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Ooohhh there are two preys - the release date of the newer one always felt off to me because I played the original back then. Are they related?
No relation between them. Literally zero, aside from the name. The Prey from 2017 is only called that for marketing reasons.
Unfortunately not. Actually there's a pretty frustrating thread running through Prey. Zenimax / Bethesda Studios got the rights to the name in 2009.
In 2011 there was going to be a "real" sequel set in the same universe that still managed to have nothing to do with the original. It was one of the first games I got really hyped for. Big shock, it got stuck in development hell and got scrapped. (Side note, I love how in 2011 every video game was acting like what's now basic quality-of-life movement stuff was revolutionary.)
...Then ZeniMax / Bethesda bought Arkane Studios, and after Dishonored 2, they wanted to make the next game in the System Shock / BioShock / (DeusEx?) immersive sim spiritual successor soup, and they wanted it closer to System Shock than anything else had been. They considered the names Typhon and Starseed. A lot of people are convinced it should've been called Neuroshock. Zenimax, though, some suit at Zenimax decided it was too risky as a new thing and reached for the nearest sci-fi names they had access to. So regardless of what Arkane wanted, it was called Prey.