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The Day Before is finally out, and according to its Steam reviews, it absolutely honks"Turns out it is a real game. Kind of wish it wasn’t."
“Turns out it is a real game. Kind of wish it wasn’t.”
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mytona Fntastic
Image credit:Rock Paper Shotgun/Mytona Fntastic
As for what exactly the problems are, well the main issue,quelle surprise, is that the game is not what it was originally marketed as, namely an open world survival MMO. “The game isn’t what was promised,” writes Steam user EaZee. “This is basically a Tom Clancy’s The Division rip off. You leave the city to loot, you come back and [p]ut furniture in your tent.” Another reviewer, Biffa, echoes this sentiment. “No open-world survival elements, it’s just an extraction shooter, and a bad one at that.”
The Day Before - Official TrailerWatch on YouTube
The Day Before - Official Trailer
Beneath this headline failure to deliver on the overall premise, the reviews cite countless more specific problems. User Joux lists a ton of missing features like “no vaulting”, “no directional audio” and “no melee”. WeZon, meanwhile, says “This game does not even have functioning settings, try changing resolution, I dare you.” Other issues include that the loot is apparently poor for a looter-shooter (which just to remind you, isn’t what this game was supposed to be anyway) and that’s assuming you can grab any goodies in the first place. “Killed like ~10 people 9 of them disappeared in 10 seconds, couldn’t even loot them”, writes céé.
In short, near everyone who has reviewed The Day Before hates it. As for what Fntastic has to say about the state of the game, so far, their only statement since launch is a post on X about an overload on the North American servers. “The servers are working. Fills up too quickly” it reads. The developers have apparently responded to the launch in a different way, however. Second Wind’s editor Nick Calandraobservedthat Fntastic has been quietly removing pre-release marketing content from its YouTube channel. “Have zero problem describing this as a full-blown scam now,” Calandra says.
