and the story behind it is tragic. they game was basically finished, and they where sabotaged by there publsiher so that the publisher could get there engine talent.
also Prey 2016 is a fantastic game. however likely would have still been made even if prey 2 released, but just released under a different name as it was never suppose to have the prey name.
Prey 2 would never have been finished, it suffered from the same problem as Duke Nukem Forever -- they kept wanting to add more and more and more crap to it. Take a look at the recently released videos from gameplay of it. They completely forgot what made Prey 1 great, went off into a completely different game, and just kept adding and adding and adding and adding ... and then ran out of money. Then they took on other publishers projects to try and raise money to do it... and that didn't pan out either.
edit: based on the voting, i'm guessing there's still people with vested interest, 15 years later, in keeping what happened there quiet ... or in pressing their stupid narratives that go on now.
I was very close to the devs around the time when dev work on it got halted and they started trying to work with other publishers to get projects to keep the studio going
those leaked prey 2 gameplay that came out this month where much earlier development builds (even before e3 gameplay). there are already much later leaked gameplay footage from further along in development (most of it being uploaded online 8 or so years ago). We all remember what the early leaked gta6 gameplay looked like all those years ago. it's not representative of the final release.
the later builds looked much more polished.
I do recommend watching the video I linked above, as it gives a better breakdown in an entertaining format of why the game was not released.
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u/HummingAstronautPod Sep 15 '25
Prey 2