LOCKDOWN Protocol
Fair · Multiplayer · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Reviews▼
- 86% of 20,124
- Genre rank
- Top 6% Multiplayer
Holding it back: Reviews
Watch this gameOne alert when a sale makes it a BANGER.
Price and sales
- Sales
- 12 on record
- Typical cut
- 40% off
- Steam low
- $5.99 July 2024
- Sale every
- 91d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 87 now
- Recent reviews
- 83% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 34% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 90% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 12 times in the 2 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 40 percent, about 13 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Against its own genre its score lands in the top 6 percent. It is pricier than 66 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 90 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Enemy On Board (free, scores 26) and Astro Colony ($19.99, scores 51).
More about LOCKDOWN Protocol
24 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written November 2025 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 798 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 227 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 61 percent of the 1,437 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $5.99 (40% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 4 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 29 days ago.
- 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
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, GTX 1050, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat), critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
LOCKDOWN Protocol scores 67/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2780980/lockdown-protocolReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base 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.