History VideoGame / DayOneGarrysIncident

* ObviousBeta: The game was released in a blatantly unfinished and extremely buggy state, with significant gameplay and graphics issues, poor animations, as well as a number of bugs such as clipping issues, unresponsive A.I., and [=NPCs=] spontaneously dying when you loaded a save game. Also, rebinding the keys away from the default WASD controls would ''cause a random command to be deleted from the game menu'', making it impossible to use that command and thus (if it was something important like [=USE=] or [=INVENTORY=]) impossible to play the game properly.

''Day One: Garry's Incident'' is an indie first-person SurvivalSandbox game by French-Canadian developer Wild Games Studio. After failing to fund it on Website/{{Kickstarter}} (despite a suspiciously generous "donation" by [=WGS CEO=] Stephane Woods), the game was released on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} on September 25th, 2013 after getting through its Greenlight system.

This negative press -- [[OvershadowedByControversy and this is probably the reason why you're here]] -- stemmed from accusations that the developers abused [=YouTube=]'s copyright claims system to remove a ''highly'' critical first impressions video made by [[Creator/TheCynicalBrit TotalBiscuit]]. The added online scrutiny from this incident also brought attention to other alleged incidents of misconduct by the developers to [[Main/CorruptCorporateExecutive stamp out criticism that could hurt their profits]], including a number of suspicious reviews on Metacritic inflating the game's score, and implications of [[ShamelessSelfPromoter Shameless Self Promotion]] on the game's Greenlight and Kickstarter pages.

* ArtificialStupidity: ZigZaggedTrope. When the AI is not [[TheAllSeeingAI capable of seeing you across the map]], it has some downright stupid moments. For instance, as shown in [[https://youtu.be/KjTa_x3rbJE?t=17m37s TotalBiscuit's video]], tribesmen will sometimes be hit in the back repeatedly and fail to realise that you are right behind them.

* CuttingTheKnot: Early in the game, a non-hostile native steals your whiskey flask, and will only give it back if you do a TwentyBearAsses fetch quest for her. You can do the quest... '''''[=OR=],''''' you can just straight-up murder her and take your flask back.

The game was eventually removed from Steam on March 12th, 2018 but remains on GamersGate.

The game was eventually removed from Steam on March 12th, 2018.

The game was intended as an episodic release, with the developers stating that they will look to player input to determine what happens next in the story. However--and honestly, [[BileFascination this is probably why you came here]]--the game proved to be a CreatorKiller due to poor sales coupled with ''seriously'' negative press, leading to the developers discontinuing all further work on this or any other game.

''Garry's Incident'' garnered controversy due to accusations that the developers abused [=YouTube=]'s copyright claims system to remove a ''highly'' critical first impressions video made by [[Creator/TheCynicalBrit TotalBiscuit]]. The added online scrutiny from this incident also brought attention to other alleged incidents of misconduct by the developers to [[Main/CorruptCorporateExecutive stamp out criticism that could hurt their profits]], including a number of suspicious reviews on Metacritic inflating the game's score, and implications of [[ShamelessSelfPromoter Shameless Self Promotion]] on the game's Greenlight and Kickstarter pages.

''Day One: Garry's Incident'' is an indie first-person SurvivalSandbox game by French-Canadian developer Wild Games Studio. After failing to fund it on Website/{{Kickstarter}} (despite a suspiciously generous "donation" by [=WGS CEO=] Stephane Woods), the game was released on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} after getting through its Greenlight system.

''Garry's Incident'' garnered controversy due to accusations that the developers abused [=YouTube=]'s copyright claims system to remove a ''highly'' critical first impressions video made by [[Creator/TheCynicalBrit TotalBiscuit]]. The added online scrutiny from this incident also brought attention to other alleged incidents of misconduct by the developers, including a number of suspicious reviews on Metacritic inflating the game's score, and implications of [[ShamelessSelfPromoter Shameless Self Promotion]] on the game's Greenlight and Kickstarter pages.

The game was eventually removed from steam on March 12th, 2018.