For any collector.
https://www.kinguin.net/category/14608/prey-2006-steam-cd-key/ (current lowest price 1,80 euro, can google some 5-7% coupon codes but might disable some payment options, and it's just a few cents.
https://www.g2a.com/nl-nl/prey-2006-steam-key-global-i10000035423002
https://www.gamivo.com/product/prey

Better to turn off those protection things, but it's up to you.

On xbox full for $2 (but i don't have that, so i don't know the details).

https://steamdb.info/sub/217/

This still applies too.
https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/A08Ex/the-amazing-spider-man-1-and-2-removed-games-cheaply-on-kinguin-plays-fine-in-nl

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Thanks for the headsup! :) Prey was a nice experience and deserves a place in my steam-collection.

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Very good game indeed. It's a must to play this game for who not play it until now.

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Wait, you buy games to actually play them?...

What kind psycho are you?!?

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+1

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+1
really sad that the actual sequel didnt happen

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Those are way too suspiciously low prices. There are what, dozens of actually working Steam keys in existence left for this? We haven't seen a new unused CD pop up for Prey for around three years now.

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I have no idea, i bought a copy on kinguin and that one worked atleast. To be honest i didn't even hear about the game before, but i read (2006) and seriously an inner voice said removed game.. i checked and apparently it was.

On g2a they selling too, but for 3 euro.

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Nah, it is not unusual. Prey 2006 has going less than $5 for months now, almost a year. Three or four months ago it was about $1.5 on Kinguin.

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At one time, you could get a copy of the game on eBay for slightly less than $100.00.

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The 1C edition and sealed copies still goes for $100 on eBay though.

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Every retail key (from physical, boxed copies) from this game activates on Steam.
They do not look like normal Steam keys.

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My key looked like xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx xx

Apparently from that key form they couldn't make more keys and that's why they removed it from steam, and changing the keys was for some reason too difficult.

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Mine, from Gamivo, was 18 characters long, without spaces. $2,82, June 10th this year.

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These keys actually work with the space and without it.

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Nah, probably usual licensing deals - IP belongs to Bethesda, but game belongs to someone else (Take-Two?). It's not like they can't create new cd-keys with new format.

Or, Bethesda just don't want to pay any further money to Human Head Studios who were the final developers - there's quite a history between them due to Prey 2.

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Yeah this. Myth comes from being discounted very low before like a day before 2K's licensing deal ended, unfortunately keys ran out and they didn't have time to restock keys and instead replaced sale with other game (Bioshock maybe).

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Many thanks for this info.

6 years ago
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I bought a copy from G2A 10 months ago. I think it was around $3. Key worked and the game is still on my account, I played it a few months ago.

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I beg to differ. For at least one year I have seen those keys around for around $5, not exclusively on the grey market, but also on ebay and such. Me, I bought a working physical copy for €5 from ebay in 2016.

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Since the game has not been in circulation for years, I can only think that someone managed to find a shipment of unused DVDs and now they are selling them before the boss of the store finds out. :D

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They seem to have printed a silly amount of copies for this game at least. Just a few years ago, I got my sealed copy of the game for ~1,5€.

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Reprinted. We do not remember now, but it was a large hit, despite its ridiculous delays. But it was not handled well.
Still, as I said, it has been years since I heard about a new stock popping up.

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Yeah, sure, it received several print runs. My copy is of a later one, but it seems like they overestimated the demand of it towards the end. I've not really been following things for this game recently, but it would not surprise me if there are at least stores out there that have stock left over. I just found a local (Swedish) store that has at least one copy left for 120 SEK (~12€).

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Thank you, it's one of my favourite FPS ever :D

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have you played Arkane one?

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I didn't, but I watched a friend play it for a little over 1h. There's too much crafting and no native american mystical powers and no puzzles either.
I might still try it at some point, but I'm not too interested in this new Prey, if I'm being completely honest.

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There's also no jukebox.

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If you want to play the complete game with 9 addons free, get it on the Xbox console. I bought the game last Nov. for only $1.99 over there and got the dlcs for free as well.

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What dlc? For the Prey(2006) game?

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Yes. The Xbox version includes free DLC which is not available on steam anymore I believe, adding extra multiplayer maps(Tunnel Rat, Topillogical, Space Oddity and Gravity Labs) and characters(Jen, Hunter, Elhuit, Elite and Becky).

https://www.giantbomb.com/prey/3030-16372/dlc/

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Oh, well that is disappointing that we can't get them on Steam.

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An Xbox One X is a good supplementary platform to have in addition to your PC. You get to play Red Dead Redemption 1(not available on PC) and Witcher 2 enhanced in 4K despite being older games not to mention exclusives such as Halo Master Chief Collection, Sunset Overdrive, Too Human, Saints Row 1, Project Gotham Racing, Recore, Fable 2, Forza Horizon 2, earlier Forza Motorsport games, Crackdown 1 and 2, and japanese rpgs like Lost Odyssey, Blue Dragon, Infinite Undiscovery, etc. Many games and dlcs pulled from steam are still available on Xbox and servers that no longer exist on PC are also still available, with generally stronger player bases in most games.

