Prey: How to Get All Endings and What They Mean

A Mind Without Limits

How to Get All Endings in Prey

The following guide will contain spoilers for Prey and its endings since it’s nearly impossible to guide them without providing some information to the plot. If you wish to experience the game for yourself, please turn back now. If you just have to know how to get things done, continue on. Also, the endings are different in this game when compared to others. Some are story endings, but there are also sequences and choices after the credits. We’ll cover story first, then jump into the post credits. Do note that saving people or not saving them affects only the post credit sequences, they have no bearing on what happens during the story prior to the credits. 

As you play through Prey, you will constantly be told that the only way to do things is to destroy everything – the Typhon, Talos-1, even yourself. Fortunately enough, there’s a way around that, requiring that you only destroy the Typhon for one of the endings. It’s not easy though, as you’ll need to avoid a very powerful enemy, as well as kill a “friend,” but it’s not incredibly difficult either.

Progress through the game until you meet up with Alex and he hands over the Prototype Nullwave Transmitter fabrication plan. You’ll need this to kill the Typhon. A large alien known as the Apex Typhon will attack the space station. At this point you can deal with Alex as you see fit (save or kill), but it honestly has no effect on the ending, so do as you please. Just head to the nearest fabricator and create the item you just got the plans for. Once you do that, it’s time to head back to Psychotronics, all the way near the beginning of the game.

Your target destination is the containment chamber. Head through Psychotronics and near the entrance to GUTS is a hatch leading to Containment. You’ll have to deal with a lot of powerful enemies in order to get to the location where you install the prototype. There will be a sphere in the center of a low gravity room that you need to access, do so then start heading towards the Command Deck. You’ll meet either January or Alex here (Alex will only appear if you saved him before). If January is present you’ll have to destroy it, as it was programmed to help you destroy everything to save earth and will try to stop you. Once that’s out of the way, activate the transmitter to destroy the Apex Typhon along with all the little Typhon (we use the term little relatively) that are on the ship with you.

Now all of the humans, including yourself, and the station is still alive and well. People will be able to return here and learned what happened, perhaps you’ll even be able to continue your research later on. The other endings aren’t as kind to the station and the people aboard it. 

Perdition

How to Get All Endings in Prey

This is the ending that Morgan Yu and January originally had planned. When you’re first able to fully watch the recording Morgan leaves behind as a reminder, it’s revealed that the only way to save anything and anyone is to completely destroy the space station and everyone on it. This is because due to the research that was going on it’s believed that there’s a chance the Typhon are now a part of everyone involved. This ending starts in the same place as the “A Mind Without Limits” one. The main difference is that when the Apex Typhon attacks, you’ll want to knock out or kill Alex and loot him for the the Arming Key. You can choose to save him by dragging him to the bunker, or leave him there, the choice is yours. Now head towards the Power Plant.

Inside of the Power Plant are two Technopaths, deal with them then head to the ground floor where you’ll be led to an access panel that opens the hatch to the self-destruct console. Insert Morgan’s key in the left and Alex’s in the right, then activate them. When that’s done, head to the Bridge then make your way up to the Captain’s Loft to actually initiate the sequence (triggering an eight-minute timer), now there are three possible ways this ends:

You die – You can stay aboard the station to get the most grim of the endings. You’ll die along with the station and everything aboard. If you happened to save Alex he’ll be there with you, a family that researches aliens together dies together. There’s no way to convince him to escape either.

Escape on your own – If you obtained the key to Alex’s escape pod you can escape in it. It’s located at the top of the Arboretum. Just fly towards it (the gravity is now off due to damage), close the hatch behind you, and trigger the launch.

Escape with the survivors – Depending on how you played, this can be the happiest of the endings, or the most awkward. You’ll have to move fast since you’re on a timer, though. Head on to the Shuttle Bay in the Main Lobby where there are a lot of Typhon enemies, then head over to Dahl’s shuttle. All the people you saved will be on board, or it will just be Dahl waiting on his own. Head to the cockpit and take a seat to blast off.

The last of the endings in Prey are for those who just can’t deal with the nightmare anymore. 

 Abandon Ship

How to Get All Endings in Prey

Early on in the game you are given the optional objective of heading to Alex’s suite in Crew Quarters and retrieving his escape pod key. If you went and did that, then you’re able to get the most scumbag of the endings. You can actually flee all of your responsibilities and leave the Typhon and surviving humans to fend for themselves.

Once you’re able to access Alex’s pod, just do so. January will try to talk you out of it, but you can just keep going and initiate the escape system. Even your brother will try to give you some guilt. However, you can still just blast off. The ending is interesting, though, as it shows that the threat wasn’t actually real. You can hear Alex saying “we failed, this isn’t the one,” and a woman’s voice saying to “start over.” You’ve failed the test. 

Post-Credit Scene One (Be Nice)

You may not have known this, but while playing you were graded on how kind and helpful you were to those around you. With all of the chaos and death surrounding the events of Prey it would’ve been easy to just kill everything that moved and focus solely on surviving and escaping. However, when all is said and done, you awake to see Alex alongside some Operators.

Depending on what you’ve done they’ll comment on your actions whether that included using certain types of Neuromods, saving certain people, and going on certain quests.

When you look down, it’s clear to see that you aren’t human at all, but rather a Typhon yourself. You were being tested to see if you could be used to good, and learn how to be a member of everyone. The whole test was based on Morgan’s actual memories. He wasn’t able to save the world, but this experiment was to see if maybe, just maybe, humans and Typhon can work together to save everyone.

Of course, there’s still a choice to be made. You can kill everyone or decide to be that link between humanity and Typhon life, hopefully leading to a better tomorrow. 

Post-Credit Scene Two (Kill Them All)

How to Get All Endings in Prey

Everything here is pretty much the same as the other post-credit scene. Still, your choices throughout the game are discussed. However, the difference here is the choice you make after hearing what each of the Operators and Alex has to say. In the end, no matter how good you were, you can opt to just slay everyone in the room. You’ll witness how Alex Yu is brutally murdered by the tendrils extending from your body.

The Typhon that you are went through the test just to survive and finally truly escape. They Typhon can never bet trusted, no matter what that test shows. They are monsters, through and through.

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