13.10.2026, 17:00
NewsRock Paper Shotgun
"They thought Callisto was a complete failure": Glen Schofield blames publishers Krafton for The Callisto Protocol's crash landing
13.10.2026, 08:40
NewsEurogamer
In this narrative-driven, third-person survival horror game set 300 years in the future, the player will take on the role of Jacob Lee – a victim of fate thrown into Black Iron Prison, a maximum-security penitentiary located on Jupiter's moon, Callisto. When inmates begin to transform into monstrous creatures, the prison is thrown into chaos.
Set on Jupiter’s dead moon Callisto in the year 2320, The Callisto Protocol casts players as Jacob Lee, an inmate in Black Iron Prison. When a mysterious outbreak throws the moon into chaos, Jacob must face his darkest fears to defeat the bloodthirsty creatures that stalk him as he unravels the dark mysteries at the heart of the powerful United Jupiter Company.
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Dam, I admit I like the game. I had fun, it’s absolutely not as good as Dead Space but it’s got the same visceral gameplay that made it so satisfying. It’s also really fun to explore, but it’s definitely flawed. But I could overlook flaws, lack of gun and enemy variety, drowning in ammo that I didn’t really need because you can hit stuff to death pretty easy, every shortcoming. I was going to recommend it, I wanted to even! And then it hit me. They put the real ending in paid DLC…
Not worth the full price, especially when the base game doesn't even have the actual ending.
- I need to state this first before anything else. You get to a checkpoint, you upgrade your weapons, you go somewhere, you die, it brings you back to that checkpoint before you even did those upgrades, that feels like ♥♥♥♥. But even if that was the only problem, if you upgrade, manually save, and then load, it still didn't save those upgrades. Wtf? It's 2022 almost 2023, no games should have that type of problem. This is making you do the same things if you die over and over again. Another thing which is the dumbest thing ever, let's say you have 2 paths, A is story and B is loot : - You go B first you clear everything, you go A, you clear it, and then manually save, IF YOU RELOAD THAT SAVE, everything you did on A AND B side are UNDONE. WHY? So basically you're only saving your POSITION, and nothing else? What's the point of the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ save system then? - I'm a huge fan of the Dea
2 hours in I could not understand all the negative reviews. 4 hours in I was getting abit rage-quitty because I could not figure out the combat and it seems so many things were designed to just kill you even if you have the experience to realise beforehand whats gonna happen. 6 hours in I started to realise that people probably leave negative reviews because they remember how amazing Dead Space was and they got a bit disappointed with this not being Dead Space. 9 hours in I'm starting to like it for what it is, a good game with a few bugs that can be worked around. An interesting story I look forward to seeing in it's entirety and a novel combat mechanic. I am still convinced the negative reviews are because of how good Dead Space was, because this game does not deserve mixed reviews, it deserves at least mostly good or better. It is well made and has a few new ideas that may or may not
Much like Dead Space 3, this game makes me wish Steam had an inbetween to "yes" and "no" recommendations. Callisto Protocol isn't a "so bad dont play under any circumstances" game, but it's also not one I'd say "yes by all means it's a must play for horror fans", at least not at full price. For context for the review, I beat the game in a little over 11 hours, playing on Maximum Security (hard mode). My PC specs are a Ryzen 5 5600x CPU, RTX 3060TI GPU, 32GB of Ram, with the game installed on a m2 SSD and played at 1080p on DX11 with a mix of medium and high graphics. The Good The game looks and sounds gorgeous. Character models are up there with some of the greats of modern AAA. Sound design is pretty good as to be expected by these devs, Maybe not on par with others like the RE2 Remake but still fairly effective especially in a few parts where you're fighting enemies you can't see v
Graphically beautiful, very linear and kind of repetitive but I actually like this. As a grown man without a lot of time, I can't be bothered with all these open world games now. I just want to work my way through a beautiful looking game with an intriguing story line and this ticks those boxes minus maybe the good story line bit so far. The game unfortunately seems to suffer with a lot of stuttering when I max out the graphics settings even though my laptop can handle it. Overall would recommend when it's on offer for cheap and soon it's free on Epic Games store anyway!
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