7 Days to Die

 Xbox One
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5.5

Mixed or average reviews- based on 128 Ratings

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  1. Positive: 58 out of 128
  2. Mixed: 17 out of 128
  3. Negative: 53 out of 128
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  1. mongoman
    Sep 4, 2016
    6
    This is more an informative over view than a review, I've only spent a small amount of time with game so far but its not total crap. First of all, it does contain a tutorial (play the single player mode first and it will guide you through a tutorial. Secondly, the graphics and sound are atrocious for this generation. Third, this is not minecraft so the building, upgrading takes time (justThis is more an informative over view than a review, I've only spent a small amount of time with game so far but its not total crap. First of all, it does contain a tutorial (play the single player mode first and it will guide you through a tutorial. Secondly, the graphics and sound are atrocious for this generation. Third, this is not minecraft so the building, upgrading takes time (just like real life) yes you must scavenge for items but they are not difficult to find. the controls are difficult to adjust to and the fighting is harder than most games. I got killed by a bear my first playthrough and honestly I felt like I had no chance of survival.I can see lots of potential here and I like the creative aspects. I can't say the game is perfect because it is not but with a little patience and fair minded gameplay it is worth a look. If your looking for a scary minecraft or a five star horror blockbuster than you'll hate it. It is essentially a work in progress at this point.… Expand
  2. stefangl
    Jul 21, 2016
    7
    No entiendo por que tantas malas criticas, el juego solamente cuesta 30.00 dolares. El juego no tiene unas graficas imprecionantes, pero son mejores que las de minecraft en su totalidad. 7 days to die es un juego entretenido, donde tienes que explorar y buscar refujio para poder sobrevivir. Es mas divertido cuando estas jugando con amistades.
  3. 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
  4. SaiyanSpiderman
    Jun 29, 2016
    7
    Having only played one days worth of the game I cannot say a lot. What there is hidden underneath a buggy and not that pretty looking game is a fun co-op zombie survival crafting game that has me wanting to dive back into my game world as soon as I can again to continue to loot, build, and survive. I definitely recommend playing this game with 3 other friends but seeing as if you log offHaving only played one days worth of the game I cannot say a lot. What there is hidden underneath a buggy and not that pretty looking game is a fun co-op zombie survival crafting game that has me wanting to dive back into my game world as soon as I can again to continue to loot, build, and survive. I definitely recommend playing this game with 3 other friends but seeing as if you log off your server goes down with you this makes it hard to have a persistent world that your friends will want to keep coming back to with you if your schedules are a bit different. I recommend having you and your friends making multiple private games that way no matter who is on you have a game to join. Traversal is a bit slow going and the world is pretty big but that will make exploring the whole world an interesting and long endeavor. Maybe after another week of playing I'll come back and update my playing experience. Until then good luck in the wasteland.… Expand
  5. UltraDude
    May 23, 2018
    6
    Boring without friends, game runs like crap also.........................................
  6. SurestRoxas
    Jun 4, 2018
    5
    The survival part of the game is not very good as it is almost impossible to craft good weapons or items as all you find are empty cans or paper. The amount of items built into this game is enormous, like 40 times what minecraft has but honestly most of it is not useful.
  7. aarone2
    Aug 18, 2020
    6
    This game was actually pretty fun to play with friends, but it is neglected and very glitchy. The developers left the game to die on console. They don’t update it at all anymore. The survival, exploration and crafting system are pretty good. The worst part are the graphics and glitches. I lost 1/2 of my items because my chest was outside of the “place land block” region. The game neverThis game was actually pretty fun to play with friends, but it is neglected and very glitchy. The developers left the game to die on console. They don’t update it at all anymore. The survival, exploration and crafting system are pretty good. The worst part are the graphics and glitches. I lost 1/2 of my items because my chest was outside of the “place land block” region. The game never said what this block did, so I just randomly placed it down. Overall fun game, but glitches like that really kill the experience.… Expand
  8. Boreddummy
    Apr 26, 2022
    7
    Amazing game But DO NOT PLAY MULTIPLAYER, it will constantly crash and it won't save your progress I've played for 100 hours and it's a good game over all but the multiplayer is frickin garbage it's worst then the Roblox servers
  9. PorchBandit
    Dec 28, 2022
    5
    Oddly enough, the game is not able to be reviewed for PC. This is strange and probably because Xbox and Playstation have stricter rules on selling/classifying products Early access.

    I will admit since I'm doing this for the console version I can't give it any more than a 5 because I did play it on console and it was incredibly janky and poorly ported especially with regards to the    Oddly enough, the game is not able to be reviewed for PC. This is strange and probably because Xbox and Playstation have stricter rules on selling/classifying products Early access.

    I will admit since I'm doing this for the console version I can't give it any more than a 5 because I did play it on console and it was incredibly janky and poorly ported especially with regards to the controls. If my review were for PC it would likely get a higher mark. And all my experiences I'll mention in the written section are mostly PC. It's a fun game. With a notable amount of jank. I'm pretty forgiving with that jank because it seems to be part of the charm but also because of what it tries to do. Some jank I dislike but much of it is just goofy fun in this game character models are gross but the modern versions zombies are pretty nice. The buildings and landscapes aren't the prettiest but the flexibility with building/digging/deconstruction makes it hard to truly make a breathtaking world. There are Some weird pathing issues and weird building restrictions but for the most part the game seems to function as intended.

    One complaint I've heard is how the devs seem to "fight the player base" adding enemy mechanics to defeat certain strategies. I don't know where I stand with that. On one hand it would be frustrated to have a ironclad defense just to have zombies dig under me though I commend the effort into keeping the players fresh and on their toes and I will say, as a whole they give you allot of options to customize difficulty outside of just easy, medium, hard. The game can be grindy and unforgiving but I had no issues when I tailored the difficulty to my liking.

    Auto generated maps are fun but definitely a source of allot of said jank. I don't hate this game by any stretch and have got my money's worth out of it. If you tend to have problems with less than gorgeous 4k games...probably don't buy. If you don't like horde mode games you can turn it off. Overall it's a fairly basic survival game experience but can be dull at points, especially if you turn off hordes completely. HOWEVER, I know on console the port just didn't feel very good. And actually felt frustrating to get used to. If your PC can handle it or you mean to get one soon I'd hold off. And Make sure you have friends to play with.    … Expand

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#25 Most Discussed Xbox One Game of 2016
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#13 Most Shared Xbox One Game of 2016

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35

Generally unfavorable reviews - based on 17 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 17
  3. Negative: 14 out of 17
  1. Game Over Online
    Aug 9, 2016
    30
    It is with a heavy heart that I tell you, dear reader, to avoid this game at all costs. It barely qualifies as the sum of the features it claims, and this port was given absolutely zero effort in making it functional for a console audience. Robbing a real “fun pimp” of thirty dollars will provide you with a more satisfying experience in survival horror than this thing will.
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  2. Windows Central
    Jul 24, 2016
    50
    With a user interface barely optimized for controllers and a release three years after its initial alpha, it feels that consoles are a mere afterthought of the original vision.
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  3. The Digital Fix
    Jul 19, 2016
    40
    7 Days to Die had the potential to be something impressive but with frequent glitches and game freezes it falls well short of being the game it could so easily be.
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