Prey now has a coop mod letting up to 16 players loose on Talos 1

A new mod called Prey Coop lets up to 16 players explore Arkane's Talos 1 space station together — turning one of the best solo immersive sims into a full cooperative experience. The mod is available now on Nexus Mods, though it's still in Alpha.

Prey Coop was built by modder null234 and syncs global campaign progression, story choices, enemy AI, inventory, doors, hazards, and world physics across all connected clients. The entire campaign is playable from start to finish on both new and existing saves. That said, null234 flags visual rough edges, animation quirks, and potential bugs as known issues still being ironed out. To get it running, you'll also need to install Chairloader, forward the right ports, and make sure every player has a legitimate copy of Prey and the same DLL build of the mod.

Prey — Arkane's 2017 sci-fi immersive sim set aboard a hijacked space station — has always been a methodical, cerebral solo experience, a sharp contrast to the flashier Dishonored series. The game encourages creative use of gadgets and powers to outmaneuver the Typhon aliens rather than fight them head-on, which actually translates surprisingly well to co-op: coordinating traps, splitting objectives, and solving the Typhon as puzzles together sounds like a genuinely compelling way to revisit Talos 1. Sixteen players is probably chaos, but a two-player run with the difficulty cranked up could be the ideal way to experience it.

For anyone who hasn't played Prey yet, this mod is as good an excuse as any. Full setup instructions are linked alongside the Nexus Mods download.