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2,077 Hours played
As might be evidenced by a quick glance through my profile, I own a lot of games. I spend a lot of time gaming. I'm disabled and I use games as a way to help manage my pain, depression, and anxiety, and I'm a Twitch streamer when I can manage around my health (and I moderate even when I can't manage to actually stream), so you could say I know a LOT about the gaming industry from the player side. I've been gaming since I was about 4 or 5 years old and my Dad let me play with him on his Intellivision with him. (Burger Time was one of the ones we both liked).

Anyway, I have been in gaming for years and I have played a LOT of various styles over the course of time. Dungeon Crawlers and Survival games tend to be the ones I come back to and spend most of my time in for long hours, with the exception of games like the Sims. So 7 Days to Die really grabbed me and has never really let go. The game just has a certain something, an almost addictive feeling that you begin to appreciate more and more as you get used to things in the game as you learn the recipes, the crafting system, and kill zombies (and animals) as you try to survive in a world that explains the "What happens after the world gets hit with an apocalypse scenario?" It's up to you to survive, gather resources, and make a safe place to hide or take out the enemies when they come when the blood moon hits. (That's where the 7 Days title comes in, but you can change those settings when you set up your game. Some people make it much harder by setting EVERY night to be a blood moon and some people make it once a month or every 30 days. You can go anywhere in between.) The game even let's you adjust the difficulty of the zombies within limits (how fast they walk and how aggressive they are during the Blood Moon vs normally). You can control how often you get supply drops. The possibilities are endless.

Not that it's without flaws - heaven knows it has plenty. There are bugs and glitches enough to drive anyone crazy. The game has been in early access for 7 years, I believe, with no signs of a full release coming soon. The devs are actively updating, yes, but each update can undo all the progress players make as easily as it makes improvements in the game and sometimes the improvements don't really seem to happen, the updates just seem to cause more game breaks. So items in the game are almost completely useless. Things that should be supremely helpful -- like the radiation suits, do almost nothing but keep you dry in the weather. They provide no protection in the radiated areas of the map -- the areas that are 'unexplored'. It's too easy to get vehicles lost or have them glitch or get stuck somewhere you can't retrieve them. I've even had a hole appear in the map that has lead to free falling forever several times.

HOWEVER!! This is overall still a fantastic game and definitely worth playing, especially if you can get a group of friends together and start your own server after you have mastered a few of the basics, or at least a few of you have and can help the others survive for a little while. This game is MEANT to have survivors help each other. It's fine if one person wants to go it alone, but they are going to have a much more difficult experience and the game will only make it harder for them. The number of zombies spawned is calculated based on the total number of players on the server, not just that single person, so they may easily get overwhelmed if they are a new player.

Oh, one final note... This game does a very interesting job blending different climates together. The maps all have snowy areas, forests, deserts, and a stretch of land that is burnt and full of ash and coals. There are also bodies of water that you can cross (some of which the zombies have trouble with), but be careful not to drown! There do not appear to be any in game boats at this point. That would be something I would like to be able to craft in the future, even just a raft or something to cross the lakes and some of the larger bodies of water. And weather and heat can effect the player just as much as the animals and zombie attacks. So can hunger, thirst, and getting an infection. There are a lot of things to watch, so this game has a STEEP learning curve, just like most survival horror games. But once you get past it, this game is a lot of fun. I mean, I do have over 800 hours in it, lol.