I’ll second this entirely.

Prey 2006 is a slightly gory boomer shooter with interesting topsy-turvy levels, gravity tricks, a few cool enemies and guns and powers, and a campy alien abduction / invasion story. It might be a little underrated in its genre. Definitely fun.

But Prey 2017 was more of a clever stealth action / psych horror title in the vein of Deus Ex and of course System Shock. Brilliant interconnected level design, a deep story, a good (though not super original) roster of guns and superpowers, some tricky puzzles, and a few interesting and enemies. It gets a good amount of love but I still think it deserves wider recognition as an excellent game.

It’s frankly stupid that they have the same name.

It’s was a really strange mix of puzzle and brainfucked mechanics. The story was original and something new/fresh.

I really hoped for a sequel or a reboot… The new IP is just ‘meh’… nothing special about it… Or maybe I’m just getting old and nostalgia is kicking in ^^

They are completely unrelated. They just had a really cool name they didn’t want to lose.

It probably doesn’t help that it’s abandonware and was limited largely to the PC and Xbox 360.

A lot of people only hear about it in “top abandonware games” lists that would mention it and games like Alpha Protocol which was recently relisted.

Do you have any other games where the first hour was extremely enjoyable?

I felt that way about Returnal