The Day Before announces a beta test and pledges a return to Steam

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When last we left The Day Before, once upon a time the second-most wishlisted game on Steam, it was embroiled in a bizarre trademark dispute with a South Korean calendar app. That argument had seen the game's release date pushed back by eight months, its videos delisted from YouTube(opens in new tab), and its Steam page summarily yanked off the platform(opens in new tab).

But you can't keep a good man down, or a company that's committed so many resources to a project that it's too late to back out now. PCGamesN(opens in new tab) reports that the game's developer, Fntastic, has announced via The Day Before Discord(opens in new tab) that it's going to get a beta test ahead of its November 10 release date. What's more, the company says the game should come back to Steam, too.

Fntastic was pleased to «announce that the game will officially release on November 10th 2023 without any further delay,» read the announcement by Kentain, an official admin on The Day Before's Discord. Although games don't usually have to reaffirm release dates they've already announced, the sheer chaos of The Day Before's development probably makes that kind of restatement necessary.

«As we get closer to the release date, we will be conducting a beta test for the game,» the update continued, «This will give players the opportunity to try out the game before it is released,» and will let you give Fntastic «valuable feedback» that it will use to «improve the final product».

Kentain didn't say when that beta would take place, or if it would be open or closed, but a demo of some kind is pretty much mandatory at this point. It might have been one of Steam's most-anticipated games(opens in new tab) several months ago, but the fiasco around its trademark