How many people are playing Prey right now?

333 people are playing Prey on Steam right now, making it the 1169th most played game on Steam. In the last 24 hours it peaked at 422 players. The number updates every few minutes.

What is Prey's all-time peak player count?

Prey's highest concurrent player count on Steam is 24,594, reached in May 2017.

Is Prey good? What do Steam reviews say?

90% of 37,987 Steam user reviews are positive (Very Positive).

How much does Prey cost on Steam?

Prey costs $29.99 on Steam (US). The lowest price we've recorded is $2.40.

Does Prey work on Steam Deck?

Prey is Verified for Steam Deck, according to Valve's Steam Deck compatibility check.

Prey

by Arkane Studios · published by Bethesda Softworks · Released May 4, 2017

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Players now

#1,169

333

▼ 16.1%vs 24h ago · updates every minute

Review score

90% positive

Very Positive37,987 reviews

Owners (est.)1M–2M

24h peak

422

Highest seen24,594

May 20179.5 years ago

Price on Steam

$29.99

Lowest ever $2.40 Feb 2025

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Players -16.1% in the last 24 hoursUpdated 17:32 UTC · tracking since 2017-05-01

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PreyEdition
$29.99
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Prey Digital DeluxeEdition
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Prey and Dishonored 2 BundleBundle
$48.58
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Reviews

90% positive of 37,987 · Very Positive · Live from Steam

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Steam Deck

Works great on Steam Deck. Results from Valve's own testing.

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✓Default controller config fully functional
✓Controller glyphs match deck device
✓Interface text is legible
✓Default configuration is performant

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Patches & builds

Every build released on Steam for this game since we started tracking it, with the developer's patch notes. Updated within minutes of each new build.

Jul 23, 2020, 2:00 PM UTC
Build 5297220the current build when we started tracking28.2 GB on Windows

Patch notes

Jul 18, 2020
PatchPrey will lose Denuvo DRM in a future update
Chalk it down - another triple-A game using Denuvo anti-cheat is removing the software. This time around, it's Prey , the 2017 horror game from Arkane Studios, that's losing the DRM system. Announcement of the patch came on Reddit , where it was revealed the u…

Other news (19)

