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The Day Before servers have official been shut down, putting an end to Fntastic's zombie survival title. After a highly controversial launch, it was announced last month that The Day Before would be shutting down its servers on January 22, 2024.

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While a “certain someone” wanted nothing more than to praise 2023 for its “gaming excellence,” people who actually lived and worked during that period know that it was hardly flawless. One of the biggest issues is that the games released that year had a huge pendulum swing when it came to quality. Plenty of titles were “Game of the Year worthy,” and then there were titles that made people wonder why they came out. One such title that helped end the year was The Day Before, a game so bad that its studio shut it down in just two months.

You might have thought the The Day Before's sorry saga had ended last year when developer Fntastic, amid claims of misleading marketing and Overwhelmingly Negative Steam reviews, yanked the game from sale and promptly shut its doors just four days into its early access launch. But no, the studio has now reemerged with a lengthy statement blaming the whole thing on a «hate campaign» orchestrated by «certain bloggers».

Fntastic, the folks behind the debilitating 'open world zombie MMO' The Day Before, have released a statement to combat "misinformation" about its development and catastrophic release. They claim certain "bloggers" made huge money by creating "false content" about the game, and that its closure is thanks largely to a hate campaign that inflicted "significant damage". Bizarrely, they also believe they "implemented everything shown in the trailers". Riiight.

The Day Before attracted widespread skepticism in the lead-up to its ill-fated launch, and upon release, the game proved all of its doubters concretely right. From lacking content to being a technical mess to being poorly made and not even being the kind of game it had been marketed as, the shooter was widely panned by critics and audiences instantly upon release.

The Day Before developer Fntastic has asserted that the game's lackluster reception and untimely demise were both the fault of a «hate campaign» not rooted in reality. Its claims arrived mere days after The Day Before servers were shut down, leaving the game in the annals of history for all the wrong reasons.

Fntastic’s The Day Before is finally dead. After a controversial launch and being pulled from sale (publisher MyTona worked with Steam to offer full refunds), the servers have officially shut down as of January 22nd. Shout out to the one person who kept logging in daily since December 28th, per SteamDB.

In the wake of the controversial development, release, and take down of The Day Before, upcoming survival game Palworld has an interesting note in its FAQ section, where developer Pocketpair is insistent that the game is not a scam.

This year’s most infamous video game, The Day Before , will see a timely and expected end on January 22nd, 2024. 

What has been a bizarre development and release saga for The Day Before is coming to an end, after it has been announced by Mytona that the game will shutdown on January 22nd. The Day Before was billed as an open world survival MMO, but the actual released game was far from what was expected, receiving overwhelmingly negative reviews. The game was released on December 7th, yet a few days later developer Fntastic closed its doors.

The Day Before, once Steam’s most wishlisted game before experiencing a bizarre journey through multiple delays, accusations of being a scam, apparent legal disputes and a catastrophic Early Access launch, will shut down its servers in one month. The effective end to the game will accompany refunds for anyone who brought it on Steam.

With developer Fntastic ceasing operations just days after The Day Before’s release, publisher MyTona has announced that servers are shutting down on January 22nd, 2024.

Game development disaster The Day Before will go dark forever on 22nd January 2024.

Considering all the controversy surrounding zombie shooter The Day Before, it should be no surprise that the game has earned a certain level of notoriety. As caught by Kotaku, while the game is no longer available to purchase on Steam, those curious about the title can buy Steam keys for The Day Before from unauthorised third-party resellers.

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Each week, we scour the internet for all things indie MMO-related, so you don’t have to. This week, The Day Before had the worst launch of all time, Eterspire released on Android (image above), and Once Human made a splash on Steam. Plenty of other stuff is also going on, so let’s quit wasting time and get started with this week’s Indie MMO Spotlight.

The strange situation that is The Day Before keeps getting stranger.

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 incomplete and sparse world devoid of action, and inconsistent online features. Merely five days after release, the game is no longer available to buy on Steam and Fntastic, the studio behind the game, has announced it is shutting down and working on refunds for customers who bought the game.

