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The Callisto Protocol™

Striking Distance Studios · KRAFTON, Inc. · 2022-12-01

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ActionAdventure

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Dec 02, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Dec 02, 2022 (PlayStation 4), Dec 02, 2022 (PlayStation 5), Dec 02, 2022 (Xbox Series X|S), Dec 02, 2022 (Xbox One)

Survive to escape the horrors of Callisto and uncover the dark secrets of Jupiter’s dead moon.

The Callisto Protocol™ is an Action and Adventure game released in 2022, priced at $59.99, with an owner estimate of 1,000,000 .. 2,000,000 and a review sentiment of Mixed (65% of 43700 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-09-27

32
playing now
65%
positive of 44k reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
1,000,000–2,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
65/100
critic score (7 outlets, IGDB)
69/100
IGDB user rating (155 ratings)
38
Nexus mods (91k downloads)
4.05★
PlayStation Store rating (22,959 ratings)
11h
to beat · rushed 9.5h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$59.99
steam price (US)

32 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 11:00 UTC (census sample)

The Callisto Protocol is a 2022 survival horror game developed by Striking Distance Studios and published by Krafton. It was released for PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Windows, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S on December 2, 2022. The game was directed by Dead Space series creator Glen Schofield and is considered a spiritual successor to the series.

Trailer

The Callisto Protocol™ trailer thumbnail

The Callisto Protocol - Official Launch Trailer | PS5 & PS4 Games

≈656 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Cooling
  • · 32 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 1,323 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~165/week).
  • · Review velocity down 51% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (20,144 reviews).
  • · Top 2% of 27,782 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-28

Estimated sales: 874k–2.0M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 43,700 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$59.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $8.99 at Steam (2025-03-13) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $59.99 · on sale 4 of 15 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
12k12k20222026Week of 2022-12-01: 11,720 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 8,424 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 1,276 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 490 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 407 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 184 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 284 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 166 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 141 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 67 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 231 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 93 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 200 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 79 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 605 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 246 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 168 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 69 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 287 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 107 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 169 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 110 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 666 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 183 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 545 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 139 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 509 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 186 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 855 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 312 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 598 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 204 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 507 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 167 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 263 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 94 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 172 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 70 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 220 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 103 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 223 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 94 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 142 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 52 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 173 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 78 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 135 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 74 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 154 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 68 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 140 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 61 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 77 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 33 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 236 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 62 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 122 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 38 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 79 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 35 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 525 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 258 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 323 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 118 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 211 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 124 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 255 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 140 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 187 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 94 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 123 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 64 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 163 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 87 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 130 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 54 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 74 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 89 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 36 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 61 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 139 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 71 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 172 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 76 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 82 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 23 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

112252026-09-15 12:00 — 45 players2026-09-16 20:00 — 60 players2026-09-18 03:00 — 33 players2026-09-19 11:00 — 78 players2026-09-20 18:00 — 112 players2026-09-22 02:00 — 50 players2026-09-23 10:00 — 47 players2026-09-24 17:00 — 86 players2026-09-26 01:00 — 32 players2026-09-27 08:00 — 69 players2026-09-28 16:00 — 69 players2026-09-29 23:00 — 31 players2026-10-01 07:00 — 37 players2026-10-02 14:00 — 47 players2026-10-03 22:00 — 72 players2026-10-05 06:00 — 35 players2026-10-06 13:00 — 55 players2026-10-07 21:00 — 48 players2026-10-09 04:00 — 25 players2026-10-10 12:00 — 49 players2026-10-11 20:00 — 74 players2026-10-13 03:00 — 40 players2026-10-14 11:00 — 32 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
2.2k52Dec 2022Aug 2026Dec 2022 — avg 2,229 · peak 15,556Feb 2023 — avg 295 · peak 722Apr 2023 — avg 98 · peak 203Jun 2023 — avg 112 · peak 645Aug 2023 — avg 96 · peak 227Oct 2023 — avg 113 · peak 416Dec 2023 — avg 223 · peak 596Feb 2024 — avg 394 · peak 1,644Apr 2024 — avg 356 · peak 955Jun 2024 — avg 177 · peak 415Aug 2024 — avg 149 · peak 496Oct 2024 — avg 118 · peak 317Dec 2024 — avg 105 · peak 239Feb 2025 — avg 74 · peak 159Apr 2025 — avg 79 · peak 179Jun 2025 — avg 254 · peak 1,024Aug 2025 — avg 134 · peak 616Oct 2025 — avg 107 · peak 302Dec 2025 — avg 110 · peak 326Feb 2026 — avg 69 · peak 165Apr 2026 — avg 54 · peak 133Jun 2026 — avg 104 · peak 398Aug 2026 — avg 64 · peak 139
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$59.99$0.002022-12-022026-10-092022-12-02 — best price $59.992023-01-19 — best price $59.992023-05-22 — best price $35.992023-06-29 — best price $29.992023-09-11 — best price $26.992023-10-10 — best price $59.992023-11-21 — best price $20.992023-12-13 — best price $20.992024-01-04 — best price $59.992024-01-29 — best price $17.992024-03-14 — best price $17.992024-04-08 — best price $17.992024-05-07 — best price $17.992024-05-21 — best price $59.992024-06-27 — best price $17.992024-08-15 — best price $14.992024-08-26 — best price $59.992024-10-03 — best price $17.992024-11-04 — best price $59.992024-12-12 — best price $17.992025-01-09 — best price $59.992025-03-13 — best price $8.992025-04-09 — best price $59.992025-08-25 — best price $8.992025-10-06 — best price $59.992025-12-24 — best price $0.002026-06-25 — best price $59.992026-08-28 — best price $59.992026-09-18 — best price $59.992026-10-09 — best price $59.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1.2k2582026-05-30 — 355 pageviews2026-06-03 — 367 pageviews2026-06-07 — 346 pageviews2026-06-11 — 301 pageviews2026-06-15 — 312 pageviews2026-06-19 — 388 pageviews2026-06-23 — 304 pageviews2026-06-27 — 288 pageviews2026-07-01 — 311 pageviews2026-07-05 — 335 pageviews2026-07-09 — 729 pageviews2026-07-13 — 310 pageviews2026-07-17 — 409 pageviews2026-07-21 — 355 pageviews2026-07-25 — 419 pageviews2026-07-29 — 328 pageviews2026-08-02 — 368 pageviews2026-08-06 — 283 pageviews2026-08-10 — 298 pageviews2026-08-14 — 282 pageviews2026-08-18 — 300 pageviews2026-08-22 — 317 pageviews2026-08-26 — 376 pageviews2026-08-30 — 365 pageviews2026-09-03 — 290 pageviews2026-09-07 — 337 pageviews2026-09-11 — 283 pageviews2026-09-15 — 338 pageviews2026-09-19 — 328 pageviews2026-09-23 — 322 pageviews2026-09-27 — 354 pageviews2026-10-01 — 267 pageviews2026-10-05 — 334 pageviews2026-10-08 — 273 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

46
achievements tracked
90.9%
earned "The Outer Way"
11.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing8 DLC

11 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America

Post-launch support: 8 DLC released, first 2022-12-02, latest 2023-12-20 (Steam store data)

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

3DPvESpaceActionHorrorLinearSci-fiShooterAdventureRealistic

Census log

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

Recent updates

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