7 Days to Die players, why do you play 7 Days to Die?

[♡♥♡Wei♡♥♡]

TLDR; I love 7DTD, and there are great alternatives, but I’m also asking why this is your survival game of choice.

I love 7 Days to Die, I like the stress I get when I get to every 7th day or get some sort of affliction, I like fixing up old buildings into something I can live in, I like the scavenging, I love the need to always get stronger for every 7th day.

7 Days to Die still has a lot of jank to it, and I imagine that’s partially because it’s a voxel game, to me that’s worth it for the fun and the reward that 7DTD offers.

But I’d like to ask you guys why you play 7DTD over other titles.

I don’t like DayZ, I could never get into it but I asked over in those forums, and the points that were made about why they play DayZ is that you have to work for the satisfying moments, the constant sense of danger and being on edge all the time, and the permadeath.

There’s also Rust in which you build bases, and it’s a lot more PVP focused than 7DTD.
The gunplay’s much better, a lot more servers than on 7DTD, the building isn’t tied down to voxel mechanics of 7DTD.

There’s also the obvious comparison to another voxel game, Minecraft.
Minecraft’s a game where you can get things done a lot faster, no timer when crafting, things like trees break in much less time, building’s a lot easier and less janky.

There’s also more single player experiences like The Long Dark, The Forest, etc.

But yeah so like I said, why is it you play this game?

[Dreamer]

I don't play it, I'm eternally waiting for the next better version.

[BigRowdy]

because it is an amazing game

[atom heart]

I never play zombie/survival type games but when one of the channels I subscribe to started playing I became very keen to try it. I was drawn to the base building, crafting elements as an alternative to constant fighting of wave after wave of zombies. You can also set your own pace and customise your game settings to suit your playing style. When it was on sale late last year I bought it.

Considering that it does not yet have a story line implemented, it is a testament to the strength of the game play that it has thrived for so many years.

[AmsterdamHeavy]

I roam the earth alone. Nothing remains of humanity to disturb me; just these hollow shells.

[NoMan]

引用自 BubbasBasmntTutorial：

I roam the earth alone. Nothing remains of humanity to disturb me; just these hollow shells.

I thought they were asking about the game? This sounds more like real life...

[PK1]

Because as a COOP survival game, its the best one out there.
We play perma death, deleting the character file when you die.
I really need this to be a option in the settings FUN PIMPS!!

And...it can still scare me, when i'm night raiding a giant POI

[ECV]

I'd settle for a server side mod that let's me delete player files

But it would be cool if one could reset a player on death without having them to log out, specially with the memory leak that's bleeding ram on every logout.

[Prof.Dagon]

the building system is one of my favorites. simple blocks that are just then upgraded, and no need to carry 100+ slabs of pre fabricated steel walls, windows, doorways, only to find out you made one too many doorways that now have to be broken down for half the resources.

the gunplay is tight with some wonderful hit boxes. the zombies move around enough so you cant just get a headshot every time.

It has issues, but they are small and its got mods to fix them.

[Elm]

It has been my favorite game for many alphas. I like to shoot but that's not all I want to do. I like to build, but regular building games get boring if there's no danger. I love the challenge in the beginning of the game. Apparently I'm like Gimli, "Certainty of death, *small* chance of success... What are we waiting for?" I love starting poor and becoming a rich zombie apocalypse survivor with my 4 x 4 Jeep and my fancy refrigerator (hope they add those back in) and my black leather couches. I love having choices on how to set up my game and I love being able to mod it. I love looting, dungeons and wandering hordes. I like beating the zombies. I like surviving.

[Andy Mil]

Because there is no other open world destructible zombie game

I like farm in general which giving me Minecraft vein but the game turn it down now make it lot of tedious work to do farm

I do not like animation and stuff because it is so horrible and zombie are so clucky and can sometime attack you without it playing animation

it acting like anooying thing that only stare at u so close and u take damage while u attack them with giant sledgehammer and they will act like "is that all you got?"with sometime no or a little of knockback if u slightly miss because it not walk like normal zombie and they can go into rage and killing u

every attack is depend on crosshair..if u not aim into it then u miss and the zombie hitbox is so (censoring) small even using bow so close to them still miss

the whole game is tedious work which I can stand it but some people don't

FOV is horrible...character movement is horrible.. I bought the game because it promise NPC bandit because I interest in complex ai but they seem like forget about it now which i assume they add them when everything is ready

they update their engine which will take more resource from ur computer unlike back in the day even 32 bit computer can play the game

they added that zombie rage mode where u attack them there will be a chance for them to run
at first i dont know what it is so i comment here in forum but moderator delete my comment for 2 times until i finally have a chat with moderator that actually know how to act more civilize

i really don't like it
the whole zombie with rat maze skill able to pathfinding a way out is so weird for zombie genre

so low fps and gone to freeze when horde attack..it not even my server
why they not opt zombie instead?? that WWZ game can doing that large horde

then why they not picking up the gun and shoot back at us then?
because they are zombie but this game make them act like annoying thing

Now aday, I don't play the game anymore but i wait and see more what they going to do after this past F(censoring) 7 years...hope Half Life 3 not come out before them

[Mackenzie]

引用自 Raphael：

Because i'm too lazy to turn on my ps and play a proper zombie game with decent horde mechanics(days gone), so i'm here with my fat ass stuck playing this junk.

My goodness xD Straight to it huh

引用自 Wei Boi：

There’s also the obvious comparison to another voxel game, Minecraft.
Minecraft’s a game where you can get things done a lot faster, no timer when crafting, things like trees break in much less time, building’s a lot easier and less janky.

Minecraft does have some crafting timers. Specifically the furnace, brewing station, cauldron, campfires etc.

As for why I play the game, honestly a lot the same reasons you mentioned. Scavenging, patching up old structures in times of need or making my own base. Always in the prep mindset for the next horde night. Going for a trip down into a deep mine tunnel actually feels like you're off to a day at work at the mines. The strive for 600 quality items - or I guess 6 now, using a different set of new mechanics. All that good stuff.

I also absolutely love the really chaotic horde nights. Especially the ones when lots of your friends are on, drastically boosting the zombies in your vicinity count. Most of my friends like to camp out in structures, maybe a sniping post on horde nights but once I have a bit of armor, a few med kits/bandages, some beer and a good spiked club & pistol, then I have myself a fun time the whole night fighting them head on. Sometimes one or two friends will join me but they mostly just think I'm making very dumb decisions XD

[blazha]

引用自 PK1：

Because as a COOP survival game, its the best one out there.
We play perma death, deleting the character file when you die.
I really need this to be a option in the settings FUN PIMPS!!

And...it can still scare me, when i'm night raiding a giant POI

How does coop perma death work? One of you dies and you all delete your characters or you all die at same time? And, out of curiosity, how far do you get without dying?

[TSOG]

Game is fun, played it since before Steam. Endgame kinda sucks, and I wish they would add modding as a real thing. I expect if they did add it( I know they said they are) Who knows when. I expect if they did we would have tons of amazing stuff AND fixes for what TFP screw up and change over the year long patch. The game would be awesome in about a 1/4 of the time. Kinda like how ARK is better with mods.

[Tea Time]

I'm only playing it with a friend. PVE together in an online coop. Never PVP.

We just sticked with it we haven't found anything which can replace it.

We might try Outward if it will be on sale and cheap enough this summer sale.

[Andy Mil]

Yes, because no other game like it

they change that I can no longer skin the zombie and eat it rotten flesh like Minecraft to survive in high population server

I play with random people sometime too even it is PVP because I didn't know it was. people still working together