The Day Before removed from Steam hours after devs shut down studio FntasticThe Day Before is no longer purchasable through Steam, news that comes mere hours after the development studio shut down. After much delay, developer Fntastic finally deployed The Day Before on December 7. The Steam Early Access release instantly turned disastrous, as players encountered a whole host of game-breaking bugs and other issues. Apparently, things proved so dour that the studio shut its doors, citing the game\u2019s financial failures as the chief reason. Now there\u2019s another wrinkle in the ongoing Days Before saga. A few hours after the studio closure announcement, Steam users realized that purchasing the game is no longer possible. What\u2019s more, the company\u2019s and Days Before\u2019s footprint online is slowly beginning to evaporate. The Day Before has been delisted on Steam As spotted by Wario64, The Day Before can no longer be purchased on the PC storefront. The Steam store page still exists as of writing, but purchasing options have been summarily removed. And that\u2019s not all. Journalist Nick Calandra pointed out that the studio\u2019s CEO has deactivated his personal Twitter account. Fntastic\u2019s official website now stands as a shell of its former self, too, with just the studio closure announcement occupying the page. Notably, the Fntastic YouTube channel no longer hosts previously released trailers and the like for The Day Before. The \u2018About\u2019 section does feature the following text, however: \u201cWe\u2019re grateful to everyone who supported us during these difficult years. It\u2019s been a fantastic journey over the past eight years.\u201d It\u2019s a shocking turnaround for The Day Before, which hit Steam Early Access four days ago, but its sudden delisting isn\u2019t the only cause for concern. The CEO\u2019s Twitter deactivation and the website\u2019s barebones display means users are running out of ways to contact the developers. In its shutdown announcement, Fntastic noted that every penny the game made would be used to \u201cpay off debts to [the studio\u2019s] partners.\u201d Naturally, this raises questions about reimbursement, especially given Steam\u2019s two-hour gameplay policy for refunds and the now-defunct live-service nature of the survival experience. Someone behind The Day Before will have plenty to answer for once the dust starts to settle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Day Before removed from Steam hours after devs shut down studio FntasticThe Day Before is no longer purchasable through Steam, news that comes mere hours after the development studio shut down. After much delay, developer Fntastic finally deployed The Day Before on December 7. The Steam Early Access release instantly turned disastrous, as players […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}