After years of delays, overpromising, obfuscated skepticism, and a healthy dose of all around skepticism within the community, The Day Before finally launched in early access last week, and instantly, the game was met with widespread negative reception from players. Things only got worse from there, because just four days after the game’s release, developer Fntastic announced in a statement that the game had failed financially, and that the studio was, as such, shutting down.

Mytona, the publisher of disastrous zombie MMO The Day Before, has issued an apology for the game and will work with Steam to open refunds.

Fntastic, the developer behind controversial Steam Early Access launch The Day Before, has shut down with immediate effect.

[UPDATE 1:50PM PT] After news that Fntastic was shutting down following the disastrous launch of The Day Before, it appears you can no longer purchase it on Steam, according to industry insider Wario64.

After finally releasing The Day Before on Steam Early Access roughly four days ago, developer Fntastic has announced its closure.

The Day Before has «failed financially,» studio Fntastic says in a statement.

Less than a week after The Day Before’s disastrous launch on PC, following multiple delays and becoming the most wishlisted game on Steam, the makers of the zombie-survival shooter have announced their closure.

In what I think is the biggest blunder in video game history, The Day Before developers, FNTASTIC, are shutting down. This has been confirmed through an official statement from FNTASTIC themselves, and honestly, I’m shocked but not surprised.

I was there. Long before The Day Before ,  I was there. I was there when the H1Z1 virus hit, and it wasn't good. I was there when so many were lost to The Walking Dead: Survival Instincts . I gave Metal Gear Survive a chance, even after all of my friends said I shouldn’t. I survived them all in one way or another, and I never lost hope. But none of them could prepare me for The Day Before,  which before it had been out for aweek is now dead in the water.

The saga of what was once The Day Before has been put to rest. New developments have been speeding by at a mile a minute, and the developers at Fntastic have shut down the studio. Here's a recap of what's happened since the gamelaunched 4 days ago.

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.

Each week, we scour the internet for all things indie MMO-related, so you don’t have to. This week, The Day Before disappoints, Christmas events start to pop up, and Palia is headed to the Switch. Plenty of other stuff is also going on, so let’s quit wasting time and get started with this week’s Indie MMO Spotlight.

Zombie MMO The Day Before has seemingly lost three-quarters of its player base since it release to overwhelmingly bad reviews just two days ago.

Zombie MMO The Day Before is now out in early access, but is receiving overwhelmingly negative reviews on Steam.

Zombie-based survival MMO The Day Before is out as an Early Access title, and the game’s launch has been met with quite a bit of negativity from its playerbase. At the time of writing, the game is sitting at almost 11,000 player reviews on Steam, with an overall rating of Overwhelmingly Negative.

Zombie survival "MMO" The Day Before has brought us one of the weirdest game development sagas of 2023. Developed by Fntastic, the game has been delayed numerous times, briefly disappeared from Steam after a trademark dispute, and was repeatedly accused of being a vapourware scam, accusations Fntastic attempted to rebuff with a gameplay reveal back in February.

The Day Before is here and things are not looking so great at the moment. With huge amounts of complaints, a wave of angry The Day Before players are already asking for refunds. Continue reading to know why.

The Day Before built up their Early Access launch over the past few weeks. Despite numerous delays and even a legal challenge, the developers at Fntastic persevered, and now that Early Access is live, the veil has dropped and we’re now starting to see exactly what we expected. A game that was released to the public far too early.

Tomorrow, players will finally be able to check out The Day Before when it opens in Early Access. 

When it was announced back in January of 2021, The Day Before’s eye-catching reveal trailer and lofty promises certainly turned a fair few heads, but the months that followed were marked by numerous delays, poor communication from developer Fntastic, and a general perception of overpromising, which, as you might expect, has led to plenty of widespread skepticism where the game and its prospects are concerned.

Fntastic, developer of zombie MMO The Day Before, has apologised for its marketing ahead of the game's release later this week.

