Fntastic, the now notorious developer behind controversial shooter The Day Before, is trying to make a comeback less than a year after that game’s servers were shut down amid ridicule and outrage. Originally announced in 2021, The Day Before was marketed as a survival MMO in a zombie-infested post-apocalyptic world and seemed very promising. But from its very first trailer, eyebrows were raised as gamers called out Fntastic for copying a plethora of other titles, including Red Dead Redemption 2, The Last of Us, and The Division.
Despite this, it seems that many people would have been willing to give The Day Before a chance, if it kept its promises and lived up to expectations, which after the trailers were admittedly not particularly high. However, when the game launched in December 2023, players were presented with technical glitches and a game that was not in fact an MMO. The community’s mood turned from amused to almost hostile when a Day Before developer said that the game had never been an MMO and blamed the mismarketing on publisher Mytona.
One of the most widely panned games in recent memory, The Day Before, somehow still has a single active user...