Aug 15, 2026
You can now play the secret best immersive sim in coop thanks to this mod
Immersive sims like Dishonored and Deus Ex are typically solo experiences, but there have been a few attempts to bring multiplayer into the mix over the years. System Shock 2 featured an infamously wonky cooperative mode that was overhauled in last year's Nigh…
Sep 5, 2025
Former Bethesda marketing VP says he fought against reusing the Prey name for Arkane's 2017 immersive sim: 'I definitely pissed some people off internally over that'
rkane's 2017 immersive sim Prey is a genuinely great videogame, with a genuinely weird name—shared with a pre-existing shooter and a famously cancelled sequel that it has absolutely nothing to do with. Arkane founder Raphael Colantonio said a few years ago tha…
Sep 3, 2025
Leaked Prey 2 development footage shows scifi bounty hunter gameplay that our cold and uncaring universe continues to deny us
Few ideas have as universal an appeal as the space bounty hunter: a character archetype that blends all the best bits of wandering ronin and western gunslingers and gives them a cool spaceship and a jetpack. But while almost everyone wants to be Boba Fett, vid…
Sep 3, 2025
New footage of axed Prey 2 emerges, and it's bound to open up some old wounds
The original Prey was one of the most striking and innovative FPS games of the 2000s - I mean, it had portals before Portal, for crying out loud. It was the excellent result of an admittedly turbulent development cycle that spanned roughly a decade, and that i…
Feb 8, 2025
You can build your own FPS bundle right now for less than $2 a game
First-person shooters are one of the genres that's come to define gaming on PC. Between the rip-roaring action of a good gunfight, social interactions of an MMO, or the long-term decision-making of a strategy game, playing on our computers has been characteriz…
May 10, 2024
You can buy Prey, Fallout: New Vegas, and Fallout 3 at just under $2 a pop right now—that's 3 games for less than I'll be spending on lunch today
In case you've never played Prey, Fallout 3, or its 'cooler Daniel' Fallout: New Vegas—I've got great news. You can get all three of them for less than I, PC Gamer writer Harvey Randall, will be spending on lunch shortly after I writ…
May 8, 2024
One prospective Prey 2 fan has broken a 2,556-day streak of posting daily updates after the recent studio closure
Prey was released in 2017 to some lukewarm review scores, but overall, it had a pretty fantastic reception, with many praising it as an underrated masterpiece. But only one fan took their love of the game to the next level, counting down the days until a possi…
May 8, 2024
As Arkane Austin falls to the shareholders, its masterpiece Prey, which 'elevated immersive sims to a god-tier level', is slashed in price by 80%
Like many PC gamers across the world, I was appalled when I heard about the shuttering of Arkane Austin by Microsoft . Despite the studio's recent woe with Redfall , a game described by some commentators as one where 'executives ruined everything&apo…
May 8, 2024
Making good, profitable games 'will no longer keep you safe': industry expresses fury and heartbreak over closure of Hi-Fi Rush and Prey studios
fter laying off thousands of employees over the past couple years, games industry executives appear to be adopting a more efficient method of what they euphemistically call "reprioritization": closing entire studios. Take-Two axed two studios just last week, a…
Mar 22, 2024
Arkane founder teases his next project, a 'retro sci-fi first-person' game, and now I'm thinking a whole lot about the Prey sequel we never got
rkane co-founder Raphael Colantonio, who left the studio in 2017 and launched indie developer WolfEye Studios a couple years later, is teasing his next game—and even though it's just scribbles on a whiteboard, I am already excited... Read more.
Aug 2, 2023
QuakeCon sale gives you up to 85% off these essential FPS games
A QuakeCon sale gives you huge discounts on many top series from the legendary studios behind some of the best FPS games . Along with Doom and Quake creator id Software, Bethesda (now a part of Microsoft) also comprises Wolfenstein developers Machine Games, Di…
Jul 7, 2023
The best PC Game Pass deal is back, just ahead of Starfield
Microsoft's PC Game Pass $1 deal is back, giving you a great chance to try out some of the best PC games for next to nothing. As we prepare for the Starfield release date , with Bethesda's space epic coming to the subscription service on day one, now is a grea…
Jun 16, 2023
Get Bethesda's best games for dirt cheap ahead of Starfield
The Elder Scrolls , Doom, Fallout, Dishonored, Wolfenstein, Quake, The Evil Within - you name it, Bethesda has some of the best PC games in its catalog, and you can get most of them for next to nothing right now thanks to a sale with up to 85% off the likes of…
May 17, 2023
Prey players write letter to Bethesda asking for a sequel
Could Prey 2 ever become a reality? The Arkane and Bethesda FPS game from 2017 has become a cult favorite, regarded for its inventive puzzle design, stylish, art deco environments, and mind-bending narrative. In the wake of Redfall, Dishonored developer Arkane…
Aug 31, 2022
Bethesda forced Arkane to call its game Prey, which studio founder says was 'very, very hurtful'
I like Arkane's 2017 immersive sim Prey a lot—even more than I liked Human Head's 2006 FPS of the same name. (Which, for the record, I liked quite a lot too.) But I was always baffled by the decision to reuse the title. Developer Arkane was ex…
May 12, 2022
Arkane's brilliant immersive sim Prey is free for the week on the Epic Store
The Epic Games Store has been giving away games for a few years, and to be frank it's grown a little mundane. But it still puts up some real bangers every now and then, and today is one of those days: Prey , Arkane's absolutely fantastic sci-fi shoot…
Nov 13, 2019
Prey dev Human Head Studios shut due to "economic realities"
Human Head Studios, developer of the original Prey, has shut its doors after 22 years. In its place is Roundhouse Studios - a new company owned by Bethesda. All Human Head employees were offered a job at Roundhouse as part of the transition, Bethesda has said.…
Aug 13, 2019
Prey 2 audio logs reveal more of the cancelled game's story
Prey 2 is one of the cancelled games I think about the most. That trailer was enough to build up a lot of anticipation and dreams of being a bounty hunter on an alien planet. Instead we got the excellent but dramatically different Prey from Arkane. We'll …
Dec 12, 2018
Prey's Typhon Hunter multiplayer mode is very bare bones
Prey ’s multiplayer mode, Typhon Hunter, sounds like a perfect fit for the paranoia-inducing FPS. Launched yesterday, it puts one player in the shoes of Morgan, while three other players get to be mimics, using their shapeshifting abilities to hide from…

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History

What changed on Steam for this game since we started following it: prices and sales, builds, name, release date and review score.

Review score: 90% on 2026-11-01 → 90% today (37,987 reviews)

Nov 3, 2026Sale ended$29.99
Oct 31, 2026Sale −80%$5.99 (was $29.99)

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DLC

2 items on Steam, newest first.

Prey (Original Game Soundtrack)
$9.9975% positive
Prey - Mooncrash
$19.9974% positive

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Trading cards

8 cards. Buying one of each costs $0.48, which crafts this game's badge; the foil set costs $5.71.

Cheapest badges

FEMALE MORGAN YU$0.05

MIKHAILA ILYUSHIN$0.06

Foil cards (8)

MIKHAILA ILYUSHIN$0.32

SARAH ELAZAR$0.32

MALE MORGAN YU$0.32

ALEX YU$0.58

Prices checked 2026-11-02, lowest Steam Community Market listing in US dollars.

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Demo

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Prey player count and quick facts

How many people are playing Prey right now?: 333 people are playing Prey on Steam right now, making it the 1169th most played game on Steam. In the last 24 hours it peaked at 422 players. The number updates every few minutes.
What is Prey's all-time peak player count?: Prey's highest concurrent player count on Steam is 24,594, reached in May 2017.
Is Prey good? What do Steam reviews say?: 90% of 37,987 Steam user reviews are positive (Very Positive).
How much does Prey cost on Steam?: Prey costs $29.99 on Steam (US). The lowest price we've recorded is $2.40.
Does Prey work on Steam Deck?: Prey is Verified for Steam Deck, according to Valve's Steam Deck compatibility check.

Live data from Steam, tracked by SteamPlayerBase.

Store info

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.

Developer: Arkane Studios
Publisher: Bethesda Softworks
Release date: May 4, 2017
Install size: 20 GB minimum
Platforms: Windows
Genres: Action, Adventure · All
Steam app ID: 480490

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