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In less than a week from The Day Before’s release, Fntastic announces its closure

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Well, you gotta love this. Last week, Fntastic released The Day Before on PC via Steam Early Access. And, earlier today, the publisher announced its closure. Yeap, in less than a week, Fntastic announced its closure.

Fntastic claimed in its official statement that The Day Before was a commercial failure. As a result of that, the team is unable to continue working on it. Fntastic also stated that all the amount of money it has raised will be used to pay off debts to its partners.

The Day Before was advertised as an MMO but it played more like an Extraction Shooter. In its Early Access phase, the game was rough. And, as we specifically noted in our article, PC gamers should have stayed away from it.

What’s really funny here is that the game won’t even receive a single patch to at least address some of its issues. Fntastic simply released the game and called it a day. Ironically, the game was also a Top Seller when it came out. So, I don’t really buy that “commercial failure” statement.

I also don’t know how on Earth Fntastic tricked NVIDIA into supporting them. In January 2022, NVIDIA released an RTX trailer for The Day Before. The game was meant to have Ray Tracing on PC. And, as you may have guessed, its Early Access version did not feature any of them.

Anyway, the development and release of The Day Before was a rollercoaster. And hey, compared to Abandoned, this time we did get a game. So, that’s at least something, right?