Issues haven’t gone very nicely for The Day Earlier than, the once-second-most-wishlisted recreation on Steam. After two years of bizarre delays and a near-complete dearth of gameplay footage, the entire thing was muscled off Steam (and the remainder of the web) by a copyright dispute with the maker of a calendar app known as TheDayBefore. Developer Fntastic vowed {that a} triumphant return was within the offing, and regardless of a sure air of sketchiness to the entire thing, it appears prefer it may truly occur—underneath a distinct identify.
As observed by Effectively Performed (through PCGamesN), an organization known as MytonaFntastic—a three way partnership between the developer and writer Mytona—utilized on August 3 for a trademark for “pc recreation software program” known as Dayworld. There’s nothing within the submitting that signifies particularly that Dayworld is related to The Day Earlier than, however provided that Fntastic has beforehand stated that its trademark points had been being dealt with by MytonaFntastic, it is a cheap assumption to make.
The doubtless sticky bit is that Dayworld can be the identify of a collection of novels (a trilogy and a prequel) by Hugo Award-winning sci-fi writer Philip José Farmer. Writer Open Highway Media nonetheless presents the trilogy on the market by varied digital retailers, and it isn’t inconceivable that it might trigger extra complications for Fntastic if it decides to launch its personal dispute over the brand new identify.
There’s been no official phrase from Fntastic a few potential identify change, which is particularly attention-grabbing as a result of there’s additionally been no replace on the deliberate launch date. Improbable stated in January, when The Day Earlier than was launched from Steam, that it had determined to delay the launch from March 1 to November 10, and there is been no replace since—that is still the on-record launch date.
However November 10 is just not rather more than two months from now, which signifies that both Fntastic has all its geese in a row and there is actually nothing left to do however get a brand new identify hooked up, or that this bonkers journey goes to proceed into the indefinite future as one other last-minute delay turns into mandatory.
Stranger issues have occurred than the discharge of a recreation nobody thought would ever see the sunshine of day, however I will not lie: Whether or not as The Day Earlier than, Dayworld, or one thing else completely, I shall be very stunned if we see this recreation go stay on Steam in November.
I’ve reached out to Fntastic for extra info, and can replace if I obtain a reply.
