Steam’s most wishlisted - and controversial - game The Day Before will release next month, after another delay

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Will it ever be The Day Of for much-delayed and gossip-laden zombie MMO The Day Before? We’ll apparently find out in just over a month, as The Day Before’s release date has now been announced as December 5th following yet another slide back from its previous date of November 10th. That’s after developers Fntastic previously promised that there wouldn’t be any more delays - something its latest ‘Final Trailer’ presumably vows once again.

It’s the latest in a series of delays for the open-world survival game that has sat at the top of Steam’s most-wishlisted ranking - overtaking the likes of Starfield on the way - since blowing up last year. Along the way, it’s caused no shortage of controversy, including accusations of being a vapourware scam - something that Fntastic aimed to head off with a look at gameplay earlier this year - being worked on by dozens of unpaid volunteers (along with full-time paid staff, which the devs also call “volunteers”) and vanishing from Steam earlier this year after a claimed trademark dispute.

For those keeping track, The Day Before was originally announced in early 2021 with a June 2022 release date, which then slipped back to March 2023 - something attributed to shifting the game over to use Unreal Engine 5. This January, it was further pushed back to November over those apparent trademark concerns - put down to failing to spot an existing trademark for a separate The Day Before - with the promise of an upcoming beta test, which will now apparently be for those who worked on the game already.

The game will launch into Early Access release via Steam on December 10th, as announced in The Day Before’s ‘Final Trailer’. The trailer does indeed appear to show gameplay, ranging from a