For all the content this game has, it is amazing! A bit buggy at times however no bug ruins the game even if you get launched to space and die falling down on impact for no reason at all.

However, the game has completely failed me on unfair hackers. Every server I am on I get hacked. If its PvP and I kill someone, they hack me and kill me back unfairly. If you see Mandarin (Chinese) name tags, They'll fly around and hit you once to kill you and take your stuff. The game has a lot of content however does not provide a successful revenue to report Hacking which completely ruins the game. Since I have no revenue to report players I'll post the name and server of one player who inspired me to write this review: Server: Naked and Afraid. Player: RazorThreader.

Players believe its just Chinese people that hack the game, however, if you simply google how to hack 7dtd you'll find endless sources. Any player on this game can hack you if they feel like it. Wreck your base. Kill you and take your backpack. The overall idea of the game is great but has been completely ruined by imcompetance with dealing with hackers. The only way to stop players from cheating is to buy your own server and password protect it. That basically ensures you have no multiplayer experience whatsoever. I'm moving on to Day Z and Miscreated. Hopefully the Developers will actually care about their player base and disallow hackers to take advantage of players that grind for good games.

This game is pretty great. I love the crafting system. If I were in the midst of a zombie apocalypse with literal tons of wood in my backpack, I would for sure craft bows while hiding in my base at night. Crafting in fear is the best form of it.

If you can play with friends cooperatively, I would highly recommend it.

Eventually you'll become much more powerful from when you started, thanks to the skill system. Even if you lose everything, you can still get your footing back.

Watch out for dogs.

7 Days to Dog.

+in-depth customizations
+in-depth building
+Great co-op pve experience

-graphics
-optimization
-I can't play since alpha 11, cause of the poor/no optimization
-one of the most pathethic random gen

I still hope it will be great once, somewhere in the far future...

Game sucks, landen is a homo.

I have finally got around to writing this review. There are many pros and a few cons to this game, one being the fact that it can be buggy at times (which is understandable considering it is in Alpha). However the pros certainly outweigh the cons with this game, though many are skeptical about buying early access survival games after DayZ this game looks almost certain to go all the way to completion with regular updates.
Pros:
-Great online community when I started out some players even helped me build a huge bridge across a couple of hills and surrounded it by miles of spikes
-Great graphics for the style of game that it is
-Getting more and more realistic as time goes on to the point where it is hard to find flaws in the realism (aside from the crafting and build system which still could use some work)
-Large array of zombies, towns, stores, items etc etc.

Cons:
-As I mentioned before it is quite buggy and I will mention specific bugs at the end of the review
-You are not able to live out the game in a forest living off the land and you are forced to explore to get better items and blocks to survive the 7th night
-No people so it gets lonely on single player (looks like this could be getting added in?)
-Once you have a forge, you have won the game because suddenly everything becomes available and the only thing left to do is raid bookstores until you have the schematics/recipes for everything

Improvements (here's a few improvements if this is ever read by the developers) and bugs:
-I know this is an old one but when I smash a zombies head they remain standing when dead
-Trees sometimes fade away when chopped and even when chopped are like hollow tubes from the rear
-torches when placed on the ground and not touching a wall still have the stand where the wall should be (maybe add a stand underneath for when it is not against another block)
-More things required to craft stuff other than a forge
-Dogs sometimes dont do a walking motion and slide across the ground to you
-Drinking water from a sink or toilet and adding in a clean source of water that you can get like a well
-People in fortresses and stuff armed with guns to add a new threat to the name and a new challenge
-different corpses that have been looted rather than just one

Great game in its early access form, very fun to play and cant wait for alpha 15

10/10 Would write suggestions in review page again

the reason wy im giving this game a thumbs down is everytime i click play it loads for like5 minutes and then quit suddenly, idk why, pls fix? i dont think the problem is on my computer

"HOW LONG WILL YOU SURVIVE?", to quote "The Fun Pimps", and sadly the answer is both "many many weeks" and "about a day or so...maybe?".
7 Days to die is obviously inspired from the typical apocalyptic scenario that you see in games like Unturned, Project Zomboid, and god knows what else. It's a cookie-cutter scenario that starts [Insert Name Here] into the wilderness and forces them to beat the ♥♥♥♥ out of mother nature until you can strap on some armor and own their entire planet. While ravaging the planet of its trees, rocks, and plants, as well as pillaging towns of all their resources, you will gain skill points to make your character even better. But make no mistake, playing solo you will not last. There's simply not enough time to prepare.

Let's get into the meat of this game- the survival, the combat, the immersion, things like that.

