7 Days to Die
Release Date: July 25, 2024
Action, FPP, zombie, post-apocalypse, sandbox, horror, survival, crafting, multiplayer, singleplayer, internet
Steam
A post-apocalyptic sandbox FPS developed by a debuting indie studio The Fun Pimps. The game takes you to a near future, when a nuclear war allowed a dangerous virus to spread across the entire world. The virus kills its victims in 7 days, as the title suggests, and turns them into bloodthirsty zombies. You play as one of the few not infected people, fighting for survival in Navezgane County, Arizona.
Videos and Screens
[1:50] 7 Days to Die 7 Days to Die - 1.0 Gameplay Trailer
[1:36] 7 Days to Die gameplay trailer #1
The main pros of the game
- Engaging Gameplay: Players enjoy the combination of survival, crafting, and horror elements. The game offers a unique experience with a mix of exploration, resource gathering, and base building.
- Constant Updates: Users appreciate the developers' commitment to regular updates, which have significantly improved the game over the years.
- Multiplayer Experience: Playing with friends enhances the fun factor, making the game more enjoyable and social.
- Customization and Freedom: The game allows for extensive customization in building bases and crafting items, providing players with a sense of creativity and ownership.
- Atmospheric Horror Elements: Many players find the game genuinely scary, especially during night raids and horde nights, contributing to a thrilling experience.
The main cons of the game
- Performance Issues: Users frequently mention problems with optimization, including low frame rates and crashes, particularly in larger cities or during horde nights.
- Repetitive Gameplay: Some players feel that the game can become monotonous after extensive play, especially once they have mastered the mechanics and resources.
- Price Concerns: Many reviews express that the game?s current price is too high compared to its perceived value, especially given its long development time and the lack of new content in recent updates.
- Overhaul of Mechanics: The shift from a skill-based progression system to a loot-based system has frustrated some players, making the game feel more grindy and less engaging.
The features or elements that are missing from the game according to users
- Endgame Content: Several players desire more objectives or "endgame" goals to pursue after reaching a high level or completing the main content.
- Improved Resource Management: Users have criticized the removal of reusable items (like jars for water) and have suggested more intuitive ways to gather and manage resources.
- NPCs and Bandits: There is a call for the inclusion of NPC bandits or survivors to make the game world feel more alive and dynamic.
- Enhanced Crafting System: Some players wish for a return to a more complex crafting system that allows for greater flexibility and creativity, rather than relying heavily on finding specific books for skills.
- Boss Enemies or Unique Challenges: A few users have expressed interest in having boss encounters or larger, unique enemies to add variety and challenge to the gameplay.
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GAMERS Score
Average score from 261 votes. 824 players anticipated the game.
7 Days to Die Description
7 Days to Die is a sandbox FPS set in post-apocalyptic world, released for PC, PS4 and XONE. It is the debut project of The Fun Pimps Entertainment studio.
Plot
The game takes place in the near future, after the nuclear war of 2034 led to the almost complete annihilation of human civilization. To make things worse, many of the survivors were infected by a virus that kills the within seven days of infection and then changes its carriers into zombies. Players take on the role of member of a group of survivors trying to get by in the fictional American county of Navezgane. Its name comes from the language of one of the Apache tribes and means “Killer of Monsters”, and that’s exactly our new profession.
Gameplay
7 Days to Die for PC, PS4 and XONE is set in an open-world environment, consisting in large part of voxels. The game enables you to destroy most of the environment, employing a complex physics engine, which calculates the durability of every object. One of the game's positive qualities is the wide variety of locations: we explore e.g. towns, forests, deserts, and mountains. It is praiseworthy that the players can enter every building they encounter.
The game’s world is inhabited not only by zombies – more often than note we will also have to deal with mutants, with hunger and thirst being equally deadly enemies. Survival is made easier thanks to the crafting system that has the players search for resources and allows them to create new items. All presented in an intuitive way, rendering online guides unnecessary. There is also the option of fixing and upgrading existing buildings. The gameplay is enriched with RPG features which enable you to develop your character’s skills.
Game modes
When it comes to plot, the game provides us with a system that adjusts the story to our actions, always giving us something to do. Aside from single player, the game features online modes – both cooperative and competitive.
Last updated on December 21, 2015
7 Days to Die Summary
Early Access:August 16, 2013
Platforms:
PC / Windows
PlayStation 5
Xbox Series X/S
PlayStation 4
Xbox One
Developer: The Fun Pimps Entertainment
Publisher: The Fun Pimps Entertainment
7 Days to Die System Requirements
PC / Windows
Minimum: Quad Core 2.8 GHz, 8 GB RAM, graphic card 2 GB GeForce GTX 660 or better, 15 GB HDD, Windows 10 64-bit
Recommended: Quad Core 3.2 GHz, 12 GB RAM, graphic card 4 GB GeForce GTX 970 or better, 15 GB HDD, Windows 10/11 64-bit
How to Play 7 Days to Die 1.0 (7DtD) Experimental
7 Days to Die is a survival game that will be soon released in full version. From this guide you will learn how to enable Experimental mode.
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