The Callisto Protocol PC System Requirements Announced
By The Callisto Protocol launches next Friday on December 2, and ahead of that, its Steam page has listed PC system requirements for the same. While certainly not as demanding as the recent Gotham Knights, the required specs lean toward a medium-end rig, asking for an Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060, to run the game at its lowest settings. There’s a mild inconsistency with the listing as well, as the requirements seem awfully close in places. Going from minimum to recommended specs only sees a small jump to a same-gen GTX 1070 card, despite demanding an additional 8GBs of RAM for optimal performance. The Callisto Protocol launches across all major platforms — PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series S/X.
That said, according to Steam’s Hardware Survey, Nvidia’s GTX 1060 is the most popular graphics card by a huge margin of 7.39 percent. While developer Striking Distance Studios does not specify whether it’s asking for a 3GB or 6GB version, the inclusion of an AMD Radeon RX 580 suggests the latter — since it’s available in an 8GB variant only.
Furthermore, The Callisto Protocol will be using Denuvo’s anti-tampering measure, which has been known to cripple game performance on PC. WB Games Montréal was one of the few major developers, who removed the DRM to combat Gotham Knights’ abysmal performance issues, merely days after launch. This also had the unfortunate side effect of pirated copies being easily created.
The Callisto Protocol PC system requirements
The Callisto Protocol’s PC specs list comes courtesy of a Steam store page update, with the common requirements being a Windows 10 64-bit operating system and 75 GBs of available storage space.
The Callisto Protocol minimum PC requirements
Processor (CPU): Intel Core i5-8400 or AMD Ryzen 5 2600
Graphics (GPU): Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 or AMD Radeon RX 580
RAM: 8GB
DirectX: Version 11The Callisto Protocol recommended PC requirements
Processor (CPU): Intel Core i7-8700 or AMD Ryzen 5 3600
Graphics (GPU): Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 or AMD Radeon RX 5700
RAM: 16GB
DirectX: Version 12The Callisto Protocol Season Pass
The Callisto Protocol’s Steam page was also updated to list season pass content, which comes included with the Deluxe Edition. Priced at Rs. 2,999, it adds four pieces of content to the base games, including the Outer Way Skin Collection, a story DLC, a Riot Bundle pitting you in a wave-based mode, and a permadeath mode for those looking for a soul-crushing experience. The last two bundles also detail 25 new death animations — 13 for protagonist Jacob Lee, and 12 for the enemies — implying that they’re locked behind a paywall.
In response to the chatter, Striking Distance Studios’ founder and CEO Glen A. Schofield took to Twitter to confirm that the team isn’t “holding anything back from the main game for the season pass.” Turns out, the animations are entirely new content and the developers haven’t even begun work on it yet. “Fans have asked for EVEN MORE deaths, so we’re making it a priority next year,” the tweet reads.
To be clear: We're not holding anything back from the main game for the season pass. We haven't even started work on this content yet. It's all new stuff that we'll be working on in the new year. Fans have asked for EVEN MORE deaths, so we're making it a priority next year.
