7 Days to Die

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8.3

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  1. Sojum
    Sep 30, 2014
    7
    7 Days is coming along very nicely. My OCD keeps me coming back by reflex. I think there's still a ways to go before it escapes Minecraft trajectory. Right now it looks nice but there's just a lot of collect, craft, build, kill zombies and wash rinse and repeat with no real reward for a job well done. I can't even sit on the awesome couches in my zombie-proof pad. That would really be an7 Days is coming along very nicely. My OCD keeps me coming back by reflex. I think there's still a ways to go before it escapes Minecraft trajectory. Right now it looks nice but there's just a lot of collect, craft, build, kill zombies and wash rinse and repeat with no real reward for a job well done. I can't even sit on the awesome couches in my zombie-proof pad. That would really be an excellent reward - being able to interact 100% more with the world. Let me sit on my furniture, stream videos through my TV, actually SLEEP in my bed (does anyone else feel like this is 7 Days of Insomnia?). My character NEVER sleeps and that starts to mess with my non-virtual head after a while. :) Let me climb those trees and towers. Let them fall to the ground like actually trees and towers instead of bouncy Minecraft objects. Let me demolish whole building with TNT, and give me more of those buildings (bigger and with more variety) - exploring the city is one of the best and nerve-wrackingest aspects of the game. Give me more, less predictable, things to find there. Give me multiple spawn point options (bed or sleeping bag). I could go on (additional bag space?), but there are thousands of possibilities that would further separate this from Minecraft, bring it further into an RPG and still be more about building, crafting and exploring. This game has tons of potential and I fully expect to be back to increase my score as new Alpha releases come out.… Expand
  2. Captain_Faramir
    Apr 3, 2017
    6
    6.7 - Lots of glitches and bugs at the moment still but can still be potentially a decent survival game. Crafting and building is good, with lots of detailed objects and props. Combat needs improvement and maybe adding vehicles would make it better.
  3. Squidsie
    Nov 3, 2014
    7
    It's hard for me to say I enjoyed this game. I got it at no cost to me, so I'm not going to rightfully comment about the price tag, but there's certainly a lot to do, and it's definitely not a bad game, it's just not for everybody, especially when there are a plethora of games like it that arguably do what it does better. It's definitely a good way to kill time, so I think 7 is a fairIt's hard for me to say I enjoyed this game. I got it at no cost to me, so I'm not going to rightfully comment about the price tag, but there's certainly a lot to do, and it's definitely not a bad game, it's just not for everybody, especially when there are a plethora of games like it that arguably do what it does better. It's definitely a good way to kill time, so I think 7 is a fair rating. It doesn't look beautiful, the combat isn't anything spectacular, but as I stated earlier there is plenty to see, plenty to do, lots of ground to explore. I lightly recommend this game, if you're a fan of the genre.… Expand
  4. TurdBurglar
    Dec 23, 2013
    5
    It's definitely not worth $35 right now, and probably not ever. It is extremely interesting and the multiplayer aspect is entertaining, but a fair price is far from the wallet-sucker it is now.
  5. Crackfarmer
    Aug 29, 2016
    7
    By far one of the best zombie survival Games out there.
    You could get it cracked somewhere in the net but i bought it.
    Dev's made great progress in the last 2 years. It's probably the most difficult survival Game out there, very grindy. Zombies are annoying AF. They even did through dirt and other stuff to annoy you at nights. Dedicated servers have kinda less options to play with,    By far one of the best zombie survival Games out there.
    You could get it cracked somewhere in the net but i bought it.

    Dev's made great progress in the last 2 years.
    It's probably the most difficult survival Game out there, very grindy. Zombies are annoying AF. They even did through dirt and other stuff to annoy you at nights.
    Dedicated servers have kinda less options to play with, renting a server isn't worth at all. Not that the current state. But it has a singleplayer which is great.

