The Callisto Protocol released on PC, Xbox, and PlayStation this week, but PC players say the game is currently in an “unacceptable” state.
The game’s store page on Steam, the largest digital games marketplace on PC, has been flooded with negative reviews for the recently-released game, with most complaining about its poor performance. The game has almost 2500 reviews on the platform, and roughly 2000 of those reviews are negative.
Players have complained of what they call a “stutter”, which seems to primarily happen when entering new areas, as new assets load into place. This stutter causes the frame rate to drop significantly for a brief moment, which can be disorienting and jarring for players.
Others have said that they can’t get the game to perform well at all, even on high-end hardware. Players with NVIDIA RTX 3080 graphics cards, which were some of 2020’s most…