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The Day Before has gone down as a monumental disaster, unable to match the likes of DayZ. Speaking of DayZ, the Soviet-inspired, zombie apocalypse game continues to be a shining beacon in the genre, with the developer acknowledging its success. In a recent post on Twitter/X, Bohemia Interactive posted a statement that looks back at the history of DayZ since its journey began in 2013. The statement talks about the “boundless efforts, resources, and man-hours” that have been poured into the game and how, ten years later,…

Game developer Fntastic has officially announced that it is shutting down the zombie shooter game “The Day Before '' four days after launching it. The title was launched on December 7 on Steam. The developer took to social media platform X to post the company’s official statement. In this statement, Fntastic said that it is closing the title as the $40 game “has failed financially” and users who have already bought the game will be refunded. According to a report by PC Gamer, within this period The Day Before has sold…

The Day Before, once Steam's most wish-listed open-world survival MMO, has been delisted from Valve's platform. The game launched in early access to an almost immediate flood of negative reviews last week, with most players claiming that it wasn't really an MMO but an extraction shooter reminiscent of Escape from Tarkov, combined with the post-apocalyptic threats of The Last of Us. The misleading gameplay claims were made worse by several game-breaking glitches that caused characters to clip off from the map, an…

The Day Before was a much-hyped zombie shooter game which, after multiple delays, launched on Steam on December 7th, only to be widely criticized for failing to deliver an MMO (massively multiplayer online) experience as advertised, let alone its bugginess, lack of originality and seemingly intentional slow in-game progress. Four days later, Fntastic, the studio behind this controversial title, abruptly announced its closure as this $40 game "has failed financially," despite having apparently sold over 200,000 copies…

It has been four days since the launch of the much, much-aligned zombie shooter The Day Before. Today, the developer, Fntastic, has announced it’s closing its doors. Fntastic took to Twitter to formally declare what some folks may have already seen coming. The studio behind The Day Before writes that the game “has failed financially,” and that it “lacks the funds” to keep the rapidly sinking ship afloat. Fntastic claims in the note that it will use the income received from game sales to pay off debts to its partners.…

Fntastic, the developer behind the controversial and much-derided postapocalyptic shooter The Day Before, announced it is shutting down just four days after the game’s launch. Fntastic “Today, we announce the closure of Fntastic Studio. Unfortunately, The Day Before has failed financially, and we lack the funds to continue. All income received is being used to pay off debts to our partners,” a message posted to Fntastic’s X account and website states. “We invested all our efforts, resources, and man-hours into the…

Fntastic has announced that its controversial upcoming survival game The Day Before is getting a beta, and promises it will return to Steam.As reported by PCGamesN, The Day Before developer Fntastic has shared the news of a beta in the game's Discord. Despite currently being delisted from Steam, the beta will apparently take place in 2023, and Fntastic says the game "should be on Steam." In a message to members of the Discord, administrator "Kentain" wrote, "We understand that many of you have been…

The Day Before, one of Steam's most-wishlisted open-world survival MMOs, got pulled from Valve's storefront earlier this week. The game's disappearance from the shop has been attributed to a trademark dispute, which developer Fntastic claims has caused Steam to block their game page, leading to yet another delay in release. Now, amidst internet chatter questioning whether the game even exists, the developer has come out and claimed it planned to delay the game even before the trademark dispute surfaced. In a statement to…