Many viewers say the footage looks like a rerun of The Day Before, so players are approaching the project with caution from the outset.

Hero Games—a Chinese company that was an early investor in Game Science’s Black Myth: Wukong—has unveiled its own title, CrisisX. It’s a post-apocalyptic, open-world survival-and-crafting game slated for PC and iOS/Android, with a planned release window in Q2 2026. Players explore a sprawling 1,200-km² world alongside up to 5,000 others on a single server. The enormous map spans 12 distinct biomes, from Western-style cities and hidden laboratories to snow-capped peaks. Each area is packed with unique items, vegetation, resources, and wildlife to discover, gather, and hunt.

CrisisX touts a flexible combat system covering everything from machetes and crossbows to pistols, sniper rifles, machine guns, RPGs, and grenades. You’ll need that arsenal: the ruined world teems with dangerous, zombie-like infected NPCs, including roaming hordes and titan mutants. Players can also build armored vehicles—such as the M2 Bradley or WWII-era M4 Sherman—to contest vital resources like oil fields.

Cooperation is central. Players can form teams, clans, and communities to secure strategic resources and expand territory. While unity boosts survival against infected swarms and harsh elements, it also guarantees turf wars between rival factions. True to the survival genre, you must manage hunger, thirst, and health; every physical action influences stamina and character attributes.

Base-building is part of the package, too. You can claim land in the shared open world and expand it into sturdier homesteads outfitted with fences, farms, livestock, and other tools to hold back the infected. It’s not just NPCs you’ll worry about, though—other survivors can raid your home at any time.

YouTube comments already reflect skepticism: “7 Days to Die Before The Day Before: Origins,” “28 Days Before,” and “The Day Before comeback?”—a nod to that game’s doomed 2023 launch and equally ill-fated 2024 relaunch.

Source: WCCFTech, Steam