Afrigather On January 22, 2024, a full month from now, Fntastic will pull the plug on its troubled shooter The Day Before.
The studio, which formally ended operations in the present day, confirmed the sport will likely be retired subsequent yr. Its investor Mytona is working with Steam to make sure all gamers who purchased the sport get full refunds.
“With out a improvement group, we had no various alternative however to formally shut the undertaking,” defined Fntastic.
The advanced story of A Day Earlier than
The Day Earlier than launched two weeks in the past, and has had an advanced saga. Days after its mid-December launch, Fntastic confirmed it could be closing down, leaving the sport’s future in query.
Hours after that announcement, the developer confirmed The Day Earlier than was a monetary failure. Nearly half of gamers sought a refund not lengthy after shopping for it, not helped by mostly negative reviews at launch.
Previous to that, it’d been all of a sudden delisted attributable to a trademark claim. Earlier than then and as much as launch, there have been questions on its validity as a recreation.
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