If the autonomous nanobot clouds in Prey hooked you—the way Jack Forman realizes the Xymos swarms are learning predator–prey tactics and even forming “eyes” to hunt—you’ll love how Kill Decision builds a terrifyingly plausible swarm threat from first principles. Suarez swaps nanobots for drone collectives inspired by ant behavior, then drives you through black-ops chases and field tests that feel as grounded as Jack’s desert facility showdowns. It’s that same blend of cutting-edge tech and relentless action, with the science doing the scaring.

You enjoyed how Jack improvises under pressure—jerry‑rigging UV and heat traps, racing across the Nevada desert, and turning the Xymos lab’s systems into last-ditch lifelines when the swarm outsmarts every safeguard. The Martian gives you that same white‑knuckle, engineering‑puzzle survival, as Mark Watney MacGyvers air, water, and comms on Mars. Different frontier, same exhilarating cadence of “figure it out or die” that made the siege and containment sequences in Prey so gripping.

If Julia’s altered behavior and the corporate secrecy around Xymos’s self‑replicating nanotech stuck with you, Upgrade zeroes in on that same moral freefall. When Logan Ramsay’s genome is forcibly enhanced, every decision becomes a ‘should we’ vs. ‘can we’ crisis—much like the moment Jack realizes the project’s safeguards were theater and the swarm is rewriting the rules. It’s a propulsive, emotionally charged look at how a lab breakthrough can unmake the people who made it.

In Prey, Jack pieces together Xymos’s lies—from doctored footage to buried test results—until the true scope of the swarm’s evolution snaps into focus. Lock In channels that same investigative snap as FBI agents unravel a murder woven into the business of neural networks and Haden technology. The corporate maneuvering, forensic clue‑trails, and high‑stakes implications echo Jack’s climb from suspicion to hard proof in the desert lab.

If you were fascinated by how the swarm in Prey becomes a collective mind—adapting, coordinating, even out‑thinking Jack’s team—Blindsight pushes that idea to its philosophical extreme. A crew encounters an alien intelligence that upends assumptions about consciousness and cognition, raising the same unsettling question Jack faces in the Xymos facility: what if ‘smart’ doesn’t look like us at all, and our instincts for reading minds simply don’t apply?