Prey is a first person action adventure video game developed by Arkane Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks The game was released in May 2017 for Microsoft Windows PlayStation 4 and Xbox One In Prey the player controls Morgan Yu while exploring the space station Talos I in orbit around Earth Moon L2 where research into a hostile alien collective called the Typhon is performed As the Typhon escape confinement the player uses a variety of weapons and abilities derived from the Typhon to avoid being killed by the aliens while looking to escape the station The station is presented as an open world to the player with progression through the world after obtaining key items or abilities similar in nature to a Metroidvania game Arkane s Prey is a re imagining of the 2006 game Prey developed by Human Head Studios While Prey 2 a sequel to the 2006 game had been planned it fell into development hell following transfer of the intellectual property from 3D Realms to Bethesda Softworks and was eventually cancelled in 2014 Arkane s version does not use any of the planned sequel s assets and only incorporates the name and the broad theme of the protagonist being hunted by aliens of the previous games Arkane built Prey as a spiritual sequel to System Shock providing the player with several potential means of progressing within the game