It feels like we’ve been here before, and that’s because we have. Once again, The Day Before has been delayed just weeks from release, this time until November 10.
It all started today when the game was suddenly delisted on Steam. Fntastic stated that its highly-anticipated game which was set to launch on March 1 was delisted due to a “bug” that occurred during Steam’s maintenance and that it would be back up shortly. Phew.
Well apparently that wasn’t the case, and this so-called bug was actually a revelation that somehow, Fntastic didn’t own the trademark to the name The Day Before, a game they’ve been working on for four years. Instead, a South Korean individual filed the trademark on June 24, 2021…who requested that the game be removed from Steam. And it was.
Fntastic provided a statement that revealed the baffling news, saying that as a result they are postponing both the raw gameplay footage that was promised this month and the game’s release date. You can read the statement below:
— Fntastic (@FntasticHQ) January 25, 2023
As someone who has been sipping on The Day Before kool-aid since the first gameplay videos dropped the delay doesn’t come as a shock – I was expecting that. But how a company failed to secure the trademark for the game it is working on and how it was never discovered until now I’ll never understand. With lots of people already questioning the project’s validity, all it does is make The Day Before and Fntastic look more suss.
It’ll be interesting to see what happens moving forward, whether Fntastic secure the trademark or rename the project (The Day Before Yesterday maybe). Whether you’re keen on the game or not though, you can’t deny that it’s been an entertaining and wild ride.
What do you make of The Day Before’s latest delay? Let us know in the comments or on social media.
Despite a childhood playing survival horrors, point and clicks and beat ’em ups, these days Zach tries to convince people that Homefront: The Revolution is a good game while pining for a sequel to The Order: 1886 and a live-action Treasure Planet film. Carlton, Burnley FC & SJ Sharks fan. Get around him on Twitter @tightinthejorts
