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LOCKDOWN Protocol

Mirage Creative Lab · 2025-11-18

Steam

ActionCasualIndieStrategy

Modes: Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Jul 22, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A first person social deduction game, combining real time action and communication, playable up to 16 players. While most players will cooperate to complete objectives to ensure victory, a small portion of dissidents will try their best to stop them at all cost, without being caught.

306
playing now
86%
positive of 20k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
1,000,000–2,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
0
twitch viewers (latest)
73/100
IGDB user rating (16 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

306 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 17:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Healthy
  • · 306 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 1,957 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~245/week).
  • · Review velocity down 39% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 7% of 10,903 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-27

Estimated sales: 397k–893k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 19,851 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $3.49 at Desura (2015-05-19)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 6 of 12 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
2.2k2.2k20242026Week of 2024-07-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1,424 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 91 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 2,236 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 248 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1,218 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 186 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 2,031 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 203 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1,830 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 400 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 941 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 145 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 397 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 74 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 426 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 101 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 265 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 54 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 259 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 51 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 254 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 318 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 97 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 200 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 43 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 235 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 57 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 240 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 65 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 825 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 175 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 238 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 58 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 286 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 51 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 218 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 207 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 178 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 163 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 163 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 196 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 102 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 31 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

4771422026-08-06 21:00 — 322 players2026-08-07 05:00 — 304 players2026-08-07 13:00 — 324 players2026-08-07 21:00 — 325 players2026-08-08 05:00 — 382 players2026-08-08 13:00 — 310 players2026-08-08 21:00 — 368 players2026-08-09 05:00 — 392 players2026-08-09 13:00 — 347 players2026-08-09 21:00 — 454 players2026-08-10 05:00 — 331 players2026-08-10 14:00 — 303 players2026-08-10 22:00 — 302 players2026-08-11 06:00 — 261 players2026-08-11 14:00 — 263 players2026-08-12 21:00 — 315 players2026-08-14 05:00 — 262 players2026-08-15 13:00 — 244 players2026-08-16 21:00 — 382 players2026-08-18 04:00 — 212 players2026-08-19 12:00 — 147 players2026-08-20 19:00 — 367 players2026-08-22 03:00 — 401 players2026-08-23 10:00 — 211 players2026-08-24 18:00 — 367 players2026-08-26 02:00 — 369 players2026-08-27 10:00 — 202 players2026-08-28 17:00 — 358 players2026-08-30 01:00 — 477 players2026-08-30 17:00 — 306 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$3.492015-01-012026-07-162015-01-01 — best price $5.992015-03-15 — best price $5.592015-03-19 — best price $6.992015-04-05 — best price $4.192015-04-06 — best price $6.992015-05-19 — best price $3.492015-05-25 — best price $6.992024-07-22 — best price $5.992024-07-29 — best price $9.992024-11-27 — best price $5.992024-12-04 — best price $9.992024-12-19 — best price $5.992025-01-02 — best price $9.992025-01-16 — best price $6.992025-01-23 — best price $9.992025-03-13 — best price $5.992025-03-20 — best price $9.992025-06-27 — best price $5.992025-07-10 — best price $9.992025-09-29 — best price $5.992025-10-06 — best price $9.992025-11-18 — best price $7.992025-11-25 — best price $9.992025-12-18 — best price $6.992026-01-05 — best price $9.992026-03-19 — best price $6.992026-03-26 — best price $9.992026-06-25 — best price $5.992026-07-09 — best price $9.992026-07-13 — best price $5.992026-07-16 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Twitch viewers

43k02026-08-16 19:12 — 30,108 viewers2026-08-21 23:12 — 3,522 viewers2026-08-22 19:12 — 13,004 viewers2026-08-27 06:12 — 42,583 viewers2026-08-27 18:34 — 5 viewers2026-08-27 21:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 23:34 — 71 viewers2026-08-28 01:34 — 94 viewers2026-08-28 03:34 — 35 viewers2026-08-28 05:34 — 125 viewers2026-08-28 07:34 — 40 viewers2026-08-28 09:34 — 37 viewers2026-08-28 11:34 — 23 viewers2026-08-28 13:34 — 8 viewers2026-08-28 15:34 — 2 viewers2026-08-28 17:34 — 53 viewers2026-08-28 19:34 — 40 viewers2026-08-28 21:34 — 43 viewers2026-08-28 23:34 — 234 viewers2026-08-29 01:34 — 207 viewers2026-08-29 03:34 — 37 viewers2026-08-29 05:34 — 32 viewers2026-08-29 07:34 — 211 viewers2026-08-30 01:34 — 135 viewers2026-08-30 03:34 — 196 viewers2026-08-30 05:34 — 160 viewers2026-08-30 07:34 — 122 viewers2026-08-30 09:34 — 30 viewers2026-08-30 11:34 — 4 viewers2026-08-30 13:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 15:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-30 16:35 — 0 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPCo-opOnline Co-opSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing3 DLC

8 supported languages: English, French, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal

Player tags

FPSPvPSpaceActionCasualPuzzleSci-fiTeam-BasedMultiplayerConversation

Census log

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

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