Days after announcing The Day Before had been delayed to November 2023, developer Fntastic has released a 10 minute gameplay video highlighting what players can expect from the open-world zombie survival MMO.
It has just about everything one might expect from the genre and looks to be taking inspiration from a number of other popular games, including The Division, DayZ, and The Last of Us. There’s crouch walking through abandoned city streets, scavenging abandoned homes for supplies, gun customization at a workbench, backpack inventory management, and the occasional run-in with the living dead. Zombies, however, don’t look to pose much of a threat and are easily eliminated from a distance. For an open-world game that can feature other players to encounter and interact with, the video looks oddly lifeless and empty, with most of the footage composed of the player character simply scavenging for supplies or walking empty streets.
This latest gameplay video is the best look yet at The Day Before, of which little has been shown in recent years. The game was originally slated to release in 2022 before it was announced the game would be shifting to Unreal Engine 5. That decision saw the game delayed until March 2023.