The Day Before\u2019s player count makes it the most authentic survival sim FntasticDespite concerns that The Day Before was little more than vaporware in the lead-up to its release, Fntastic\u2019s survival\/extraction shooter ultimately did materialize as a real game. It wasn\u2019t a particularly good one (awful is a suitable descriptor), however, even though it was the most-wish-listed game on Steam before it arrived at the tail end of 2023. Interest quickly dropped off once fans of the genre finally got their hands on the long-gestating title. Valve delisted The Day Before four days later, just hours after Fntastic announced its closure, claiming it \u201clacked the funds\u201d to continue. Despite all this, and the fact that servers for the game no longer operate, it continues to find an audience of exactly one. No more, no less. Per SteamDB, The Day Before, from a peak of 38,104 players nine months ago, has spiraled down to just one. What exactly is going on here isn\u2019t clear, but theorists have been putting forward their headcanon. \u201cGuy is literally playing a post-apocalyptic world with no humans left,\u201d quipped one user on a Reddit thread discussing the anomaly, with another adding \u201cPretty damn immersive; GOTY.\u201d \u201cThere are rumors that it\u2019s a modder trying to revive the game,\u201d another claimed, with no further context or information provided. Reviving a game universally derided for its poor quality would be a bold move, that\u2019s for sure, but stranger things have happened. \u201cDid someone start the game up and die in their chair of disappointment?\u201d more questioned. If an individual truly has somehow managed to infiltrate The Day Before, though, they\u2019re living the dream of an authentic post-apocalyptic experience. Escape from Tarkov? The Last of Us? Too many humans. This is the true survival experience, and you\u2019re not allowed to play it. In the mood to read about more dead games? Concord\u2019s got you covered.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Day Before\u2019s player count makes it the most authentic survival sim FntasticDespite concerns that The Day Before was little more than vaporware in the lead-up to its release, Fntastic\u2019s survival\/extraction shooter ultimately did materialize as a real game. It wasn\u2019t a particularly good one (awful is a suitable descriptor), however, even though it was […]<\/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-85461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85461","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=85461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}