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Austin Wood

The bizarre history of The Day Before: From Steam's most-anticipated MMO to a bland survival game that killed a studio

The Day Before.

The Day Before appears to be officially finished. Though the immediate future of its Steam servers remains unclear, with the abrupt closure of developer Fntastic the strange saga of The Day Before has reached an apparent end that's simultaneously surprising and unsurprising. 

Even after a disastrous launch for the not-MMO survival game that once topped Steam's wishlist charts, I don't think many people expected the studio to outright shut down within a week. At the same time, the entire game, from its scope to its genre to its very existence, had only become more uncertain since its reveal thanks to strange and mounting setbacks, to the point that many people did expect it to unceremoniously evaporate.

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