After a large number of dissatisfied and criticized players, the new escape shooter “The Day Before” (The Day Before) once again left players shocked. The developer FNTASTIC Studio announced its closure, only 4 days after it was launched on December 8.
according toOfficial X post announcementFNTASTIC said that the commercial failure of “Before the Holocaust” resulted in a lack of funds to sustain it, so it decided to close the studio. At the same time, it once again emphasized that no pre-order funds were received from players in the five years of development, and there was no crowdfunding.
FNTASTIC claimed that the “Eve of Cataclysm” servers will still be operating for now, but the future situation is unclear, and apologized to the players again at the end, “We are sorry that we did not meet your expectations. We have tried our best, but unfortunately We misestimated our capabilities, and developing games is a difficult challenge.”
Shortly after the FNTASTIC announcement, the publisher Mytona also issued an X announcement and apologized for the game’s failure to meet players’ expectations. It also contacted the Steam platform to open a refund channel from now on.
According to Reddit player discussions, the special situation of “Before the Storm” seems to allow Steam to open refunds to players who have played for more than 2 hours.
Steam are accepting refunds to The Day Before over 2 hours of playtime.
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Although “Before the Holocaust” is still on the Steam platform, the purchase button has been closed, and as soon as the news of the studio’s closure came out, the reviews that originally climbed back to mostly negative reviews once again fell back to overwhelmingly negative reviews. Many players are Reviews urge not to buy the game.
Not only is the studio preparing to close, but the YouTube channel of “Before the Holocaust” is also shut down at the same time, and the Discord channel has also ceased operation, leaving only the moderator’s last message.farewell message。
In fact, the biggest criticism from players of “Before the Holocaust” comes from the fact that the content of the game itself does not match the promotion, especially the originally envisioned open world, which is actually just a general evacuation shooting game, and the content still has many imperfections. .
According to sources from overseas players, a leaked Telegram message from the studio CEO stated that sales of the game exceeded 200,000 units after its launch, but refunds were as high as 90,000 units.
How many people bought & refunded The Day Before? According to a (leaked?) Telegram message from Fntastic’s CEO Eduard Gotovtsev, it’s had 201,000 buyers and 91,700 refunders – a 46% refund rate! pic.twitter.com/eeL669pRzi
— Simon Carless (@simoncarless) December 11, 2023
With FNTASTIC announcing its closure, the “Eve of Catastrophe” game seems to have come to an end. The game is likely not to receive updates, and will be completely removed from the shelves one day in the future. FNTASTIC’s reaching this point has also become a lesson for many developers. example.
