The Epic Games Store offers a ton of free games each week, and next week a new survival horror game will be available.

Revealed today, The Callisto Protocol will be available for free on the service from August 22 to 29, along with Gigantic: Rampage Edition. Coming out in 2022. The Callisto Protocol is considered the spiritual successor of the popular Dead space series. The game was originally intended to be part of the PUBG: Battlegrounds universe before becoming something of its own. The Callisto Protocol Director Glen Schofield faced heavy criticism online after he proudly celebrated putting the game’s staff through a lot of pressure; they immediately apologized.

A summary for The Callisto Protocol is:

In this third-person narrative survival horror game set 300 years in the future, the player takes on the role of Jacob Lee – a victim of fate who is thrown into Black Iron Prison, a maximum security prison on Jupiter’s moon Callisto. When inmates begin to transform into monstrous creatures, chaos erupts in the prison. To survive, Jacob must fight his way to safety to escape Black Iron Prison while uncovering the dark and disturbing secrets hidden beneath the surface of Callisto.