Horror games are a small market share

[Palladin888]

I would love to see this game platform go mainstream. I do not think it ever will because horror games are such a small nitch market. I am not a fan of horror games at all. I love this game thought and push myself to play even though I hate the horror aspect of it. I would much rather be fighting dark elves, trolls, goblins, Orks ext....

I bet this game platform would skyrocket sails if they were to introduce skin packs that let you chose a fantasy or scifi skin pack.

The game also needs lots of work on the Multiplayer aspect. I'be never even seen a server that will host more than 70 players and when a server has that many people it is not smooth. This may be a hardware issue thought as I am not sure what hardware the servers I play on use.

[Shurenai]

Speaking to the latter comment, on multiplayer- The game is built and intended for 1-8 players; 16 as an absolute maximum. Dedicated servers can set this value higher; But the game is not at all set up or intended to handle anywhere over 16 at the absolute maximum- And even then, the intended player count is 1-8.

So no, you really wont see m/any servers with player counts way up at 70; Or even 50 or 30 or 20. And this isn't something likely to change from the developers end; 1-8 player co-op is their intended target.

As to the skins; the whole point of a zombie game is to...have zombies. I find it unlikely they'd go out of their way to make skin packs. Modders on the other hand might, but, i still consider it unlikely.

[SuperMeatBag]

Left4Dead both 1 and 2 outsold Half-Life 2 by quite some degree, I think maybe the niche market you describe is bigger than you indicate. And as Shurenai rightly says, this is a zombie game and should remain as such (in my opinion).

[Seftak]

Hmmmmmm pretty sure you should be playing another game if you have no intetest for zombies and expect a PVP mmo...

[Incunabulum]

A 'skin' pack doesn't really do anything if the reskinned zombies still run around and act like zombies.

[Papoye]

Empyrion galactic survival is very close to 7Daystodie and is an excelllent game in devellopement.

Imagine a heroic fantasy game made with this engine,made with the same talent as this two teams.
Generate fantasy world on the fly,to play with your friends,Dungeons as POI etc....

[Palladin888]

Originally posted by Papoye:

Empyrion galactic survival is very close to 7Daystodie and is an excelllent game in devellopement.

Imagine a heroic fantasy game made with this engine,made with the same talent as this two teams.
Generate fantasy world on the fly,to play with your friends,Dungeons as POI etc....

I play Empyrion also. A fully open destructible world and the ability to build stuff is awesome in that game as it is in this game.

I know this game platform is capable of so much more even in it's current state. I want to see it become more mainstream and to push future games to be as good.

[Crater Creator]

7 Days to Die is one of the 100 top selling Steam games of all time. (source). You may not like horror games at all, and that's fine, but there's no way this is a small niche market.

Besides which, this game crosses so many genres. Some people think of it as a tower defense game, a role playing game, a survival game, a sandbox game... I could go on. So even if horror wasn't in vogue, horror isn't the first tag a lot of people would slap on 7DtD anyway.

I know of a Medieval Mod and a Sorcery Mod, either of which you may enjoy. I think they're more about fantasy weapons than fantasy enemies, but as Shurenai suggests mods would be your best path to what you're looking for. The developers have said that, even when they get the promised bandits in, zombies will always be the primary antagonists in this game.

[SiEgE]

Originally posted by Palladin888:

I would love to see this game platform go mainstream. I do not think it ever will because horror games are such a small nitch market. I am not a fan of horror games at all. I love this game thought and push myself to play even though I hate the horror aspect of it. I would much rather be fighting dark elves, trolls, goblins, Orks ext....

I bet this game platform would skyrocket sails if they were to introduce skin packs that let you chose a fantasy or scifi skin pack.

The game also needs lots of work on the Multiplayer aspect. I'be never even seen a server that will host more than 70 players and when a server has that many people it is not smooth. This may be a hardware issue thought as I am not sure what hardware the servers I play on use.

This game is not a horror(at least not really), as neither any zombie shooter is. It may produce some feelings around being scary or disgusting, but that is pretty much all you'll ever get "horror-wise".
It is barely a survival horror as well. My automatic turrets and my M16 are here to prove that.

To your luck, this platform is highly moddable, so you can add as much elves, trolls, goblins and orks as you wish.

[FT]

I remember seeing some gameplay of 7Days using some of the medieval or sorcery mods. I believe there were dragon enemies that were a little smaller than the current in-game cars, many wondering NPCs (I think, though I might be mixing it up with something else) and you could ride a horse.
However, I think most of the added monster/animal movements looked really stiff and unnatural. And I think the NPC/villagers were generally hostile as soon as you looted their place (unless, I'm mixing the NPCs up with another game).

[Sticky White Stuff]

Sorry, but no. They are not a niche market. Capcom has proved it that with the right set of features, Survival Horror games can be mainstream no matter how hard they are, REmake1 HD, RE:Zero, REvelations, REmake2, REmake3, RE7, etc.

Besides, this is a survival game with horror elements, not a horror game and not a survival horror game (Survival Horror game being a game set in a specific location with limited ammo management, inventory management, backtracking and puzzles ala Resident Evil/Dino Crisis). Not to be confused with surviving and horror.

Yes. i am also waiting for a low fantasy game such as this, but don't get your hopes up.
Try Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. No world building, but an impressive immersive sim with great combat and objectives.
There is also Mount & Blade where you can roleplay if you wish. Warband or Bannerlord. No building, again, but there are trades, weapons, factions and much more.

[Blue Hasia]

86,000+ reviews.

I say this game is one of the popular games on steam

this game is mainstream, its one of the top games to play with friends on steam.

[Laser Pickle]

Just because you don't like the horror genre doesn't make it a niche market, silly. :)

[THEUncleTim]

Originally posted by Papoye:

Empyrion galactic survival is very close to 7Daystodie and is an excelllent game in devellopement.

Imagine a heroic fantasy game made with this engine,made with the same talent as this two teams.
Generate fantasy world on the fly,to play with your friends,Dungeons as POI etc....

Emperion would have hooked me if the mining had been more like 7D. However if the 2 games merged somehow, Zombieees in SPACCCCCEEEE would be ok with me

[SylenThunder]

Of the more than 5000 games in my collection, I'd say that easily 25% of them are horror. People like to get scared in a safe environment, so it's not an uncommon genre.

Hell look at the demand that still exists for PT. That wasn't even a partially developed game. It barely went anywhere.

[Crater Creator]

Originally posted by UncleTim:

Originally posted by Papoye:

Empyrion galactic survival is very close to 7Daystodie and is an excelllent game in devellopement.

Imagine a heroic fantasy game made with this engine,made with the same talent as this two teams.
Generate fantasy world on the fly,to play with your friends,Dungeons as POI etc....

Emperion would have hooked me if the mining had been more like 7D. However if the 2 games merged somehow, Zombieees in SPACCCCCEEEE would be ok with me

Coincidentally, I just found out that Space Pirates and Zombies has some nice general purpose emoticons.