The Day Before: person with gun faces a horde of infected humans

The Day Before

Open-world survival MMO set in a post-pandemic America, where players must fight off infected humans and other players in order to survive.

Publisher Mytona

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Developer Fntastic

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Highlights

The Day Before is suddenly back on Steam, but don’t be fooled

The Day Before Steam page fake: A character from extraction shooter The Day Before

Feb 15, 2024

The Day Before only lasted 46 days, and now we know exactly why

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The Day Before parody: A character from Fntastic zombie survival game The Day Before

Jan 24, 2024

The Day Before was destroyed by a “hate campaign,” dev says

The Day Before Fntastic statement: a grizzled survival man stares into the camera

Jan 24, 2024

A month later, The Day Before is officially dead

The Day Before dead: a man with a dark beard and shoulder length black hair, wearing tactical gear

Jan 22, 2024

The Day Before still has one player logging in, a week before shutdown

The Day Before one player: a close up of a stern man in a fur collared coat with a rifle slung over his right shoulder

Jan 15, 2024

The Day Before is about to die completely, as all servers go offline

The Day Before servers shut down: A survivor from Fntastic survival game The Day Before

Dec 22, 2023

Despite everything, The Day Before still has hundreds of players

The Day Before Steam: A character from Fntastic survival game The Day Before

Dec 19, 2023

DayZ dev trolls The Day Before with big new survival game Steam sale

The Day Before Steam sale: A character from Fntastic zombie game The Day Before

Dec 15, 2023

Former The Day Before volunteer claims “everything was a lie”

The Day Before Fntastic developer: A character from zombie survival game The Day Before

Dec 12, 2023

The Day Before refunds available for all, as dev says “s**t happens”

The Day before refunds: a man in a brown leather jacket in a forest, with short dirty blonde combed hair and a scar over his left eye

Dec 12, 2023

The Day Before release date and timeline

Dec 12, 2023

The Day Before removed from sale on Steam, no updates coming

The Day Before Steam: An armored man with a helmet standing in The Day Before's hub area.

Dec 11, 2023

The Day Before’s future “is unknown” as developer announces closure

The Day Before studio closure: close-up of a heavily armed, beared man.

Dec 11, 2023

The Day Before Discord mod says Fntastic threw “us under the bus”

The Day Before Discord meltdown: a man with dark slicked back hair, a beard, and a checked shirt and light jacket

Dec 11, 2023

The Day Before ‘remake’ already has melee combat, built by one person

The Day Before remake: A survivor from zombie game The Day Before

Dec 11, 2023

The Day Before has already lost around 75% of its peak Steam players

The Day Before Steam players: a man in a green jumper with a beard and short hair

Dec 9, 2023

The Day Before “considering” adding melee to the zombie survival game

The Day Before melee: a woman with short brown hair, sunglasses, and a brown unbuttoned shirt on

Dec 9, 2023

The Day Before proclaims “no one likes journalists”

The Day Before proclaims "no-one likes journalists"L A woman with black hair in a ponytail wearing combat gear stands in a forest area in front of a cityscape

Dec 8, 2023

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Dec 8, 2023

Poor optimization and constant crashes plague The Day Before

The Day Before performance issues

Dec 8, 2023

The Day Before dev seems to be deleting evidence it was ever an MMO

Dec 8, 2023

The Day Before’s definitely-not-AI ads are its best feature

The Day Before's definitely-not-AI ads are its best feature: A woman with combat clothing, black hair in a ponytail, and facial tattoos frowns in a dimly lit corridor

Dec 8, 2023

The Day Before is officially one of the worst-rated Steam games ever

The Day Before Steam reviews: A character with long hair from zombie game The Day Before

Dec 8, 2023

The Day Before deletes original trailers in wake of rocky launch

The Day Before trailers: A man in military gear with a helmet wields a large black rifle, his gaze focused on looking through the scope

Dec 7, 2023

The Day Before mods lock down Discord, urge players to refund

A group of people wearing winter clothes traveling up a snowy hill to a lamp-lit shack.

Dec 7, 2023

The Day Before Discord explodes as players realize it’s not an MMO

The Day Before studio closure: close-up of a heavily armed, beared man.

Dec 7, 2023

The Day Before launches to catastrophic Steam reviews

Soldier in army clothes pointing a rifle in the middle of a street.

Dec 7, 2023

Is The Day Before down? Server status and connection error fixes

A man in a backpack sits at a bar waiting for The Day Before server status to stabilize

Dec 7, 2023

What time does The Day Before release?

Dec 7, 2023

The Day Before dev insists it’s not a scam or an asset flip

The Day Before release date statement: A soldier with a rifle in Fntastic survival game The Day Before

Dec 4, 2023

The Day Before Times Square billboard marks game’s launch week

The Day Before New York billboard

Dec 4, 2023