The Day Before Permanently Shut Its Doors After Its Disastrous Launch

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 due to a trademark dispute with a Korean-made calendar app. The studio was ultimately awarded the rights to use the title roughly before its long-delayed early access launch. Launch day itself turned out to be a big disappointment with the game receiving extremely negative reviews right off the bat.

It wasn’t just one thing though, as apparently everything about it well... sucked. Nearly every player complained about numerous bugs, game crashes, and disconnection issues, not to mention its boring gameplay, unoriginal assets, and obviously unfinished state.

Fntastic was promptly flooded by refund requests and the game’s player count dropped to the low thousands just three days after its launch, which proved to be too much for the indie studio to handle. It eventually announced that it was shutting down the entire studio, saying that “shit happens” and that they’ll be leaving the servers online indefinitely. That was later changed to January 22.

The shut down date has now come and gone, and The Day Before along with it. It’s servers have officially been shut down as announced but the Steam page is still live, embarrassingly showing over 23,000 negative review for all of the internet to see.