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The entire year of 2023 has been a huge one for video games with an almost daily influx of incredible new games covering all genres and platforms for anyone to enjoy. December slows things down a little but still has some incredible titles launching, such as the heavily wishlisted survival horror game, , arriving early in the month. Meanwhile, is coming out of early access for a full release, and the DLC adds some anticipated new content.

One of Steam's most wishlisted games of the past few years, , is finally due for release next week. has been in development since at least 2021, but considering the content of its announcement that year, it's probably been in the works much longer. That very first trailer was significant enough to garner tons of hype, winninga spot on many a prospective player's wishlist.

Survival MMO The Day Before is fast approaching its new launch date of December 7th, with the team at Fntastic confirming when players can jump into the game in their respective regions.

Each week, we scour the internet for all things indie MMO-related, so you don’t have to. This week, Cinderstone Online (image above) shut down its servers, The Day Before takes another step into the land of the bizarre, and Ilysia entices you with improved graphics on the Quest 3. The topic of indie MMO development also came up in the first part of Philip Harker’s series about making an MMO. Plenty of other stuff is also going on, so let’s quit wasting time and get started with this week’s Indie MMO Spotlight. 

Each week, we scour the internet for all things indie MMO-related, so you don’t have to. This week, Gloria Victis waves goodbye, The Day Before returns to Steam, and Book of Travels (image above) celebrates two years in Early Access. Plenty of other stuff is also going on, so let’s quit wasting time and get started with this week’s Indie MMO Spotlight.

The Day Before is now dated for a December 7th Early Access, and according to a new report, the previously-announced beta test will be open only to “volunteers” that work on the game.

MyTona and Fntastic’s The Day Before has attracted its fair share of controversy thanks to its numerous delays and what many have deemed to be unrealistic promises by the developer, but it seems like the open world survival title is finally read to launch- with some caveats.

The Day Before, the post-apocalyptic survival MMO, has seen yet another delay, this time with Fntastic delaying the game till December 7th.

Publisher MyTona and developer Fntastic have delayed the PC (Steam) version open-world survival massively multiplayer online game The Day Before from its previously planned November 10 release date to December 7, as well as announced that it will launch as an Early Access release for $39.99. The price will change to $49.99 for the full release.

The Day Before has had a rough couple of years ever since it was announced back in 2021. So rough that some have suggested that it might not actually exist. To reassure the skeptical, developer FNTASTIC just released a new gameplay trailer for The Day Before that includes a December release date.

It’s been a while since we heard from Fntastic about The Day Before after a series of unfortunate events that led to the game being delisted from Steam. In a recent Discord post, the community team teased the next and final gameplay trailer that will drop ahead of the game’s launch.

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Fntastic and MyTona’s upcoming post-apocalyptic open world MMO The Day Before has been something of a magnet for controversy and skepticism for a while now, and has also had its release help up for several reasons, one of them being that its name is at the centre of a trademark dispute.

There is no shortage of video games fans are looking forward to playing this year. It’s been filled with incredible games, and the remaining few months of this year also have quite a stacked lineup. But for those who have been waiting on The Day Before, it’s been rather quiet. The developers have been going through their own hoops and obstacles to see their survival game launch into the marketplace. However, a series of delays have forced this game further into the tail end of 2023. 

The developer behind upcoming zombie MMO The Day Before has filed a new trademark for something known as Dayworld, suggesting a name change is in the pipeline.

A name change could be in store for mysterious MMO The Day Before, as it attempts to resolve its trademark dispute - though this could in fact to lead to another trademark dispute.

 Things have not gone very well for The Day Before, the once-second-most-wishlisted game on Steam. After two years of weird delays and a near-complete dearth of gameplay footage, the whole thing was muscled off Steam (and the rest of the internet) by a copyright dispute with the maker of a calendar app called TheDayBefore. Developer Fntastic vowed that a triumphant return was in the offing, and despite a certain air of sketchiness to the whole thing, it looks like it might actually happen—under a different name.

The Day Before, Fntastic’s zombie survival MMORPG, was pulled from Steam due to trademark issues surrounding its title. Now, after several months away from the platform, it appears that the developer is prepared to rename the game and has filed a trademark application for a new title.