The Callisto Protocol™
Skip · Shooter · 2022
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 10, under the fair line, at $59.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $5.94/hr
- Reviews▼
- 65% of 43,876
- Genre rank
- Top 84% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 10.1h
- To 100%
- 15.6h 1.5x the story
- Finish
- 3% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 46
Price and sales
- Sales
- 23 on record
- Typical cut
- 70% off
- Steam low
- $8.99 March 2025
- Sale every
- 45d last June 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 39 now
- Recent reviews
- 65% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 1% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 20% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
91% start to 3% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $8.99. That was March 2025. It has been discounted 23 times in the 4 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 70 percent, about 6 weeks apart.
It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 80 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Dead Space ($59.99, scores 53) and Dead Space™ 2 ($19.99, scores 69) both outscore it.
More about The Callisto Protocol™
Steam's global achievement data puts about 3 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 10.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2025 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 39 percent of the 6,269 reviews written there were positive, against 65 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic); the score docks it lightly for that.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 10.1 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 5 of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
--- A shockingly mediocre Dead Space clone. Very clunky combat. Badly written story that goes nowhere. +++ Great graphics.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
TF, the saves just Fckn disspear for no reason!!! Early 2000, I would understand but for 2026 how do we still have this type of problem??? I'm not gonna replay this stupid game
I liked it. Sad I waited so long to play just because of all the negativity around it. It has strong atmosphere. The horror vibes are dripping like the blood off the walls. Graphics are some of the best I've seen in a game, paired with a good Oled (turn the blacks all the way down and brightness slightly up) and maxed out O my you get sucked in. Story is serviceable, comparing it something like dead space it serves...
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About the game
Survive to escape the horrors of Callisto and uncover the dark secrets of Jupiter’s dead moon.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 or AMD Radeon RX 580, 75 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Callisto Protocol™ scores 10/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1544020/the-callisto-protocolReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 8, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.