Steam’s most wishlisted game has been delayed until 2023

Survival MMO The Day Before was set for release in June but is now upgrading to Unreal Engine 5

Announced in January last year, The Day Before looks a lot like your typical open-world zombie survive ‘em up. You’ll be jogging about, picking up supplies and offing its wandering brain-eaters. It all looks veryThe Division 2, so it will be interesting to see how its MMO elements make it stand out compared to Ubisoft’s live service game.

In a statement about the game’s delay, developer Fntastic and publisher Mytona said that since “millions of people” have added The Day Before to their Steam wishlists, they now feel a “great responsibility” to deliver on their original premise. “The transition to a more advanced and adapted open worlds engine, will make the gameplay of The Day Before even more fantastic,” they said.

The visuals already look pretty pleasant - Nvidia released a4K ray tracing trailerfor it back in January this year - but given what we’ve seen ofother Unreal Engine 5 games, the change in engine could work wonders for it. Expect a graphical zhuzh when The Day Before is next shown off.

To find out more about The Day Before, you can, of course, visit itsSteampage. If you’re among the wishlist-happy, then you can see that longing fulfilled when The Day Before launches in March next year.