Our latest coverage of The Day Before.
The Day Before saga continues well after the game’s closure as more information comes to light on the circumstances surrounding the zombie survival game’s epic failure. It’s a story of indecisive studio heads, unpaid work, extreme crunch culture, and just poor leadership on the part of the studio’s owners in the form of a new documentary from German video game [...]
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Just when we thought that They Day Before drama had come to an end, developer Fntastic has come out of the woodwork to defend the now-defunct game. The studio issued a statement on X to address alleged “misinformation” that’s been making its rounds on the internet following the game’s official closure earlier this week. In a now-deleted thread on X, [...]
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The Day Before is now officially “The Day That Was” as the multiplayer zombie survival game officially shuts down. The game’s closure comes just six weeks after its disastrous Steam launch that made it the butt of memes and jokes for the better part of last month. Developer Fntastic’s troubles started when the game was pulled from Steam and YouTube [...]
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The Day Before’s extremely short but infamous run is about to end next month as developer Fntastic officially ends its operations. The servers will be going offline on January 22, 2024, less than two months after the zombie survival MMO’s disastrous launch. For those who haven’t been following the game’s rocky journey, The Day Before launched on Steam on December [...]
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Bohemia Interactive and RocketWerkz are riding on the back of The Day Before’s recent rise to infamy with a cheeky sale for their respective survival games. DayZ and Icarus are both on sale at 33% off as part of a collaboration bundle called “The Day After Survival Sale Bundle.” “This limited-time offer represents a unique partnership between the publishers of [...]
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The depressing tale of The Day Before continues as developer Fntastic gets buried in refund requests following the studio’s closure yesterday. The negative reviews are also piling up on Steam, calling the game a scam and making jokes along the lines of the game launching The Day Before and closing The Day After. I know it’s in bad taste, but [...]
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Who had their money on Fntastic shutting down less than a week after The Day Before’s early access launch? The Singapore-based studio has announced its closure after the zombie survival MMO flopped big time right out of the gate due to its extremely unpolished state and its lack of content. According to the studio’s official statement, The Day Before “failed [...]
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The Day Before’s popularity has quickly fizzled out as the survival horror shooter sees a huge drop in its playerbase just three days after its early access launch. The game’s playerbase wasn’t that big to start with, peaking at 38,104 players the hour of its launch. It all went downhill from there as its concurrency numbers dropped to less than [...]
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After five years in development, multiple delays, and a trademark scuffle, The Day Before officially launched on Steam yesterday but didn’t quite receive the welcome that it was expecting. The survival horror MMO has been met with “Overwhelmingly Negative” reviews on the platform since its release and players are now clamoring for refunds. One review perfectly sums up the game’s [...]
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The Day Before developer Fntastic sets the stage for the zombie survival MMO’s launch with a bizarre post on X, formerly Twitter, that it’s calling “Revelations from Fntastic.” It’s basically a general statement to future players and haters alike, that’s delivered in a weirdly ominous tone. The statement starts off normally enough as it welcomes players to the game with [...]
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