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Image of a black man with snow flakes on his face in The Day Before artwork.
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The Day Before Studio Announces Closure Less Than a Week After Release

Well, this is happening. The Day Before development studio, Fntastic, has announced the closure of the company and effectively the survival zombie title less than a week after its early access launch on Steam. 

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On Twitter, Fntastic dropped this announcement, and gamers are already fuming and re-iterating claims that the project was a scam. Fntastic highlights the cause for the studioā€™s closure is because ā€œThe Day Before has failed financially, and [it] lack the funds to continue.ā€

ā€œWe invested all our efforts, resources, and man-hours into the development of The Day Before, which was our first huge game,ā€ Fntastic said. ā€œWe really wanted to release new patches to reveal the full potential of the game, but unfortunately, we donā€™t have the funding to continue the work.ā€

According to Fntastic, all income received from The Day Before is ā€œbeing used to pay off debts to [its] partners.ā€ The team also decided to clear up that it ā€œdidnā€™t take money from the public during the development of The Day Beforeā€ and spent five years developing the zombie game without pre-orders or crowdfunding campaigns.

As for The Day Before, Fntastic says the future of the game is ā€œunknown, but the servers will remain operational,ā€ alongside its other ongoing game called Propnight.

Related: Why People Think The Day Before Is a Scam

The announcement comes after a torrent of overwhelmingly negative reviews from players criticizing server stability, game-breaking bugs, and more. What stuck the most among players is how The Day Before didnā€™t appear to be an open world MMO, instead seeming more like an extraction-based shooter like Escape From Tarkov. The realization led to mass refunding, as recommended by mods on the gameā€™s official Steam server, and poorly reflected on Fntastic.

ā€œThis was an absolute scam from day one,ā€ stated YouTuber Bigfry, who reported on Fntasticā€™s questionable development on The Day Before previously. ā€œThis game should be de-listed from Steam and you should never be involved in the industry in ANY capacity ever again.ā€

Itā€™s unclear what exactly will happen to The Day Before following Fntastic’s closure, but itā€™s assumed it will removed from Steam following this latest development. 


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