Games like LOCKDOWN Protocol
If LOCKDOWN Protocol is your kind of game, the closest matches are Sanitism, Deep Dark Space and Sincognito — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its 500 hours of replayability, competitive 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 →LOCKDOWN Protocol, developed by Mirage Creative Lab and released in 2025, is a 3D first-person social deduction game set in a sci-fi space environment. The game combines real-time combat with minigames and cooperative objectives, supporting up to 16 players in online multiplayer. Players take on different roles as most work together to secure victory while a small group of dissidents attempts to sabotage their efforts without detection. The title features community-driven events and persistent world elements that contribute to a massive experience. Players describe the gameplay as intense and competitive with constant variety across scenarios. Priced at $9.99, the game holds an 83% positive rating from over 9,000 Steam reviews and runs in a playable state on Steam Deck.
About LOCKDOWN Protocol: 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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Steam players who put hours into LOCKDOWN Protocol also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Sanitism
WHY THIS
Top pick for LOCKDOWN Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with LOCKDOWN Protocol.
Sanitism: A rare mental illness with an unknown origin that causes its victims to lose their rationality and empathy, leading to uncontrollable, violent behavior. The disease induces a state of severe aggression, prompting individuals to attack anyone in their vicinity.
Deep Dark Space
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for LOCKDOWN Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with LOCKDOWN Protocol.
Deep Dark Space is a 4-player online co-op horror experience set in space. Explore abandoned stations, gather clues, and uncover the monster lurking in the dark. Trust no one — paranoia runs high as hidden betrayals threaten your survival.
Sincognito
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for LOCKDOWN Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with LOCKDOWN Protocol.
An social deduction investigation horror game where one of you is secretly possessed by a Deadly Sin. Use stealth and proximity chat to cooperate or deceive as you gather clues and compare findings to deduce which Sin is haunting the castle.
DUBIUM
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with LOCKDOWN Protocol.
Ranked #4 for LOCKDOWN Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with LOCKDOWN Protocol.
DUBIUM is a survival deception game set in a near future sci-fi environment. Five Frontiers must work together to complete different missions to escape before it’s too late. But beware, one of the Frontiers is a Traitor whose goal is to escape and leave the others to fall into the abyss.
Deceive Inc.
WHY THIS
Shares a competitive mood with LOCKDOWN Protocol.
Ranked #5 for LOCKDOWN Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with LOCKDOWN Protocol.
Go undercover as the world’s greatest spies in this tense multiplayer game of subterfuge. Disguise as anyone, deploy an arsenal of high-tech gadgets or neutralize the competition. As long as you extract with the objective, no trick is too dirty when you work for DECEIVE INC.
Sail Ho!
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for LOCKDOWN Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with LOCKDOWN Protocol.
Sail Ho! is an FPS social deduction game with economic elements for up to 12 players. Use resources to complete tasks and fix your ship to escape a cursed island before pirates catch your crew, or sell them to buy weapons and defend against traitors. Or maybe... you are the traitor!
Silent Station
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for LOCKDOWN Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with LOCKDOWN Protocol.
Deceive your friends and throw them into space, prepare deadly traps or figure out an impostor. Here you will learn how to cheat and use deduction. The game is well suited for companies of 6-12 people. The full range of emotions is guaranteed! Buy for friends as a gift!
Deducto 2
WHY THIS
Shares task completion, social deduction and an intense mood with LOCKDOWN Protocol.
Ranked #8 for LOCKDOWN Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with LOCKDOWN Protocol.
A fun sus-like game where you backstab your co-workers and get mad at your co-workers for backstabbing you. (up to 16 players)
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below LOCKDOWN Protocol at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under LOCKDOWN Protocol on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with LOCKDOWN Protocol.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under LOCKDOWN Protocol on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with LOCKDOWN Protocol.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under LOCKDOWN Protocol on Steam right now. Shares Action with LOCKDOWN Protocol.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under LOCKDOWN Protocol on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with LOCKDOWN Protocol.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under LOCKDOWN Protocol on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with LOCKDOWN Protocol.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under LOCKDOWN Protocol on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with LOCKDOWN Protocol.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under LOCKDOWN Protocol on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with LOCKDOWN Protocol.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under LOCKDOWN Protocol on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with LOCKDOWN Protocol.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with LOCKDOWN Protocol.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with LOCKDOWN 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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with LOCKDOWN Protocol.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with LOCKDOWN Protocol.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with LOCKDOWN 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.).
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with LOCKDOWN Protocol.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Casual with LOCKDOWN Protocol.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
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Frequently asked about LOCKDOWN Protocol
- Does LOCKDOWN Protocol run on Steam Deck?
- LOCKDOWN Protocol is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does LOCKDOWN Protocol cost?
- LOCKDOWN Protocol is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does LOCKDOWN Protocol have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — LOCKDOWN Protocol supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to LOCKDOWN Protocol?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside LOCKDOWN Protocol are Sanitism, Deep Dark Space, Sincognito.
- Who developed LOCKDOWN Protocol?
- LOCKDOWN Protocol was developed by Mirage Creative Lab.
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