r/prey

I'm a few hours in and I need to talk about the intro, because I think it's one of the best hooks I've played in a long time.

You wake up in your apartment, get the helicopter ride, and go through the usual "day one at the lab" setup. It all felt a bit routine, and I thought it would be a standard sci-fi game. Then the testing room happened. Seeing the Mimic jump out of nowhere, followed by waking up in that same apartment, is when I knew the game was messing with me.

What got me is how quiet it is about it. There's no big cutscene saying "you’re in a simulation." You just notice small things the same morning, the same stuff, and something that feels slightly wrong. I spent an embarrassing amount of time checking every corner of that apartment before I found anything.

And then you get out and see the real Talos I for the first time, and the tone changes completely. Looking back, the opening made me trust my surroundings, so everything after it hits harder.

Now I'm paranoid about every object in the game. I put the wrench through a coffee mug just to be safe and felt kind of dumb about it.

Did the opening get you the same way? And did anyone figure out the twist before the game spelled it out? I'd like to know what I missed.

I’m playing through it for the first time and at the same time I’m loving it I’m absolutely having a very shitty time too. The enemies are simply IMPOSSIBLE to deal with. I’ve done my research. I got stronger. I got the shotgun. I upgraded it as far as I could. I tracked down every single early-game neuromod. I invested in stealth attacks. I bring a turret with me everywhere. I play patiently and try to strategize. I use my environment, shoot explosive cannisters, etc. AND I STILL CANNOT FUCKING KILL THESE MOTHERFUCKING PHANTOMS NO MATTER WHAT.

To make matters worse I thought the survival mechanics sounded cool and turned them on (except weapon degradation) at the start of the game. Big mistake. Now I have a burn trauma that I can’t cure bc I haven’t ran into a single fucking burn remedy in the game and a destroyed suit that I can’t fix because suit repairs are rarer than gold and “operators” (whatever they are, I read about them on the popup tutorial) simply don’t exist at the point where I’m at.

I’m getting killed in two hits by nearly everything, right now stuck in trauma center trying to get more neuromods before doing the first Psychotronics visit. Very early in the game but I’ve died so many times my play count is at 8 hours.

Is this simply not for me? As much as I’ve loved everything else the difficulty is maddening enough I feel like giving up. I haven’t felt this frustrated with a game ever and I 100%ed Sekiro - but that game was at least fair.

No I’m not crazy, hear me out.

So we know, generally as we have been taught in the games that weavers take human corpses and turn them into phantoms. We are taught this pretty early on in the game and it is restated a few times throughout the game.

But when a corpse is corrupted and claimed by the typhon, being warped into a phantom, we still get to see their name. But a lot of the phantoms in the game spawn in to keep the areas populated and prevent places being too easy to move through. And none of them tie back to humans on the station.

In fact if we wanted to, we could track everyone on the station down to their exact corpses if we wanted to. So surely I can’t be that far off when I assume that these phantoms are not human corpses. I’m sure we could hand wave it away as a game mechanic, but for a game so well thought through, so meticulously and lovingly put together it seems unlikely to be an oversight. So where do yall think, or know the additional phantoms come from?

Epic Game store is offering System Shock 2 Remaster for one of its free games this week. Thats it. Grab it free while you can if you want to check it out. Prey was heavily inspired from this game from what i remember from early media about Prey

So I have recieved a Key for Prey from a friend, but buying the Digital Deluxe Edition(Bundled with Control which I already own) is cheaper than buying MoonCrash seperately. What happens to the Base Copy of Prey that comes with the Digital Deluxe? Can I gift that to a friend?

Prey still has one of the best atmospheres in an immersive sim. Talos I feels genuinely creepy, and the environmental storytelling makes exploring it worth it.

What’s your favorite part of the game?

I love prey, and this game seems very similar. Does anyone recommend it?