Our hunch was correct. After five years of so-called development, post-apocalyptic MMO ‘The Day Before’ has vanished from stores four days into release. Its studio, Fntastic, has also liquidated. All signs point to a scam.
A few hundred days late, and more than a buck short. RIP ‘The Day Before’ (Dec 2023 – Dec 2023).
So, it turns out The Day Before was actually real, it just delivered absolutely nothing that was originally promised and died four days into its ‘early access’ release along with its now defunct studio Fntastic.
Before vanishing like a fart in the wind, the development team released an announcement on Monday citing ‘financial failure’ as the apparently unforeseen fatal blow. Any income generated during the game’s woefully short lifetime is now reportedly being used to pay off debts to partners.
Those who, despite the fishiest of smells, decided to chance their hand and spend $40 on the game are now left to wander a bland, buggy mess of a world which Fntastic cannot afford to patch.
Having peaked at 38,000 concurrent players on Steam, a rapidly declining player-base currently sits at around 4,000. Ouch.
The near universally negative feedback stemming from gaming journalists and outlets – including a diabolical 1 rating on IGN – is a far cry from the lofty expectations its reveal set back in summer 2022.
From being among the most wish listed titles on Steam, to now landing itself a spot on Steam’s 10 worst reviewed games ever, The Day Before and any online presence associated with it is rapidly wiping itself from existence.
It won’t be a consolation to those who’ve already been duped, but we’re glad to say we saw and exposed the red flags back in February.
The Day Before developers just deleted every video off their YouTube channel. They are purging EVERYTHING lmao pic.twitter.com/s9OzsOJpVU
— The Act Man (@TheActMan_YT) December 12, 2023