The Day Before
Amazingly, while 9,000 people are still playing The Day Before on Steam after its baffling, hilarious launch this past week, the amount of negative reviews it’s stacked up has plummeted the so-called survival MMO to land in Steam’s bottom 10 games of all time list.
The Day Before has amassed 15,000 reviews in a couple of days, and achieved the “Overwhelmingly Negative” badge with only 18% of them being positive. That lands it in the bottom 10 list, one that is populated by truly bad games but a few “protest” mainstream titles due to some issue or another that angered fans.
Here’s the bottom ten list as it stands now that The Day Before has arrived:
- War of the Three Kingdoms (2021) – 0.99, 10% positive
- Overwatch 2 (2023) – 1.5, 15% positive
- NBA 2K24 (2023) – 1.65, 16% positive
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II (2022) – 1.69, 17% positive
- Flatout 3: Chaos & Destruction (2011) – 1.70, 17% positive
- Identity (2018) – 1.72, 17% positive
- The Day Before (2023) – 1.79, 18% positive
- Uriel’s Chasm (2014) – 1.80, 18% positive
- Spacebased DF-9 (2014) – 1.82, 18% positive
- Mobile Suit Gundam Battle Operation 2 (2023) – 2.09, 21% positive
So, a few categories here, many are old pieces of shovelware that no one has ever heard of. A few are big names people were upset about, Overwatch, MW2 and NBA 2K24, with the most impressive total being Overwatch 2 with that low a score across 225,232 votes. I actually forgot why people were that mad about Overwatch 2 on Steam. Turns out two-thirds of reviews were written by Chinese players, according to reports, with 97% being negative after Overwatch 2 was shut down with the end of the Netease agreement, so that’s the main reason.
The Day Before already has more votes than any game in the top 10 other than OW2, Three Kingdoms and Mobile Suit Gundam, but it’s about to pass that last one. I would put it in the “shovelware” category, but I’d say it’s a more unique case than anything else on this list, given that it did launch as a pretty high profile title due to its deceptive marketing campaign, and at least at release, it had half a million people watching Twitch streams about it. But once players paid $40 for it and saw that it just lied about its genre, not a survival MMO but a (very bad) extraction shooter? They refunded and mass reviewed it poorly, which unlike some “reviewing bombing” campaigns, it certainly deserved. This thing is dead. No patches or fixes will save it. And it does not deserve to recover after how much the dev lied about it ahead of launch.
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