Prey

Prey's space station is fantastically explorable and its shape-shifting enemies maintain tension when combat doesn't.

Prey squanders its narrative opportunities but develops into an engaging open-world shooter.

An ornate and clever if slightly under-cooked System Shock successor, which makes the most of a truly magnificent space station setting.

It's let down by lacklustre combat and some annoying enemy design, but Prey is still a compelling, beautiful immersive sim.

As a mystery, a deep-space haunted house with dozens of stories of tragedy and humanity to tell, Prey is a remarkably successful archaeological expedition — and it manages to compellingly ruminate on what it means to be .

With a setting that tells a story better than any human voice, Prey's combat and quests will suck you even deeper into its world.

Though it lives a little too comfortably in the shadows of its influences, Prey is a quality horror-action game

Bethesda's reimagining of the popular shooting game combines the best of Bioshock, Dead Space and Dishonored but does little extra with them

Prey is a game that's smart about almost every aspect of itself, and yet with that, so crucially modest. It doesn't yank the camera from you, doesn't force you to sit through cutscenes, doesn't demand you sit still and listen to its backstory. It's content to be itself and let you find it, which is a damned rare treat in this hobby. Even more amazingly, for all its array of abilities and powers, you can finish the game without touching them, perhaps even find a narrative rationale for doing so.

Funny enough, I leave Prey happy and content with everyone's story but my own.