The Day Before was taken off Steam shortly after its launch. However, it recently seemed to reappear on the gaming platform – what is going on?
What happened to The Day Before? The game launched on Steam in December 2023 but was quickly discontinued. Players received refunds and the survival shooter shut down its servers – The Day Before was no longer available on Steam.
But suddenly a game appeared that claimed to be The Day Before and looked similar at first glance. For instance, the same developers and publishers were listed on the Steam page. However, upon closer inspection, it quickly became apparent that something was off.
Although the Steam page of the scam game can no longer be viewed, the data can still be found on SteamDB .
Here you can see a trailer of The Day Before:
“This game is so bad that it has transformed from GTA into The Day Before”
If you look at the analysis website SteamDB, the scam becomes evident. The game was not always listed under the name The Day Before.
According to the changelog, the game was originally titled Carrot The Cat. Furthermore, this entry is dated four months before the launch of The Day Before.
In the meantime, the game also seemed to have been titled GTA Brasil before being renamed to the failed survival game.
For instance, a Steam user Fat Mac dryly commented in the reviews: “Damn, this game is so bad that it transformed from GTA into The Day Before.[…].”
According to pcgamer.com, there wasn’t even a real game behind the scam. When you installed the “game”, you got a few bytes of data – nothing more.
Later, things got even more curious. An update on the Steam page of the scam game attempted to explain the other title: “Carrot the Cat is the official codename for the return of TDB”.
The update continued:
We will now explain why we not only changed the entire page and ID of the game but also the core of the game as a whole.
We are working with a studio whose name we cannot disclose for legal reasons, but we can assure you all that everything is under control.
The game files will be updated soon! With a strong compression from 55 GB to 13 GB!
The website pcgamer.com also asked the real publisher of The Day Before for a statement and confirmed what was already suspected.
“MytonaFntastic has no connection to this site,” a spokesperson for the game company explained. Additionally, they contacted Steam to make them aware of the account – apparently successfully. Because the Steam page is no longer available and therefore cannot trick any players anymore.
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