Since its launch in 2020, the horror-horror horror of Dead Space creator Glen Schofield, The Callisto Protocol, has evoked images of Dead Space, so it was a bit of a surprise when, due to several studio connections, it was announced that the game would be established. in the PUBG universe. That, however, is no longer the case, with Schofield now saying it is “his own history and world.”
The Callisto Protocol is a third-person horror game set in 2320, with its action taking place within the confines of the Black Iron Prison colony on Jupiter’s moon, Callisto. While this setting may not immediately call viewers PUBG, the connection comes from the fact that the developer Striking Distance was explicitly established by the publisher Krafton of PUBG: Battlegrounds to create narrative-based games that expand the universe introduced in the success of Battle Royale.
As Schofield explained on a recent GameInformer cover of The Callisto Protocol, “When we came in, [Krafton] he had a team of tradition and they were writing this great story, like, “Where does PUBG start? Where does it fit in?” Had these plans continued, the horror game would have stayed “quite far” along the timeline, but at some point during development the idea was abandoned.
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In a Twitter post, Schofield revealed that while the Callisto protocol “was originally part of the PUBG timeline, [it] he grew up in his own world. “Extending it in a conversation with GameInformer, he added: “Wow, that’s a little out there.”
“PUBG is great and we’ll still have little surprises for fans,” Schofield continued in his tweet, “but TCP is its own world, history and universe.”
The Callisto protocol, now devoid of any PUBG connection, is expected to be released on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X / S and PC later this year.