"Totally Not A Scam" Game The Day Before Sees Developer FNTASTIC Closing Up Shop The Week After

Yes, you read that right. The Day Before's future is "uncertain". So is the future of one of their other titles, Propnight, but who the hell cares about that.

This all comes from a statement posted to developer FNTASTIC's X (formerly Twitter) account today.

The team claims that the zombie survival game failed financially...four days after the damn game, which is still getting lambasted in the Steam reviews, actually launched.

The servers will be staying on, but no one seems to know for how long. Moderators on the game's Discord (having previously closed servers) have also said their good-byes, chiming in to say that they may have been misled as well, and had to bear the brunt of the community's disdain for launch, even though they were misled.

"All income received is being used to pay off debts to our partners," the message reads, "It's important to note that we didn't take any money from the public during the development of The Day Before. There were no pre-orders or crowdfunding campaigns."

This seems to be a way to try and once again sell the game as "not a scam," something FNTASTIC tried to do in its "Revelations" prior to launch.

What the post does NOT mention, however, is refunds. Sorry, not taking money BEFORE release, but totally running with the money AFTER release is still "scam" worthy behavior, FNTASTIC.

It's time for Steam to step in here. There is no version of our universe where FNTASTIC should get a dime from the release of this abomination. 

If you weren't part of the almost 50% of users that were granted refunds already, you can try this advice if you're outside of Steam's normal "2 Hour" policy.

Here's a link to the X post itself, but since things about this game have a nasty way of disappearing, here's the original image they posted, too. 

UPDATE: Look are DayZ throwing some SERIOUS shade! LOL!

/s🤭 pic.twitter.com/xwfNIGpY0W

— DayZ 🖥 🎮 ❤️ (@DayZ) December 11, 2023