The Day Before shifts to Unreal Engine 5 and gets delayed to March 2023

The Day Before, Steam’s Most Wishlisted Game has now shifted to Unreal Engine 5. However, the change in the Game Engine has made for a significant delay. The developers have said that the game will release on 1st March 2023. According to them, this new change will allow the gameplay of The Day Before to become even better.

The developers FNTASTIC Games even gave a statement to IGN. The statement reads, “Millions of people have added The Day Before to their wishlist,”

“Feeling and understanding the great responsibility that we face, with enormous gratitude in our hearts, were pleased to announce that The Day Before is switching to the new Unreal Engine 5 technology! The transition to a more advanced and adapted open worlds engine will make the gameplay of The Day Before even more fantastic.”

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Set in a deadly, post-pandemic America, The Day Before is an open-world MMO survival game. The developers say that the game is overrun by the infected and survivors killing each other for supplies and more. The game originally had a release date of June 2022. It was supposed to be released for PC as well as the next-gen consoles like Xbox Series S|X and PS5.

Image: The Day Before

The game trailers available on the game’s Steam page were very impressive and got a lot of attention when they got released. The trailer really showcased how high-end the visuals for this game already were. Now with the switch to Unreal Engine 5, it should be interesting to see if the game manages to improve even more.

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