The Day Before joins Overwatch 2 as one of Steam's worst-reviewed games after players discover it's not an MMO at all
Dec. 8, 2023The game’s launch has gone as well as expected
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Survival MMO The Day Before has become one of Steam’s worst-reviewed games, and it’s mostly down to the fact it’s suddenly no longer an MMO.
On December 7, developer Fntastic finally released The Day Before - a game that many thought was never going to see the light of day. It started life at the top of Steam’s most wishlisted list, where it stayed for quite a long time, but it’s now joining the likes ofOverwatch 2as one of theworst-reviewed gameson the digital storefront.
It didn’t take long after its release for The Day Before to be met withseveral ‘overwhelmingly negative’ Steam reviews. In their reviews, players can be seen criticizing the game’s lack of open world, poor performance, and most noticeably, the missing MMO element. “This is not an open world MMO, this is a small area extraction shooter,” one reviewer writes on Steam. “Not an MMO, not open world,” another says in their review.
To make matters worse, members of the game’ssubreddithave claimed Fntastic is removing any evidence that suggests it was ever supposed to be an MMO. According to the post below, it looks like several changes have been made in Steam’s backend that remove things like the mention of ‘open-world’ or ‘massively multiplayer’. If you head on over to the game’s actualSteam page, these tags still exist but in the user-submitted section of the page.
Others have noticed changes happening to Fntastic’sYouTube channel, with thisTwitter usershowing how the developer’s previous videos have seemingly disappeared from the account. These actions are strange for sure, but hardly unexpected considering all of the bizarre things the developer did before release like asking forvolunteers to work on the game, removing it from Steam due to a “copyright claim”, and just a generallack of updates.
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