The Day Before Dev Cancels Failing Kickstarter and Announces Another Game in the Same Breath
The Day Before developer Fntastic has cancelled its failing Kickstarter for one game and announced another in the same breath.
Fntastic, who released the utterly disastrous The Day Before in December 2023 before pretending to shut down, resurfaced in September asking for money for a new game: the physics based multiplayer game Escape Factory.
It has now cancelled this project, however, after it reached just 15.73% of its Kickstarter goal with $3,146 raised of a $20,000 goal. "Our campaign on Kickstarter is unlikely to reach our goal," Fntastic said in a statement published to X/Twitter announcing another game.
"After careful analysis and discussion with the team, we have decided that our Escape Factory project has not generated enough interest," it said. The Kickstarter reached the 15.73% mark after four weeks. "With this in mind, we have decided to temporarily suspend work on Escape Factory and postpone it until a more appropriate time."
Fntastic is now allegedly working on Items, an action horror prop hunt game. "Your wishes are very important to us," it said. "This is exactly what many of you have been waiting for."
No Kickstarter was announced but Fntastic said it may return to the crowdfunding route "or explore other options" once a demo for the game is made. Development will "require significant resources" so Fntastic has "decided to release mobile games" to support the process.
"All funds generated from these apps will go directly into development," it said. "We believe this will help us create the game of your dreams."
The term "dream" was often used in Fntastic's marketing for The Day Before. "We hope that after the game's success, we’ll give people faith that in this life, if you persevere toward a dream, it will come true, despite all the obstacles and doubts," Fntastic told IGN in January 2023.
The Day Before launched to an almost impossibly rare 1/10 in IGN's review and its shutdown was announced just four days after it launched in Early Access. It was one of
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