Prey is positively tremendous. It is a thrilling sci-fi shooter immersive sim that puts you in the role of Morgan Yu, a scientist aboard a space station during an alien outbreak. There are a wide variety of powers and skills to choose from to augment yourself as you see fit. As with other games in the genre like Deus Ex or Dishonored, you can choose to play stealthy or fight your way through every encounter, you can lean more on your human abilities or delve into the Typhon abilities (such as being able to turn into objects in the environment to sneak around, or use telekinesis to grab far away objects, or teleport).

There's a lot of mystery surrounding the story and no doubt many different endings to strive towards. It is thought provoking and hits a lot of the well known sci-fi tropes. I really slept on this game for far too long (especially considering my love of the genre), and I will definitely want to go back some day and do another playthrough making some different decisions. I do have some minor complaints (enemy dead body visibility being low, the biggest area of the station not having a map), but these are minor things. I hope they do another game in this universe some day.

Reviewed on Sep 07, 2022


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