    Defo worth the money.    … Expand
  6. ScienceAdvisor
    Nov 12, 2016
    5
    On sale for $10, this is worth it just to play around with. At the full price it is not. This is far from ready for release, but the devs are already talking about wrapping it up next year. TFPs were expecting Telltale to do a lot of patching for them, when TT handled the port to consoles. They were wrong. So the game is still unoptimized, and each patch is just adding moreOn sale for $10, this is worth it just to play around with. At the full price it is not. This is far from ready for release, but the devs are already talking about wrapping it up next year. TFPs were expecting Telltale to do a lot of patching for them, when TT handled the port to consoles. They were wrong. So the game is still unoptimized, and each patch is just adding more unoptimized content. With most of the team putting out content at a pace that strongly suggests that only the team lead is full-time, this is a wait and see. If they keep at it for another two years they could have something worthwhile in two years, at their current pace. But if they call it quits in 2017, there is little chance it will be release-worthy.… Expand
  7. Jakius_Emrys
    Dec 30, 2017
    7
    This game was one of the most promising survival games I had played and could've had great potential if it had gotten past the Alpha stages. Currently I use the Alpha 16.4 version on my P.C. and the 1.0.18.0 version on my Xbox One. Whilst the game play is some of the most complex and engaging I've ever used, after a few days (in the game, of course), it starts to get a bit boring andThis game was one of the most promising survival games I had played and could've had great potential if it had gotten past the Alpha stages. Currently I use the Alpha 16.4 version on my P.C. and the 1.0.18.0 version on my Xbox One. Whilst the game play is some of the most complex and engaging I've ever used, after a few days (in the game, of course), it starts to get a bit boring and repetitive. Whilst it may not have the best graphics, I would've been willing to look past that if they kept some of the mechanics from the earlier versions. For example, in the current Xbox One version I own, one of the mechanics I liked was the ability to place arrow slits on flat on the ground, so that when the bottom of my base is overrun during Horde Nights, I could easily walk over the slits above the first floor and rain arrows and bullets down onto the zombies below. However, with the recently released Alpha 16.4 on the PC, you are unable to do that, which is a huge disappointment on the developers part. Also, one of the elements I loved from the earlier versions was the ability to get better versions of weapons by crafting multiple versions of them (e.g. in the Xbox version, each time I made a new stone axe, it leveled up gradually (even though it starts at level 1)), however with the 16.4 release, they did away with this and had the items start at level 25, and make you spend skill points to get to level 50, 100 and so on, which ruined a bit of the game play that I so enjoyed. However, some of the improvements on the earlier versions was the addition of items such as the electric fences and blade traps, so the improvements aren't a total loss. When the completed version arrives (hopefully within the next year or so), I hope that they'll combine all of the best parts of each version together (and add a story hopefully). However, it looks as though it might be overshadowed by Overkill's Walking Dead survival game set to be released in 2018, so it is unfortunate that it's taken a long time to get completed, because then it would've had an epic release.… Expand
  8. SuperkenGaming
    Jun 30, 2016
    6
    7 Days to Die
    Feels like 7 years to die
    7 Days to die is a Minecraft style survival horror game, as you use tools, craft items and slay zombies your skills and character levels up making your survival chances in this survival horror game even that much greater... But unfortunately 7 Days to die puts more emphasis on survival than it does the horror, or the game… This game moves at the    7 Days to Die
    Feels like 7 years to die
    7 Days to die is a Minecraft style survival horror game,
    as you use tools, craft items and slay zombies your skills and character levels up making your survival chances in this survival horror game even that much greater...
    But unfortunately 7 Days to die puts more emphasis on survival than it does the horror, or the game…
    This game moves at the pace of a slug…
    What makes Minecraft so great is that while it is also a survival game about crafting and surviving from random attacks... it moves at a fairly quick pace…
    You can build a shovel and dig a temporary shelter with sufficient lighting before the sun falls on your initial spawn…
    Minecraft also makes essentials like a forge or torches very accessible from the jump….
    7 Days to die goes against all of this…
    For starters... This is no Minecraft other than the basic idea of gather materials, craft with those materials, and try not to die while you do this...
    But building, crafting, combat, and scavenging all suffer due to the pacing this game has…
    You collect items and build at a crawl…
    you can definitely make a shovel, and axe fairly quickly as there are basic crafting materials like rocks and trees everywhere…
    but once you go to dig a shelter you’ll quickly realize building in this world is going to be a chore..
    You can’t swiftly build an underground shelter to revisit after a day of hunting and looking for supplies to slowly build a thriving chunk of land…
    It’s going to take days upon days... youre better off finding a cabin around essential recourses and rebuilding…
    Which honestly takes away the joy of owning the procedurally generated or hand crafted land you spawn into…
    There’s no fun in upgrading something already built…
    but thanks to how long it takes to destroy a block of dirt even with the hardness level turned down... you have no other choice….
