Controversial Early Entry recreation The Day Before has seen its participant depend fall nearly 90% after simply 4 days and entered Steam’s 10 worst reviewed video games of all time checklist.
Knowledge from participant monitoring web site SteamDB reveals The Day Before peaked at 38,104 concurrent customers at launch on December 7 however, 4 days later on the time of writing, that quantity has dropped to 4,125. That is an 89% lower.
The quantity noticed a harsh drop-off on December 8 however, unusually, even noticed slight decreases into the weekend as nicely. Games sometimes launch in the course of the week and participant counts peak over the next weekend when extra folks have time to play.
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The Finals launched on Steam on Friday, December 8 and peaked at 200,677 concurrent gamers, for instance, however rose additional to 221,396 on Saturday and 242,619 on Sunday. They Day Before noticed the other impact, dropping to a peak of 9,319 concurrent gamers on Saturday and seven,690 on Sunday.
Amid a sea of complaints, customers on Reddit have additionally claimed to have requested for a refund following alleged unkept guarantees by developer Fntastic. One poll with 968 votes on the time of writing requested gamers if that they had saved The Day Before or had it refunded. 150 stated they had been maintaining it whereas 818 requested for a refund.
Player suggestions is in any other case clear on The Day Before’s Steam web page, the place the sport has an “overwhelmingly damaging” ranking with solely 20% of customers recommending it. This noticed it enter Steam’s worst 10 person reviewed video games of all time checklist, the place it sits in ninth place. Warfare of the Three Kingdoms tops the checklist, adopted by Overwatch 2, NBA 2K24, Name of Obligation: Fashionable Warfare 2, Flatout 3: Chaos and Destruction, Id, Uriel’s Allure, Spacebase DF-9, The Day Before, and Cell Go well with Gundam: Battle Operation 2 in tenth.
Controversy has surrounded The Day Before for a very long time, however post-launch backlash is probably the worst Fntastic has seen. Gamers slammed the sport for not being the open world, survival MMO that was promised, however as an alternative a easy extraction shooter.
Its launch as an Early Entry title was solely revealed a month prior in November 2023 too, with gamers in any other case anticipating a full launch on PC and console. This got here after a number of different delays, accusations of copying different video games greater than as soon as, and a beta that was solely accessible to those that participated in unpaid work for Fntastic.
You may learn concerning the full unusual saga of The Day Before right here.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.