7 Days to Die

A ♥♥♥♥♥♥ buggy mess with no real end game. You just loop and loop till you get bored

Review for the 3.1.0 version of the game. I have a weird relationship with this game. About every year I decide to install it again and play it for about 2 weeks straight. Then I get to the end game and just drop it. There are good things I like about this game. I like how every block can be reshaped, so the game is not filled with variants of blocks like in Minecraft. I like how guns have different models for the same attachments, like with the pipe rifle scope and sniper rifle scope. Most of its problems stem from the strange development of this game. The devs would take away things like jars and temperature, things that added to the immersion of an apocalypse, then add things like storms and biome progression, which add nothing to the game and only serve to slow you down for no good reason. Despite this, I think the 3.0 update was one of the best updates in years, simply because it allowed you to turn off all of the bad decisions they added in previous updates. No new weapons or tools, so you are stuck using the same things over and over again. An RPG leveling system similar to Skyrim that used to be good, but was replaced with something boring. Zombies lack variety. The most you will get is the same zombie, but with a different colored shirt. Not to mention the jarring animations they have. The voxel system this game has is weird and janky, most noticeable when digging and mining. The game is strangely punishing for misplacing blocks, giving you its crafting materials instead of just the block. Sometimes not even enough to craft another. Points of Interest play more like dungeons rather than real buildings. This makes questing kind of boring, since in order to kill every zombie in an area, you must follow the "intended" route. Quests are boring. A magazine system that makes unlocking recipes based on RNG, even this games equivalent to a crafting table. Traders are locked to certain biomes, so you can't get the doctor or mechanic in a snow biome for some reason. Armor effects are terribly balanced. Some are terrible, while others have practically no downsides. A book system that lets you completely negate mechanics in the game. What's the point in having them if they are just going to be turned off later? Have not tried any mods, but I heard there were a couple of good ones. Would not recommend to someone interested. Especially for the price it is at.

Until you publicly apologize to Jawoodle for your own F**k up I am not touchin your game. It's bad enough you complain about reasonable feedback from your players.

I have personally played the game for a short while compared to others but i have known about this from around alpha 3 and watched it grow ever since The game used to be a fun survival game that would ask "how are you going to survive now" but nowadays it feels more like a scripted dungeon crawler/RPG that tells you "heres what you WILL do and how WE want you to survive" I have seen countless features get removed readded changed or compleatly remade instead of focusing on improving them By how the game has been going recently I can not recommend this game anymore

its just too repetitive, every animation feels stiff, has the look of free unity assets

eyy7667

Great game to play with a group of friends. This game's sandbox nature means that you will have a lot of ways to approach your character build, weapons you use, the way you craft, get food, create a base, make money and so much more. Because of its nature you end up using a lot of hours adventuring, testing and honing your skills. You get hooked quite easily even if you don't have experience from games of its genre. But once the honeymoon is over you will start to realize that the game has at the same time a lot of content and not enough of it. You start to realize how most cities look the same, how different biomes look similar, how the cities are empty with nobody to interact with, how quests are all the same. However my personal gripe with the game is the progression. First two Biomes have really low loot/game stage which determines what kind of loot you find, so you don't find any higher tier weapons, but once you go to any of the last three the stage is cranked to "over 9000" and you end up batting endgame loot away with a stick. You can easily end up with the best weapons of the game in under 7 days which is very counter intuitive and completely ruins the late game as well as defeats the purpose of learning to craft weapons. Still recommending highly to people who have never played this game.

Game dosent have ennough says its in "alpha" but its been in alpha since before i went to college. smothie system is dumn and renaming the smoothies is not "Fixing" the system. once u know that there are just quests in each zone with no variety it takes all the magic of survival out of it.