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LOCKDOWN Protocol

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2025

Should you play it?

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.

What works

  • Fun and engaging social deduction gameplay
  • Excellent proximity voice chat
  • Good task design with strategic depth
  • Strong community and friend group play
  • Polished and smooth early access experience

Things to keep in mind

  • Limited map variety leading to repetition
  • Some bugs and occasional crashes
  • Presence of hackers and toxic players
  • Lack of character customization
  • Dlc pricing concerns during early access

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • First Class Trouble

  • Screencheat

  • Ben and Ed - Blood Party

  • AQtion

  • UpGun

  • Deducto

Less dominating

Games that feels like LOCKDOWN Protocol but with less domination over others

  • The Anomaly Project

  • PAYDAY™ The Heist

  • MIMESIS

  • Perfect Heist 2

  • Klaus Veen's Treason

  • Fast and Low

More story-driven

Games that feels like LOCKDOWN Protocol but with deeper narrative immersion

  • System Shock 2: 25th Anniversary Remaster

  • Dale & Dawson Stationery Supplies

  • School 666

  • Unfortunate Spacemen

  • Deceive Inc.

  • Dodgy Deliveries

More relaxing

Games that feels like LOCKDOWN Protocol but with a more relaxing feel

  • Airport Security Sucks!

  • Goofy Gorillas

  • BLOCKPOST LEGACY

  • Shotgun Farmers

  • BBQ Simulator: The Squad

  • Friends vs Friends

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  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
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  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with LOCKDOWN Protocol. These titles are not in What to play next.

LOCKDOWN Protocol: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Story, Relaxation, Progression.

Last update: 21/08/2026