Fntastic has just launched The Day Before on Steam, and from the looks of it PC gamers are not that excited about it. In just a few hours, the game got Overwhelmingly Negative reviews on Steam, mainly due to network issues.

The Day Before is powered by Unreal Engine 5 and is visually underwhelming. The game does not take advantage of Nanite, and there are a lot of traversal stutters. I don’t know whether Mytona has used Lumen. From what I could see, though, the game’s lighting system does not look particularly impressive.

Performance-wise, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 was able to maintain above 70fps at Native 4K on Max Settings. Now since this title is in Early Access, we won’t be judging its performance. However, I thought these initial performance figures may interest some of you. Once the game leaves EA, we’ll have a proper PC Performance Analysis article.

Now as a lot of people claimed, the game does indeed have major network issues. It took us a lot of effort to find a server to join. And in that server, we had major lag/latency issues. So yeah, this is a pretty rough launch.

I’ve also seen a lot of people describing it as an extraction shooter and not as an MMO. And they are right. The Day Before is similar to Escape from Tarkov. You’ll get some missions in your base and from what I could see, the first three were “looting” missions. In other words, you’ll have to go to the city, find some items, and return them to Woodberry. The Journal and the Map also reminded those of Escape from Tarkov. Yes, the game has a big city to explore but its mechanics are similar to those of an Extraction Shooter. Okay okay, it’s not similar to Hunt: Showdown. However, if you’ve played Escape from Tarkov, you know what to expect.

The Day Before is also rough in terms of gameplay. Player movement is stiff, and all animations need to be further polished. The zombies are also as uninspired as they can get. The gun mechanics are serviceable. They are not awful, but they are not great either.

Finally, I wanted to share some gameplay footage from it. However, NVIDIA Shadowplay could not capture any from it. I don’t know what’s going on here, and I’m not really interested in troubleshooting it.

Ironically, after playing the game for two hours, I decided to relaunch it, only to find out that I had to create a new character and replay the tutorial. What the hell happened to my previous character? And why did I lose my house? Why did I lose all my progress? Jesus Christ, what the hell Mytona?

In short, I’d suggest staying away from it. At least until the game leaves its Early Access phase.