is prey a scary game?

[PIFFKUSH]

I was a big fan off alien isolation and the new resident evil 7. Good games to play in the dark...is this game scary or more sci-fi adventure???

[Homeless.]

Has a few jump scares and can be creepy at times but mostly not scary at all

[[OCN] John Wick ~ Rabbit]

Nope

[Kakashi]

not so much as scary but yeah, some jumps.

[TastyPillows]

I dont consider Prey a horror game but it does have some horror elements in it.

[Astariol]

It has the tension of a horror game, but you can defend yourself and the threats aren't omnipresent. So it's scary, but not like Outlast or Amnesia level scary.

[Empu]

Early game It was scary for me, but horror factor fades a bit, more of a thriller than a horror game imo.

[Eyo]

If you have trouble playing even mildly scary games like Dying Light like me than yes this game is scary.

[TwoBit]

Originally posted by Empu0323:

Early game It was scary for me, but horror factor fades a bit, more of a thriller than a horror game imo.

This. The game starts slow, with the mimics that hide around and can be pretty bad if you can't take them out one at a time, or lose sight of them. Eventualy you get a large human sized monster that you need to keep track of, ether running, hiding, or just trying to fight.

After about the second-third story area it starts to go down hill. From creepy, and earily empty space station. To a space station full of monsters and robot wizards. Eventualy I just started running from place to place. Not even worrying about hiding.

But again, for the first 1/3d of the game its pretty creepy. Wish they would have gone with that the whole game.

[Kakashi]

Originally posted by TwoBit:

Originally posted by Empu0323:

Early game It was scary for me, but horror factor fades a bit, more of a thriller than a horror game imo.

This. The game starts slow, with the mimics that hide around and can be pretty bad if you can't take them out one at a time, or lose sight of them. Eventualy you get a large human sized monster that you need to keep track of, ether running, hiding, or just trying to fight.

After about the second-third story area it starts to go down hill. From creepy, and earily empty space station. To a space station full of monsters and robot wizards. Eventualy I just started running from place to place. Not even worrying about hiding.

But again, for the first 1/3d of the game its pretty creepy. Wish they would have gone with that the whole game.

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This, feels more horror/stealth when first playing with basic mimics and Phantoms. when thermal and electical etc. aliens start getting introduced, that feeling sorta goes away. Plus I feel the need to fight pretty much everything since there is, as normally there is loot around where they are or something of importance, better to get the jump on them first before they get the jump on you.

[Inherited]

Theres jump scares, but not really horror.

You realise the pistol is OP and you're the one hunting the aliens... lol.

[PIFFKUSH]

Originally posted by Inherited:

Theres jump scares, but not really horror.

You realise the pistol is OP and you're the one hunting the aliens... lol.

this wasnt really the case in the first prey game, in the first one you got abducted, and it was some what scary to be in an alien enviornment

[Strelok4570]

m8 game iz sooper scary, spoopy as hell

[LoboFH]

It's not horror, but the game builds a great tension atmosphere. And sometimes the mimics will scare the hell out of you with a cooperative sound effect.

[Hans CakeStealer]

Lets say Amnesia the dark decent is a 10 on the scary factor and Hello Kitty is 1, then Prey is a 5

[Kain067]

The environment is more foreboding than scary. The first several hours are pretty tense because you are so weak compared to the enemies, but then you get more and more powerful (and can craft more and more ammo), and you will begin to dominate. But I like this flow, as I didn't find Resident Evil 7 very scary after the first few hours, too. But this game has much better exploration and overall gameplay than RE7, so it works better overall.