    You can of course make a building out of wood, as wood collecting is fairly easy… but with how often your tools will break, wood is a valuable recourse that you might as well collect to again just rebuild an already built home…
    the hunger and thirst system in this game also hinders creativity as you never feel like you have time to really do anything other than find drinks and food…
    During my time playing I found a corn field behind a cabin for food…
    But I had no water source….
    To make drinks I needed glass jars that I for the life of me couldn’t find…
    luckily these glass jars can be crafted!
    But to do that I needed to craft a forge...
    A basic essential…
    But the crafting materials for this forge isn’t so basic…
    I needed to go hunt animals…
    While my character is dying of thirst… life slowly draining...
    I had to hunt animals that are practically nonexistent in this world…
    There are deer...rabbits...bears...dogs...
    But good luck finding them...
    Which again brings me back to Minecraft...
    Animals are needed for armor in that game so they are reasonably findable…
    They aren’t crawling all over the place, but if you actively look you will find some…
    That isn’t the case here…
    A material you need for an essential basic to craft an item needed to create glass so your character doesn’t die of thirst is made unreasonably inaccessible…
    I was in game for 6 real hours… and still didn’t have the materials for a forge…
    My tools and character were just as basic as a fresh spawn…
    I felt no sense of progression at all which in turn leaves me feeling frustrated.. Like I’m getting nowhere in this game…
    I eventually started thinking what the point...is
    I can’t reasonably craft... I can’t build tunnel systems for materials…
    I have no source of water….
    what am I supposed to do other than not die…
    There is such a deep crafting system here….
    the idea of the scavenging hunt is a joy... you can create stronger materials to reinforce your shelter from zombie attacks, even craft guns and bullets...
    Find schematics scattered throughout the world... find quests that will lead to treasures... but again the inaccessible survival basics with make all of this seem unobtainable…
    As if you just can’t find animals for their hides... you’re going to be stick with the basics forever... that’s just how it is….
    one missing puzzle piece will stop you from finishing… and once you do find them or any other materials you still have to deal with the over powered zombies… Zombies in this game are quick damage sponges that can somehow climb… You’ll be hitting them over the head with a club for what seems like forever while they just claw and scratch you dealing with more than one without a gun is near impossible… And you can’t just run as for some reason the developers thought it would be a great idea to allow them to stun you, so you can’t moves for like 3 seconds… just taking the damage… and once again you don’t just find guns in this game.. Character limit reached. Hear the rest on YT SuperkenGaming    … Expand
  9. James_Maniac
    Mar 19, 2017
    7
    From the POV of a kid in his mid-teens with nothing better to do with his time, this game is extremely entertaining. People such as myself who are fans of things like The Walking Dead, Dayz, and the zombie genre in general will most likely enjoy this game. I've spent 300+ hours playing this game over the course of 2.5 years, so I have seen this game change drastically. For example, youFrom the POV of a kid in his mid-teens with nothing better to do with his time, this game is extremely entertaining. People such as myself who are fans of things like The Walking Dead, Dayz, and the zombie genre in general will most likely enjoy this game. I've spent 300+ hours playing this game over the course of 2.5 years, so I have seen this game change drastically. For example, you used to be able to find tons of guns and ammo all over the place. But now, it is extremely difficult to find enough gun parts to actually create a whole gun (let alone find the schematic for the gun). Looking at what the game currently is and not looking at what the game used to be, it is pretty good. Building bases is very entertaining, crafting weapons (specifically, those extremely rare guns) makes you feel great, being able to chop a zombie's head off in one hit is super rewarding, and playing with friends or even just on multiplayer is fun as all hell. All in all, this game is great for people who like the zombie genre and are looking for a source of entertainment. Although, buy it from steam so if you end up not liking it, you can refund it (because it seems that a lot of people are mixed about it).

