Prey

Finished it recently and damn, what a great game.
I really dig the atmosphere here. You're completely on your own on a gaint space ship for like 90% of the game and any junk at any moment can turn into a mimic and eat your face. Great sound design helps, the eerie athmosperic soundscapes and phantoms talking to themselves in weird fucked up voices and all that.
You never feel at ease. It's just permament endless paranoia.

...and then you upgrade your weapons and neuromods and it kinda goes away, but whatever.

Finally finished it, and this time around I had a lot more fun with it. The Typhon didn't seem as intimidating as the first time and taking on tougher enemies like Technopath or Voltaic Phantom wasn't as daunting this time.

I also played it on Normal difficulty and without any of the survival options like oxygen or weapon degradation. I think it was nicely balanced at least during the middle section of the game, where I wasn't too overpowered, but tougher enemies and elemental phantoms still posed a threat. That was the balance of enjoyment and challenge that I hoped for when I first played this but maybe I made the wrong choices with difficulty. Thought I was some epic gamer to start playing on Hard.

while I see a lot of comparisons made to Bioshock and Deus Ex, I must say I enjoyed it more than Bioshock 1 or 2 by a big margin. I'm yet to play any Deus Ex game though.

You have legs 5/5

no idea how arkane is going to live up to this masterpiece (granted i've yet to play deathloop)
holy shit what an incredible game

not as similar to system shock 2 as people say it is

recently replayed it, still one of the best games i've ever played

score should really be much closer to deus ex and system shock 2