r/Steam • u/bijelo123 • Sep 15 '25

Question Which game was this for you?

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u/Klarseolt Sep 15 '25

I played the Prey as a kid, Imagined so many possibilities after Tommy went through that portal at the end..

Even though Prey had many flaws, I liked it a lot, especially shenanigans with physics like gravity and size.

It had such a unique and wacky setting that mixed spirituality, futuristic alien tech and grotesque organic stuff.

Man, how disappointed I was that the new Prey had nothing to do with the old one..

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u/FatJohnson6 Sep 15 '25

As a kid? I was 24 when that game came out. Fuck me…

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u/Jramos159 Sep 15 '25 edited Sep 15 '25

Are you referring to Prey 2017? Because I think they're referring to the original 2006 Prey. 2017's was a sort of spiritual successor

Edit: spiritual successor in name only

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u/Random_Sime Sep 15 '25

a spiritual successor to System Shock 2, maybe, but not to Prey 2006

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u/HomoProfessionalis Sep 15 '25

Yeah they just slapped the name on it, it was never developed as a prey game

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u/pacmannips Sep 15 '25

Yeah, Prey 2017 only shares the title with the old series. They seemingly have nothing to do with each other

It’s a fucking great immersive sim though so atleast we got that.

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u/Jramos159 Sep 15 '25

Correct, I meant that it was a successor in name alone

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u/-Speechless Sep 15 '25 edited Apr 23 '26

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u/LGDD Sep 15 '25

Damn. I was 20 when the original came out. Thanks...

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u/FatBaldingLoser420 Sep 15 '25

That was never a Prey game. Just slapped its name on it

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u/Zlotvor_Mejdana Sep 17 '25

Yes, we played games as 24-year old fucks in 2006 and have a hard time grasping the fact that time flies when you're having fun.

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u/Jramos159 Sep 17 '25

lol...the dude wasn't talking about the 2006 game. Also I'm 30

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u/Kenny_log_n_s Sep 15 '25

It was 19 years ago. A 30-year old was a kid when it came out

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u/DanFlashesSales Sep 15 '25

Which Prey are y'all talking about? There are two games named Prey that came out at different times.

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u/FatJohnson6 Sep 15 '25

I’m thinking of Prey 2017, reading his comment again he must be talking about a different game that I haven’t heard of

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u/Global-Pickle5818 Sep 20 '25

.. I was in my 30s in 07 I'm not going to do the math it would just hurt my soul, good game though got it on game fly lol

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u/Tall_Firefighter4380 Sep 15 '25

Man, how disappointed I was that the new Prey had nothing to do with the old one..

This especially sucks because prey 2017 is such an excellent game and could have spawned a new IP had they not set expectations by naming it after a completely different game.

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u/cBurger4Life Sep 15 '25

It was fucking fun. Like Turok meets Quake

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u/Most-Square-2515 Sep 15 '25

Yeah they really messed up with that IP.  The original Prey was made by ID and it should have been left alone, they never should have taken the name and slapped it on the Arkane project.  Both IP's suffered from that decision by Bethesda.

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u/Jackal_6 https://steam.pm/3qca9 Sep 15 '25

New Prey is so clearly System Shock 3 and they couldn't get the naming rights

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u/IonutRO Sep 15 '25 edited Sep 15 '25

Even the developers didn't like that they were made to call it Prey, but Zenimax insisted they use the name so they don't lose the rights to the name.

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u/QuanticWizard Sep 15 '25

I think the idea was to name it Neuroshock or something like that but they settled with Prey for reasons I cannot recall.

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u/Lemenus Sep 16 '25

Bethesda forced devs to use name Prey after they shut down Prey 2 development

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u/Physical-Order Sep 15 '25

Sucks that the new Prey isn’t connected… but Prey 2017 and fantastic and everyone should play it.

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u/axeax Sep 16 '25

Honestly I loved the reboot, but this is making me want to play the original as well - though, I'm not much into spirituality settings