Prey
Worth it · Shooter · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$29.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$5.9980% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.83/hr
- ReviewsS
- 91% of 54,999
- Genre rank
- Top 14% Shooter
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $5.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 16.4h
- To 100%
- 46.6h 2.8x the story
- Achievements
- 58
Price and sales
- Sales
- 66 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $2.99 November 2023
- Sale every
- 42d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 167 now
- Recent reviews
- 87% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 7% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 86% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
82% start to 1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
66 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 5 days ago.
Its score sits in the top 14 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 86 percent. Among the games that feel like it, System Shock ($11.99, scores 83) beats it on value, while it beats SCP: Fragmented Minds ($9.99, scores 65).
More about Prey
7 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written January 2025 to October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,424 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 1,200 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 54 percent of the 1,838 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
The main story runs 16.4 hours. Doing everything runs 47, 2.8 times as long.
Deck Verified, so no launch options and no controller remapping before it runs.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $5.99 (80% off). Predictions like this were right 87% of the time when tested on 70 past weeks.
Last discount ended 5 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
It is one of the best games ever made, and there would be more like it if the average consumer wasn't domesticated cattle; that includes me
2 more reviews
Probably the best game Arkane ever made, and a high water mark for the immersive sim genre even if it's a decade old. Explore a space station (inside, outside, crawl spaces, everywhere), be a loot goblin and scavenge everything that's not bolted to the floor, inject skill points directly into your brain, and spend a lot of time thinking about the trolley dilemma. It's Deus Ex in space, it's BioShock but not arcadey...
My all time favorite im-sim. Also, this is hands down the greatest game Arkane has and likely will ever make, it still is a masterpiece almost 10 years since it's release. This is a game with some of the most in-depth systems of interaction that I've ever played, but manages to stay accessible enough to not be intimidating. This game playfully encourages experimentation & creativity at nearly every moment with it's...
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About the game
In Prey, you awaken aboard Talos I, a space station orbiting the moon in the year 2032. You are the key subject of an experiment meant to alter humanity forever – but things have gone terribly wrong. The space station has been overrun by hostile aliens and you are now being hunted.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GTX 660 2GB, AMD Radeon 7850 2GB, 20 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Prey scores 69/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/480490/preyReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 7, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.