Games like The Callisto Protocol™
If The Callisto Protocol™ is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dead Space, Dead Space™ 2 and Dead Space (2008) — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its cinematic atmosphere enhances immersion, atmospheric and dark. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Set on Jupiter's dead moon, this third-person survival horror action-adventure tasks players with fighting through hostile environments to escape. The 2022 release emphasizes close-quarters combat where dodge-based defense and environmental exploitation become essential survival tools, with a gravity restraint projector proving particularly effective against enemies. Limited inventory management forces careful decision-making, and scripted sequences punctuate the longer campaign. Reviewers highlight the cinematic atmosphere that enhances immersion while noting the high difficulty demands patience and focus, though boss encounters are described as punishing yet fair. The Callisto Protocol runs verified on Steam Deck at $59.99, holding a 66% positive rating from over 16,000 Steam reviews.
About The Callisto Protocol™: Survive to escape the horrors of Callisto and uncover the dark secrets of Jupiter’s dead moon.
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Dead Space
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Top pick for The Callisto Protocol™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Callisto Protocol™.
The sci-fi survival-horror classic returns, completely rebuilt to offer an even more immersive experience — including visual, audio, and gameplay improvements — while staying faithful to the original game’s thrilling vision.
Dead Space™ 2
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Callisto Protocol™.
Second-strongest match for The Callisto Protocol™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Callisto Protocol™.
Three years after the Necromorph infestation aboard the USS Ishimura, Isaac Clarke awakens from a coma, confused, disoriented, and on a space station called The Sprawl. Explore this world and its zero-g environments to discover the truth about the Unitology and its role in the Necromorph epidemic.
Dead Space (2008)
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Callisto Protocol™.
Third-strongest match for The Callisto Protocol™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Callisto Protocol™.
You are Isaac Clarke, an engineer on the spacecraft USG Ishimura. You're not a warrior. You're not a soldier. You are, however, the last line of defense for the remaining living crew.
Colony - Arena Online
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Ranked #4 for The Callisto Protocol™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Callisto Protocol™.
Fight against rebel robots together with your friends and save planets from invasion....
SPIRITUS 2
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Ranked #5 for The Callisto Protocol™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Callisto Protocol™.
The survival horror concludes in part two of SPIRITUS, set in a post-apocalyptic city and the depths of pure evil. Survive in classic 90's gaming tropes augmented with modern HD graphics.
Cyanide Space Girls
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Ranked #6 for The Callisto Protocol™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Callisto Protocol™.
Join four elite C.A.T. pilots in explosive 4-player co-op action! Fly through procedurally generated galaxies, unlock devastating weapons, combos, and upgrades, and fight to rid the cosmos of an ancient alien scourge!
Lurking Danger
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Ranked #7 for The Callisto Protocol™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Callisto Protocol™.
Lurking Danger is a survival horror where Elena and Regina, two diner waitresses, uncover a dark secret. Reality twists into a nightmare as they face terrifying creatures. Play solo or in split-screen co-op, solve puzzles, and fight for survival in a haunting atmosphere.
Voidling Bound
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Ranked #8 for The Callisto Protocol™ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with The Callisto Protocol™.
Hatch, evolve, and upgrade powerful space creatures in this action-packed sci-fi 3rd person shooter that reinvents the monster taming genre!
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Resident Evil
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Callisto Protocol™.
Reviewers of The Callisto Protocol™ cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with The Callisto Protocol™.
The game that defined the survival-horror genre is back! Check out the remastered HD version of Resident Evil.
The Evil Within
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Reviewers of The Callisto Protocol™ cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Callisto Protocol™.
Developed by Shinji Mikami -- creator of the seminal Resident Evil series -- and the talented team at Tango Gameworks, The Evil Within embodies the meaning of pure survival horror. Highly-crafted environments, horrifying anxiety, and an intricate story are combined to create an immersive world that will bring you to the height of tension.
The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
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Shares a dark mood with The Callisto Protocol™.
Reviewers of The Callisto Protocol™ cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Callisto Protocol™.
A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!
Dead Space
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Reviewers of The Callisto Protocol™ cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with The Callisto Protocol™.
The sci-fi survival-horror classic returns, completely rebuilt to offer an even more immersive experience — including visual, audio, and gameplay improvements — while staying faithful to the original game’s thrilling vision.
Resident Evil 4
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Callisto Protocol™.
Reviewers of The Callisto Protocol™ cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with The Callisto Protocol™.
Survival is just the beginning. Six years have passed since the biological disaster in Raccoon City. Leon S. Kennedy, one of the survivors, tracks the president's kidnapped daughter to a secluded European village, where there is something terribly wrong with the locals.
SILENT HILL 2
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Shares an atmospheric mood with The Callisto Protocol™.
Reviewers of The Callisto Protocol™ cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with The Callisto Protocol™.
Investigating a letter from his late wife, James returns to where they made so many memories - Silent Hill. What he finds is a ghost town, prowled by disturbing monsters and cloaked in deep fog. Confront the monsters, solve puzzles, and search for traces of your wife in this remake of SILENT HILL 2.
Quake 4
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Shares a dark mood with The Callisto Protocol™.
Reviewers of The Callisto Protocol™ cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Callisto Protocol™.
As part of the elite Rhino Squad, you must spearhead Earth’s military invasion of a hostile alien homeworld. But, in this desperate war for humanity’s survival against an unrelenting enemy, you may discover that the only way to defeat them...is to become one of them.
The Last of them
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Reviewers of The Callisto Protocol™ cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with The Callisto Protocol™.
You play as a detective solving gruesome murders in a haunting, desolate city. Explore dark alleys, uncover hidden clues, and solve puzzles to unravel the mystery. Can you find the killer before they strike again, or will you fall victim to the terror?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Callisto Protocol™ at current Steam store prices.
Phasmophobia
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Priced ~67% under The Callisto Protocol™ on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Callisto Protocol™.
Phasmophobia is a 4 player online co-op psychological horror. Paranormal activity is on the rise and it’s up to you and your team to use all the ghost-hunting equipment at your disposal in order to gather as much evidence as you can.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~83% under The Callisto Protocol™ on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with The Callisto Protocol™.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~83% under The Callisto Protocol™ on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Callisto Protocol™.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
Schedule I
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Priced ~67% under The Callisto Protocol™ on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Callisto Protocol™.
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
Subnautica
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Priced ~50% under The Callisto Protocol™ on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with The Callisto Protocol™.
Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.
Hollow Knight
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Priced ~75% under The Callisto Protocol™ on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with The Callisto Protocol™.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
The Forest
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Priced ~67% under The Callisto Protocol™ on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with The Callisto Protocol™.
As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with The Callisto Protocol™.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Callisto Protocol™.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Callisto Protocol™.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with The Callisto Protocol™.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Callisto Protocol™.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Callisto Protocol™.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with The Callisto Protocol™.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Frequently asked about The Callisto Protocol™
- Is The Callisto Protocol™ verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — The Callisto Protocol™ is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does The Callisto Protocol™ cost?
- The Callisto Protocol™ is listed on Steam at 59.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Callisto Protocol™?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Callisto Protocol™ are Dead Space, Dead Space™ 2, Dead Space (2008).
- Who developed The Callisto Protocol™?
- The Callisto Protocol™ was developed by Striking Distance Studios and published by KRAFTON, Inc..
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on The Callisto Protocol™.
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