Prey might seem familiar. You may have seen its components before in games like BioShock, Dishonored, System Shock and even Gone Home — just not quite in this arrangement. But that doesn’t mean it’s easy, or that you’re going to know what’s going on right away. And that’s a beautiful thing. Prey is all the right kinds of perplexing and complicated.

So suit up, it’s time to get your first day of work started.

Editor’s note: Our Prey guide is a work in progress, so be sure to check back at this page often to read our latest guides, tips, tricks and walkthroughs.

Learning to play Prey

• Prey beginner’s guide: 18 things you need to know
• What you need to know about keycodes
• Prey glitch breaks the game’s crafting system
• Prey guide: Neuromods, skill and abilities tree
• Prey guide: How to increase your inventory
• Prey guide: Finding and fighting mimics
• Prey guide: Full list of achievements and trophies
• Prey guide: Nightmare
• Getting into the IT supply closet
• How to disable military operator dispensers

Weapon and ammo guides

• Where to find Prey’s weapons
• Where to find Prey’s fabrication plans for ammo, consumables and weapons
• How to find Q-Beam ammo and the Q-Beam cells fabrication plan
• How to add or remove weapons and psi powers from your favorites wheel
• How to get the golden gun
• Item locations for fabrication plans, keycards, optional objectives, Psychoscope and suit chipsets and TranScribes

Prey’s multiple endings

• Prey’s weirdest, not-quite-secret ending
• A Mind Without Limits
• Perdition
• All of Prey’s endings
• Decisions that affect the ending and “A Hidden Place,” explained

Walkthroughs

In this section, you’ll find walkthroughs that take you through every area, every room, every enemy and every important item in Prey.

How to use Polygon’s Prey walkthroughs

We’ve organized our guide by the objectives (and locations) you’ll see in the game. There’s going to be a lot of exploration available to you. We’ll point out the important things and items, but our first focus will be on the direct path to the next goal. Then we’ll get to exploring the surrounding areas.

Main story

• First Day on the Job
• Break Out
• An Office with a View
• Everything You Know is About To Change
• Who Is December?
• Where to find the Escape Pod Key (EP01 keycard) in Alex’s room
• Through a Glass Darkly
• How to find Dr. Calvino’s secret stash
• Gathering Echoes
• Restore From Backup
• This Side Up
• Shipping and Receiving
• Cargo Bay Defenses
• Reboot
• The Keys to the Kingdom
• Before I Give You the Key
• The Repo Man
• How to find Dahl's tech officer during The Repo Man
• Dahl Ultimatum
• Incapacitate Dahl
• Save Alex
• A Mind Without Limits
• Perdition

Optional missions and objectives

• Talos 1 Lobby optional rooms
• The Corpse Vanishes
• Lift Interference
• The Blackbox Project
• Do No Harm
• Save Rani
• The Cook’s Request
• Doctor Igwe
• Whistleblower
• Golden Gun
• Danielle Sho
• Talos Smuggling Ring
• Shuttle Advent
• Escape Attempt
• Drunk Tank
• Missing Engineer
• Psychic Water
• Million Dollar Caulk Gun
• Assist Mikhaila Ilyushin
• Ghosting Dahl
• Help Luther Glass
• Treasure Hunt
• Gardening Tips
• Gustav Leitner
• Mikhaila Ilyushin
• Mikhaila’s Father
• With This Ring …
• Trouble Processing
• Disgruntled Employee
• The Lover’s Gift
• Derelict Shuttle
• Copy Protection
• Mixed Signals
• Showing Initiative and the ‘I and It’ achievement/trophy