The Day Before entered Early Access on December 7 2023. Four days later Fntastic said the game had failed financially and the studio was closing. PC Gamer reported that Steam sales stopped the same day. IGN reported that Fntastic and Mytona were working with Valve on refunds.

On December 22 2023, PC Gamer reported that servers would be retired on January 22 2024 and that remaining purchases would be refunded. The studio's own marketing had presented an MMO-scale survival game; the shipped Early Access build was widely described as a small extraction shooter.