The Day Before will be shutting down in January, less than two months after its disastrous launch.
07.12.2023 - 21:13 / ign.com
After launching nearly three months ago in early access, Skybound Games and Other Ocean Interactive announced that they're stopping the development of The Walking Dead: Betrayal, with the project set to be removed from Steam early next week.
In a new blog post, Skybound Games revealed that The Walking Dead: Betrayal will be delisted on Steam on December 1. By December 15, the game will be shut down completely. Those who purchased the game will be able to receive a full refund with updates confirmed to be published on both Steam and the official TWD: Betrayal Discord server.
"Despite the hard work put into the game, we were not able to find a path to build the spirited community of backstabbers we originally envisioned," Skybound Games wrote in the blog post.
Announced during San Diego Comic-Con this past July, The Walking Dead: Betrayal is a multiplayer game where up to eight survivors fend off the undead. Social deception and survival were the big focuses in The Walking Dead: Betrayal, where players could decide whether or not they wanted to deceive the other survivors or work with them to survive the apocalypse.
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The Day Before will be shutting down in January, less than two months after its disastrous launch.
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Update — Publisher Mytona has posted an update on The Day Before situation, pledging to work with Steam to open up refunds to any players who choose to do so.
Update, 12/12/23:
Fntastic is shutting down. This comes just days after the launch of its most recent game, The Day Before, which has been met with overwhelmingly negative reviews from fans and critics alike.
After finally releasing The Day Before on Steam Early Access roughly four days ago, developer Fntastic has announced its closure.
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, the studio behind The Day Before, is shutting down. It announced the closure today with a statement that arrives just four days after the The Day Before launched into Early Access on December 7.
The Day Before developer Fntastic has shut down one week after the game’s Early Access launch, the company announced, citing the game’s financial failure as reason for the closure.