As far as a story goes, there is none. You live in a mostly woodlanded planet where zombies seem to be the main habitant, and you as the space invader, a human, must genocide their race while holding off against their forces trying to detain you.
As far as survival goes, you probalby already know. You loot food, eat essentially dog ♥♥♥♥ for a week until you have some nice fancy food, like grilled meat, then you eat like a king and never worry about food or water storage. The ♥♥♥♥♥♥ thing about this game is that is gives you the illusion that fortifying a position will make you safe, or at least safer. However, the only way for you to actually survive what the game calls a "Seven Day Horde" (a horde that spawns every 7 days) is to literally flood the outside of your house in its entirety in layers upon layers of spikes. My friends and I refer to this as an "Ocean of Spikes". Without an ocean of spikes; maybe you just put one layer? Yeah, the zombies will flood into one block, break that spike, then all break in through there. Do you think upgrading your fortress's doors will prevent them from coming in? They'll just tunnel under your house and make it collapse and kill you. Fortified your floor? They'll just go through a random wall piece. In the end, even though you spend plenty of time barricading and fortifing your position, you'll never have a base that can work.

Okay- Okay, maybe i'm just being hard on the game. How is the combat? Horrible. It's somehow less responsive then games that are made flash. Most of the time if you melee a zombie it will get stuck INSIDE OF YOU and begin "Stunning" you. Stunning means you can't move and have a SEVERELY delayed attack speed. With the zombie being inside you you'll likely not be able to hit it, so most of the time melee is a huge risk and should never be done. Not that some melee's aren't good, like the ones that 1-shot zombies, but it's still a HUGE risk early game and will likely result in you dying. Shooting though, what about shooting? Yeah firearms seem to work relatively how you'd expect, except for the silly condition system. Basically, "Faulty" level guns will break if you even stare at them the wrong way, and if their conditionfalls too low it won't fire anymore.

Tl:Dr Singleplayer is just a goofy, buggy, horrible experience. So why not try multiplayer?

Holy. ♥♥♥♥. is multiplayer bad. When the game first came out I was able to run with about 50~ fps at all times, with a 12gb of ram processor. Now I have to edit the game settings to have PAST THE MAXIMUM LOW REQUIREMENTS to maintain a steady 40 fps. Otherwise i'm stuck at 15-20. I have no idea how on earth they managed to make multiplayer worst throughout the game's development, but they did. Not to mention the zombies are infinately more buggy, often teleport to you, and are overall just annoying. Throw in zombies spawning around you randomly and nearly killing you ( due to....de...sync?), and due to other things like Screamers (zombies that spawn other zombies) being able to spawn OTHER SCREAMERS, you'll likely be almost as ♥♥♥♥ed as you were playing singleplayer.

I understand most of the company's money has already been made, so maybe they're not really giving a ♥♥♥♥ about how their game runs, but my god is it broken. It's a buggy mess that is very poorly optimized and damn near unplayable in its current state.

Oh, I almost forgot, let's go through a list of other random bugs or ♥♥♥♥♥♥ gameplay mechanics you'll run into through out this game!
*Often times you'll be exploring and find a giant mountain, for no reason, just a narrow point in the middle of the road like a planet-sized boner.
*You get a severe speed debuff when running up a hill, but zombies still go their normal speed (and if hit you will slide back down further into the horde chasing you).
*Random climate changes, from sunny morning to rainstorm to a snowstorm in a matter of ONE IN GAME HOUR.
*Sometimes upgrading a ground-level block will cause the entire building to collapse around you (I'm not even ♥♥♥♥ing kidding, imagine building an entire base on another game, like minecraft, only to have the last block blow your entire house up).
* Often times on multiplayer you'll see other players contorting their body hilarously into themselves. Not even sure how they coded that one.
*Dogs will always be faster than you and will always slow you down to a crawl if they touch/bite you, which basically means dogs = death
*You can die from fall damage, or at least break your legs, but zombies can't die from fall damage.
*Zombie corpses on the ground will slow you, so even if you manage to kille 2 or 3 of them you'll just get stuck on their dead bodies and die to their zombie friends
*about 70% of the time you will spawn in a Wasteland, a charred area with no supplies, and die.
*Dying will result in you losing 10% of your max stamina and health (down to 70 for both, it used to let you go to ten).

I think this game really is ready for its console release.

i used to not have any issues with the game, just thought it was boring and never played. come back 8 months later and my whole screen turns red and these werid orbs corrupt my screen. ive never seen an animation bug so bad. game is complete garbage. DO NOT BUY IT!!!

i need help! i have tried launching the game countless times and it always gets to this screen where it says precaching files and never leaves 0% ive posted in the support fourms but no help was found there

I wish the 2-pack either worked or had a description. fun hame tho.