The Prey soundtrack is out, and the track list hints at plot points

The release date for Prey draws ever closer (May 5, in fact) and the original soundtrack has been released ahead of that. It’s on all the usual music outlets (iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, Spotify). That’s the core bit of the news here. However. 

There are some interesting title in the track listing for the album:

• The Experiment by Mick Gordon
• Everything is Going to Be Okay by Mick Gordon
• Typhon Voices by Mick Gordon
• The Phantoms by Mick Gordon
• Into the Tunnels by Matt Piersall
• Human Elements by Mick Gordon
• The Truth Will Set You Free by Mick Gordon
• No Gravity by Mick Gordon
• Alex Theme by Mick Gordon
• December and January by Mick Gordon
• Nueromods by Mick Gordon
• Stranded by Ben Crossbones
• Semi Sacred Geometry by Raphael Colantonio and Matt Piersall
• Mind Game by Raphael Colantonio, Production and Electronics by Matt Piersall

Some of the tracks are recogniseable from playing the free demo (which is, by the way, still available for PS4 and Xbox One). ‘Everything Is Going To Be Okay’, for example, is the track that plays over the opening credits, and is presumably a joke, because everything is not going to be okay.

Others are more metaphorical or vague, like ‘Human Elements’ (possibly referring to protagonist Morgan Yu’s partial mimic abilities and/or all the poking around in people’s brains their company does) and ‘The Truth Will Set You Free’, which is a biblical quote. 

However, some are very specific. ‘Into The Tunnels’ suggests that, unless it refers to tunnels of the mind, Morgan will have to crawl into some tunnels (I’m thinking some kind of service tunnels on the facility, but in any case they’re likely to be full of enemies). There’s also ‘No Gravity’, and I would be more than okay with a sequence where you float around desperately trying to avoid mimics, who are also floating. 

‘Stranded’, one of the last on the tracklist, plays into a classic space/sci-fi story trope. If you go into space there’s a 1/3 chance you’re going to get stranded, possibly permanently, and an approximately 1/6 chance you did it to yourself on purpose to save humanity from a threat aboard your ship. There’s also ‘December and January’, January being the name of the AI buddy you have in the game. It’s possible that December is another AI, possibly from a previous backup of Morgan’s knowledge.

In any case, the soundtrack (mostly from Mick Gordon, who worked on last year’s Doom) is eerie enough to get you in the mood for Prey’s release.