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And also buy the newest smartphone to use it for emulation!

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I don't have an xbox, but thank you so much for the suggestion :)

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Bought it, worked :V (Portugal)
https://gyazo.com/a5b497e8f22c8056a5146afcf1445bb7

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With a strange key GC?AHHL?3CCG?G7W F9

Never seen any like this

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Its a really old key :V

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Old? Initial release date: May 5, 2017

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Prey 2006, not 2017.

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Oh my bad, sorry already drunk. Thanks.

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It was clearly mentioned… :p

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If you have an Xbox console, they have sold Prey on sale for as low as $1.99. That is what I paid for it last November. You just have to wait for the right time.
The nice thing about the Xbox version is that it includes free DLC which is not available on steam anymore I believe, adding extra multiplayer maps(Tunnel Rat, Topillogical, Space Oddity and Gravity Labs) and characters(Jen, Hunter, Elhuit, Elite and Becky).

So to get the complete game and play online with others, get it on Xbox.

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I bought it on Gamivo a few months ago: Prey

Pretty cheap there too.

Edit: I bought it 2018-03-30 :)

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It's been cheap for a long time now. I considered buying it, but I watched some gameplay videos and it just seems meh.

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I finished it early this year (or late last year) and yes, it's meh-ish.

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I recommend you to play it, you will hate Bethesda after. (the game is not bad, it's because what Bethesda has done)

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lol

6 years ago
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But it's already easy to hate them for everything they done. :p

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Looks like it may be a fun play, but I have to really be into the game/price for me to buy off the grey market (and i'm neither). I'll probably pass for now.

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And of course I get a duplicate key

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I was going to add a warning that both the Prey games can't be installed at the same time, at least not on the same drive as Steam uses games names rather than appid's for the installation directory but I've just checked SteamDB and the install directory for the older game was updated to Prey 2006 at the start of July. Only took 14 months for that to get fixed.

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Good to know. Had been under the first impression for quite a while now already and assumed it would never be fixed.

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I've bought a number of games where other countries (mostly Germany and Russia) have an entirely separate version. Being separate games I can't always just download a depot to switch the language files but it's often possible to copy the relevant files over from the ROW release so this is an issue I was familiar with before Prey.

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I actually won it here, sometime last year :D Great game and a great soundtrack.

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I wonder how safe it is to activate a key from one of these "stores" if it has been obtained illegally and it's just being resold on those sites.
Would the game just be removed from your steam account or could your account get locked permanently?

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I got mine a few years back. This games doesn't give you +1 on your number of games owned. It just sits quietly waiting to be installed and played by you.

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Your games would just be removed.

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Only the game gets removed. According to steam support they only intervene if the developer/publisher asks them to, so basically it all depends on the publisher of the given game.

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Or stuff is bought with stolen credit cards and such.

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G2a and Gamivo too, but yeah key reseller sites.

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If you have a console guys, don't buy it in the grey market. It is only $1.99 on Xbox when on sale and all the 9 dlcs are free.

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I bought one years ago for like 6 or 7 usd thinking they might run out. I can't believe it has gone that cheap, damn.

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$4.39 total with Kinguin protection via PayPal
Very strange key without dashes, but activated normally as Pray retail

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You shouldnt have gotten the kinguin protection, since you can still get support in case the key doesn't work, if im not mistaken.
Plus you just handed some cash for free to kinguin. If the key was duplicate, you could just buy another, if you didnt want to bother with kinguin support.

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higher and higher price since yeasterday...

6 years ago
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Plati.market - $2.30, bought mine there a couple months ago.

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Worked fine, thanks!

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Pretty generic FPS game (despite its unusual setting) in my opinion with the Doom 3 engine. Comes nowhere near to classics such as the original Unreal or Undying for example.
But the price is pretty good nevertheless - someone probably had a stock of old retail copies and decided it was time to sell them.

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''Comes nowhere near ...''

Bit harsh for such a well-received game, no? It doesn't quite reach the level of Clive Barker's Undying, but I felt that it was on par with Unreal as far as single player is concerned; the gameplay was tight, and Human Head's work with idtech4 was superb as well - adding gravity, portals, the ability to walk on walls even. The multiplayer part wasn't that good, true, but I don't think that was ever the focus.

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I was talking about the single player campaign of course. For me it seemed quite repetitive with a few shockers.
Interesting fact is that it was announced along with Unreal sometime around 1995 if I recall correctly and Unreal managed to come out 3 years later while Prey after several postponing and rework only in 2006. This surely had a negative impact on the game itself.

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