If you can’t wait to dive into The Callisto Protocol’s story, you’re in luck, as the horror game has an official prologue podcast now, The Callisto Protocol: Helix Station (first spotted by PCGamesN). The game’s developer, Striking Distance, also created The Callisto Protocol podcast, which has two episodes currently and will see a new episode debut each week until the end of November.
“In the year 2320, a skip tracer hunts down a dangerous escaped criminal on a derelict space station,” the podcast description reads. “In the process, she must confront murderous alien life forms, as well as unspeakable horrors from her past.”
The skip tracer – bounty hunter, in Callisto speak – in question is Percy, played by Gwendoline Christie (Game of Thrones, Sandman), who knows something of the dark secret hidden aboard Helix Station, the same station she and her tracer partner Kane have no choice but to investigate after crew from the Black Iron Prison board their ship and demand their assistance.
Episode two sees the tracers board the derelict Helix Station, abandoned for 20 years and overrun with deadly robots and mutated bioforms. Aboard the station is something much worse than that, though.
The Callisto Protocol itself takes place on the Black Iron Prison ship, so while you can probably guess how things turn out in the prologue, it still sounds like a gripping setup.
You can check the podcast out for yourself on Simplecast or anywhere you normally download your favorite podcasts.
The Callisto Protocol releases on Dec. 2, 2022, for PC, Xbox One and Series X|S, and PS4 and PS5, and while it might share some similarities with Dead Space, the creators say it’s a much deeper experience.
Written by Josh Broadwell on behalf of GLHF
