LOCKDOWN Protocol
Fair · Multiplayer · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Reviews
- 86% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 75% over the last 30 days against 86% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GTX 1050, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
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.
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The value story
July 2024 is where it bottomed out, at $5.99. It has been discounted 11 times in the 2 years tracked here, typically at 40 percent off, with about 13 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 13 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 4 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 92 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Feign ($4.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Starship Troopers: Extermination ($29.99, scores 49).
Players rate it 86 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 75 percent. Something recent has soured the room. 24 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2025 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 490 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 148 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 61 percent of the 1,428 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
Players
411 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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LOCKDOWN Protocol scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2780980/lockdown-protocolThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 15, price as of Sep 23.
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