game. Okay, let's take a closer look at the aspects of the game.: PLOT: The game takes place in the Black Tin prison, where it is not clear why the main character Jacob, an ordinary courier who carries goods from point A to point B. After a while, a catastrophe occurs in the prison, people turn into incomprehensible creatures who want only one thing - to kill people. During the game, we got answers to most of the questions that the game throws at us at the very beginning.: What kind of creatures are these? Why did they break out? Who is to blame? What should I do next? During the game, we collect the history of the prison bit by bit by searching for recordings of dictaphones of former correctional officers. If you don't do this, the picture may not seem complete, and closer to the finale, they dump the whole story on us and send us to a meeting with the final boss. In my opinion, the narrative lacked some balance, because most of the plot was given to us in the last hour of the game, and before that, the first 9 (I completed the game in 10 hours) the presentation was ragged. The plot is good, solid, unpredictable, thoughtful and slightly absurd. The graphics are amazing. The emotions of the main characters, the painted drops of sweat that roll down their faces, the world around them and attention to detail. And what a view of space opens up to us, beauty. As far as I know, the optimization has now been fixed with patches, perhaps you shouldn't mess up the game so much because it came out raw in terms of hardware operation. COMBAT SYSTEM: At the disposal of the main character: a crowbar (after replacing it with a police baton), a pistol of 2 types, a shotgun of 2 types, a semi-automatic machine, a kinetic glove. Each type of weapon can be upgraded for local currency, improving its characteristics and adding new features to the 3D printer. At the same time, at the beginning of the game we only have a crowbar, we will discover everything else as we progress. Any duel, with any opponent, is like a dance: left, right, left, right. If you do it twice to the left, you'll get hit in the head. And if it's not so difficult in a duel with one opponent, then when there are already two of them, problems begin. On the one hand, everything is very simple, but opponents sometimes hit twice and then you have a window for a counter attack, and sometimes three, and sometimes one. It wasn't uncommon for me to die in a one-on-one duel. Nobody forbids using firearms, but there are very few cartridges, and you always save them for more difficult moments. DIFFICULTY LEVEL: passed the "maximum protection level". And yes, it's real hardcore. The world around us is not friendly at all. Everything wants to kill you, there aren't enough ammo for weapons, there are even fewer first-aid kits, the cat cried for the local currency (for the full passage I pumped only the pistol to the maximum, the rest by a couple of points). You die with two or three blows, and given the low number of first-aid kits, you always have to act very slowly, slowly making your way through the corridors, turning around at every noise, and even in a 1-on-1 duel, you have to think of ways to retreat. There are 2 bosses in the game, which is very frustrating. In this case, the first boss repeats 4 times. The boss battles weren't difficult, partly because I knew when the enemy would appear and saved shotgun shells for him. It would be very difficult to kill him with a club. The most difficult moment in the game is when I reached one of the locations, with 2 rounds and 15% health, and there was just a moment where I was facing 6 mobs that become invisible. And every time I died, I started with a checkpoint where I have 15% health and 2 bullets. I closed the final boss with 7-8 kills, which is generally fast enough considering the difficulty level. THE ATMOSPHERE AND THE GENRE ITSELF: Now, actually, about why I liked this game. Horror gripped me from the very first minutes. I was afraid to move around the location, danger could be waiting for me around every corner. The grinding of iron, some kind of munching, the sounds of a swarm of insects, roars, screams, light music, the play of shadows, rustles, some movements that you notice out of the corner of your eye, turn around - and there's nothing. Stunning graphics - all this creates an indescribable atmosphere of hopelessness, into which our hero was dragged. You worry about him and you're scared with Jacob. There is no place in the game where I can feel safe, the enemy can fall right on my head anywhere. Because of this, moving around the world was slow, unhurried, and very careful. I don't know if it would be so intense if I played at the easiest level, maybe not. Therefore, I recommend only the "maximum security level" to everyone. BOTTOM LINE: The game is just great for its genre, a real horror with excellent graphics. And what are the finishing scenes? When you're literally being torn apart. I don't understand the criticism and constant comparison with dead space. I went through Dead Space, I liked the game, but I went through Calisto with no less pleasure, and as for me, the game is definitely not worse. It's a pity that there won't be a sequel, because the game is a real financial failure, I think partly because of a lot of negative reviews, and many players didn't want to draw their own conclusions, but simply followed the general opinion. It's a pity that such games won't get a sequel. I give the game a solid five and recommend it to everyone.
I don’t hate The Callisto Protocol! Going off the reviews, I expected a complete disaster, and what I got instead was a sporadically enjoyable gorefest that…has some terrible stuff in it--I won’t pull your leg. The melee combat is awful, but the gunplay is decently entertaining, and the atmosphere is superb. So the question of whether or not I’d recommend the game to you depends entirely on your tolerance level. If you greatly value atmosphere and immersion and can put up with the game’s flaws, then I’d say pick it up on a deep sale and blast through it in a couple of evenings. However, if you demand better than tolerable gameplay and want a more interesting story, allow me to direct your attention to The Evil Within series….or just go play the Dead Space series again. Watch the full review here: https://youtu.be/nqvbtOBUdO0
The Callisto Protocol looks amazing and has a really cool, creepy story that pulls you in. But the combat gets old fast—it’s pretty repetitive and doesn’t really evolve much. The game definitely has potential, but it’s super short and ends on a cliffhanger, which is a bit of a letdown. It’s a solid experience, just not as deep or satisfying as it could’ve been.
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The Callisto Protocol™ is currently priced at 58.99€ on Steam.
No, The Callisto Protocol™ is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 58.99€ on Steam.
Yes, The Callisto Protocol™ received 25,601 positive votes out of a total of 39,430 achieving a rating of 6.43.
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The Callisto Protocol™ was developed by Striking Distance Studios and published by KRAFTON and Inc..
Yes, The Callisto Protocol™ is playable and fully supported on Windows.
No, The Callisto Protocol™ is not playable on MacOS.
No, The Callisto Protocol™ is not playable on Linux.
The Callisto Protocol™ is a single-player game.
Yes, there are 8 DLCs available for The Callisto Protocol™. Explore additional content available for The Callisto Protocol™ on Steam.
No, The Callisto Protocol™ does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, The Callisto Protocol™ does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, The Callisto Protocol™ is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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