Lockdown Protocol Could Be Your New Favorite Party Game

, a new indie early-access game by Mirage Creative Labs,brings the fun to online group socials with friends, and it could be your next favorite party game. It thrusts players into its cosmic world to use social deduction tofigure out who has been killing players before catastrophe hits.

The killers, dissidents, can stall players by messing with tasks while working towards the mission of killing as many players as possible in order for them to win. As long as everyone works together to complete tasks, they can execute the lockdown protocol before it's too late. Similar to, it allows anyone at any level of gaming, even if they have no experience, to play. took the world by storm in 2020, and challenges its now-traditional gameplay, adding dimension to what everyone knew about the original game.

While originally released back in July of this year, the game is an indie release that has been trending across social media as of late. follows similar rules to, but the creators encourage players to create their own, like unspoken etiquette. This was helped last month, when the ever-popular content creator penguinz0 uploaded a video titled "," which amassed 1.4 million views.

Updates — including a recent one at the end of September — have also helped keep the game feeling fresh, despite not being substantial changes. The September update, for example, only tweaked color selection options, while adding the option for purple as a color. Still, for veteran fans, any update is a welcome one.

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In the game, veryone has a stamina bar, where running burns it out while also making noise like sprinting or choosing to walk to conserve energy and be quiet. runs with proximity chat with the option to create private voice chats between players, such as a conversation between the two impostors. It adds more challenges with this and the ability to only hold