PREY (Reboot) - 1st Playthrough - Survival or not?

I tried on hard and it was just shit, it wasn't challenging, it was just a massive pain to play, after 40 minutes or an hour I gave up and stopped playing.

I play all fps games on the hardest difficulties they come in but Prey was different because of the horror element, it makes it TO much...
Just my opinion but yeah...

I haven't tried Survival, so take this with a grain of salt (though I did play Mooncrash), but I'd recommend starting the game with regular difficulty just to get the hang of key mechanics, and then you can easily restart it on hard plus whatever options and self-limitations you deem necessary.

Glad to see you like SS1, people seem to forget about it these days (some even think BioShock is anywhere close — I wouldn't even put it in the same genre), and I found that navigating spaces in Prey reminded me of the System Shock 1 the most, there's an incredible freedom of movement. It's a great game (Mooncrash is awesome too).

do some of the modifiers like traumas (adds a new layer to immersion) and weapon degradation if you are into that but i wouldnt recommend the oxygen leaks as it will stifle exploration and just be an annoyance. raising difficulty in general is also something i wouldnt recomend. It is plenty tough on its own and the difficulty curve starts out difficult and get slightly easier

Enemies kind of respawn. Each time more powerful type, till all are available. So it's not possible to have "safe zone".

It takes few shotgun rounds to kill bigger enemies on easy. It is harder on normal, not to mention hard. Plus ammo is scarce, you deal less damage and enemies do more. There is limited number of resources in game, so it's not possible to make infinite amount of ammo or medkits. So I would also not recommend starting on hard.

You can always beat game on normal, and start new game+ on hard or nightmare with modifiers. Or if you'd play Prey as Alien: Isolation - sneak game where enemies are to be avoided at all cost. It is not that hard after you invest enough into sneak and learn map.

I found Hard to be perfectly doable. Just keep in mind that evading enemies is a perfectly valid option, especially early in the game.

The Survival options are harsh. You will learn to avoid direct confrontations if you have those active.

Hard was cool but anything above that is terribly unbalanced.