Halfway through SOMA now, and I really love the story!
I constantly want to know what will happen next, and learn more about what's happening.
More so than in most other games I've played.

Yeah, SOMA is supposed to be a real masterpiece that everyone loves, so maybe not surprising.

But how does Prey hold up in comparison, for those who played both games?
Is it similarly interresting and thrilling and always something exciting happening, or does it drag on and story is so so and you mostly play it for the challenge only?
Are there much dialogue in it, even if over radio, or are you mostly isolated and alone?

70% sale now, might be worth it either way maybe, for this price...

Very late to the party here I see.
Personally I liked Prey more than SOMA, but that may be because they are two very VERY different games.

SOMA, to me anyway, was much more a walking sim posing philosophical questions for you to ponder while taking you through a very well designed world.

Prey on the other hand has a really well designed world with great System Shock like gameplay. But apart from trying to poke you with a twist ending, and some logs about the ethics of what went on on Talos, I didn't find it all that thought provoking.
Just a very enjoyable game with a great world to explore (As most all of Arkanes previous offerings)

I really enjoyed both. I'm about to focus more on the feel of the games there since I mostly agree with DrakeFox.

SOMA is more thematically mature (and an excellent exploration of its topics, I worked on these for a master thesis and probably would have quoted/used this game if I had played it). The whole experience has a thematic and artistic coherence that's above most I've played (and above quite a few in other medias as well). So yeah, the bar is set very high. Still, it's very much a guided experience relying on very well crafted but quite well-known gameplay mechanics.

Prey has very interesting takes on somewhat similar themes, but handles them very differently, in a much more systemic way. It's like being thrown in a wider and very believable environment, getting your bearings and at the same time uncovering layers of small narrative touches, with some important story beats and choices (not all obvious) along the way. It has a bit of the usual 'weaknesses' from Arkane: the story itself is a bit weaker than expected due to the open-ended approach which, if played in a action-ish way, remains quite thin all along. Still, it has a 'texture' that you can only get with a gameplay such as this one. It feels like 'emerging' situations, rather than story-tied ones. Its stronger to me than Dishonored as far as nuances go, and depending on your investment and play style, can create some very startling emotional moments.

Both games remain as very strong game (and even non-game) experiences to me.
Oh, and Prey's space sequences are as evocative as SOMA's deep-sea ones. Excellent work on sensations from designers there.

no comparison, played both. SOMA is very terrifying setting/ambience with a very deep story and incredibly sci-fi. Prey is more a FPS action game in space and you need to kill aliens. Prey has enough story to make the fps game not boring mindless shoot anything that moves type game but no where close to SOMA. SOMA made me almost s**t the bed more than a few times, Prey has yet to even make me jump. Prey is a fun game but not on SOMA's level.

Yes I am replying to a 2 year old post. Personally I found SOMA to be really boring and not scary, I don't know what people see in it. I wrote a review on Prey.