    From the POV of a nit-picky person, this game is not the greatest. The graphics are very bad for a game that is hard for a rx480 8GB to run. It seems as though, from watching the many update sneakpeaks over the years, that the devs are more focused on adding unnecessary (but still pretty cool) things into the game, rather than improving what they already have. The main turn off for many of the game's players is the lack of good graphics, so the fact that the devs aren't putting that as there 1st, 2nd, or 3rd priority is a little bit strange. The other strange thing about the game is that in the 2.5 years I've owned it, it hasn't left alpha stage yet. The fact that it is still in alpha is sort of ridiculous because, in my opinion, it was beta worthy in alpha 10 (when they made the biggest change yet). If not alpha 10, then alpha 16 as it is apparently going to be the new biggest change to the game.    … Expand
  10. Pietro01
    Jan 6, 2015
    6
    Great game! Everything I could ever want...But there is only one problem...when playing online, griefers are galore..It can be difficult finding a good server with rules that prevent people from completely destroying your home and take everything you have after you log out. It's a perfect game in every other aspect. If I had to change anything, it would be having the land claim blocksGreat game! Everything I could ever want...But there is only one problem...when playing online, griefers are galore..It can be difficult finding a good server with rules that prevent people from completely destroying your home and take everything you have after you log out. It's a perfect game in every other aspect. If I had to change anything, it would be having the land claim blocks actually "STOP" people from getting in and have some rule against griefers completely destroying the home which you reside.… Expand
  11. BrettT
    Jun 8, 2014
    7
    While this is an enjoyable game, it is not worth the asking price of $25 in it's current state. Yes, it is in Alpha build, but with this big of a lack of features, it is simply not worth it. Do remember the game is still very fun, and has quite the interesting pre-made map. Besides a lack of features, the frame rate can often take a few dives, and this is not only apparent on my machineWhile this is an enjoyable game, it is not worth the asking price of $25 in it's current state. Yes, it is in Alpha build, but with this big of a lack of features, it is simply not worth it. Do remember the game is still very fun, and has quite the interesting pre-made map. Besides a lack of features, the frame rate can often take a few dives, and this is not only apparent on my machine (which can run Battlefield 4 on high settings) but on a few others as well.… Expand
  12. Creardo
    Jan 30, 2015
    5
    Weird game, full of possibilities, but still weird. It´s not fun to see zombies climbing to the ceiling to pursue you. It´s cool to realize that a good thninking effort was put in some aspects, like the crafting system etc. But afterall, the game is very far from a masterpiece, and yet on everyday gaming, it´s boring aand sincerely doesnt deserve more than a 6.
  13. havrillal
    Aug 18, 2020
    6
    Nem rossz, de van hova fejlődnie. Bugos, csúnya viszont a hangulat 10/10, azt megkell hagyni. Viszont az ára nem éri meg
  14. Drakman
    Aug 12, 2020
    7
    Another game I've put wayyy too much time into. Love the game, I wish it went somewhere, it's a bit too much of a sandbox with no structure though. Tons of fun...but eventually I just run out of anything I care about doing. I suspect this game will never reach 'release' status. I just tend to play it everyime there is a new major update. Tons of unrealized potential, but has shownAnother game I've put wayyy too much time into. Love the game, I wish it went somewhere, it's a bit too much of a sandbox with no structure though. Tons of fun...but eventually I just run out of anything I care about doing. I suspect this game will never reach 'release' status. I just tend to play it everyime there is a new major update. Tons of unrealized potential, but has shown significant improvement with every update.… Expand
  15. kreativ213
    Mar 3, 2021
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Лучшая выживалка песочница, которую я когда-либо играл. Строй оборонительные сооружения. Лутай дома, находи потайные бункеры. Убивай толпы зомби.… Expand

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  1. CD-Action
    Sep 4, 2024
    70
    After whopping 10 years spent in Steam’s Early Access, 7 Days to Die still feels unfinished, which makes it quite difficult to evaluate. My reason tells me to tear this game apart for tons of bugs and pretty much non-existent optimization, but my heart wants to give it a high rating. After all, I spent over a hundred hours in it and had fun for most of that time.
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  2. Try Hard Guides
    Jul 29, 2024
    80
    7 Days to Die, in my opinion, is dated in a lot of ways. Some of the mechanics feel unnecessarily tedious, the game doesn’t look incredible, and the engine is undoubtedly on its last legs. In other ways, however, the game is revolutionary, featuring a core mechanic loop that I am shocked no other games have replicated and a surprising amount of player freedom in its gameplay. If nothing else, 7 Days to Die will quickly become the next Stardew Valley or Rogue, inspiring a variety of new games and becoming the forefather of its own genre.
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