Worst Survival Game Ever? - 7 Days To Die

Come with me on my journey as I play every survival game ever in the hopes of finding the worst one!
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[@mrmechamac]

Alternate video title: Man struggles with the basics of playing a survival game.

[@dumbwaystokai]

Gonna call my next video 7 days to cry more

[@ELIKTRIK11]

@@dumbwaystokai WOW u really do live up to ur name u dumb ass a dying ant with scoliosis can play games better then you if you suck at playing games don't review them you twat getting rickets would be insightful then ur half assed reviews

[@davorgrcevic1867]

@@dumbwaystokai hey when SO MANY people disagree with you, maybe, just MAYBE it could cross your mind that maybe.maaaaaybe it's you who's the problem? No? No chance? Cool.

[@TyeTTR]

@@dumbwaystokaiDope, it’ll give you a whole next video to cry more.

[@andrewthegoat9383]

@@dumbwaystokai Are you inept with all content you create

[@ItaAndyOfficial]

Close to 2000 hours and Ill say this. This game is the BEST zombie game/survival game of all time! Replayability is infinite both in vanilla or with mods.

[@dandromeda1]

On PC maybe. On console its almost just a straight up scam. The "devs" are complete morons who have no clue what they're doing, literally worse than EA. Which is saying something. My only hope is that they go bankrupt and have to sell the ip to a real dev team who know what they're doing and actually care about the game.

[@donovan1345]

For me, it's a close tie. Both 7 Days and Project Zomboid are the best.

[@R0404]

The best up until Alpha 21. Some say up until 16.4. But definitely Alpha 21 sucks ass

[@TheRevelation_Official]

​@@donovan1345wait till 1.0 version. I believe it will become the best survival game out there

[@mr.satoru8736]

ngl the game took more than 2 weeks from me already with undead legacy mod

[@OsamaBinLooney]

hitting the zombies with fists, a torch, and a stone axe i can see how someone that is inept might not have a good time playing this i have to assume this is click bait

[@Necromectric]

just wait till this guy hears about minecraft

[@ferluisch]

at least there is knockback in that game

[@TheRevelation_Official]

Just wait till the full release of this game

[@mr.satoru8736]

@@ferluisch try using something else instead of a wooden club

[@solojo13]

You are right about one thing... you are "just a simple KZbinr."

[@iron_side5674]

My favourite part is where you completely ignored the very short Tutorial and made your "Fortress" out of Wafers.

[@WowSuchFrames]

He is clearly a loser in any game and in real life, he looks like he has no power of comprehension or learning or understanding

[@BearfootBob]

It's not a story game, which is refreshing sometimes. How much story do you need here? It's the Zombie Apocalypse. The story is what happens to you in the gameworld. The whole premise of the game - recurring and escalating Zombie Hordes - is all the explanation and motivation you need to explore and loot. My favorite way to play is Permadeath, and just see how far I can get. It's a unique situation each time, especially when using Random Worlds. Tons of fun Solo or with Friends. I have 650 hours. Highly recommend. One tip: you don't have to build a whole base, it's a lot of fun to repurpose the POI's for bases. That gives you better immersion, and gives you more time in the early-game for finding resources.

[@Hushey]

There is lore tho!

[@Gauron.]

You dont necessearly need a story but when you have an NPC giving you quest the minimum is to have some story to why that npc wants that. Like he has these fetch quests with buried stuff but we never see where he gets the info or the cleaning missions, why do you want this house empty 3 kms away from your base? Whats the point?

[@Hushey]

@@Gauron. I agree the trader is stupid! Always play with them turned off

[@BearfootBob]

@@Gauron. from an RPG standpoint, the only thing that's worked for me playing 7 Days is to adopt the point of view that I am clearly in some kind of hell plane. I can't die. I keep seeing the same dozen or so dead people who try to kill me over and over. I have insatiable hunger, I compulsively break all my glass jars, I talk to myself, kill zombies, scavenge, and build. The Traders exist more logically in the context of multiplayer + a gameworld populated by other Scavengers, so yes for solo play, need to assume those other NPCs exist in the background somewhere.

[@htewing]

Idk. Personally, I'd love to find the guy that dumped me in the middle of the Zombie Wasteland in my skivvies.

[@sylvainstucker7753]

Hi! not sure if you actually tried to learn the game before you started or are just doing click bait. I have over 7000 hours in this game playing the vanilla and modded versions. You can make this game very easy or extremely difficult. It takes time to understand the zombie AI which has been tweaked many times over. From my perspective of this video you had no clue of what you were doing so for you to critique a game that you have no understanding is unfair to the developers and all people that play this game.

[@mxsmitzz2235]

Bahahah it’s like one of those game reviewers saying doom eternal is bad because they’re so shit at video games they can’t do simple platforming

[@Unknownhorrorofhoxxes]

I like the game but I can’t play any higher than nomad difficulty because I keep forgett about stamina

[@mxsmitzz2235]

@@Unknownhorrorofhoxxes that’s just a skill issue. Play souls games. You’ll learn to always keep track of ur stamina

[@jellyb3ankilla]

Would you say it’s worth getting for multiplayer? I want to play something similar to rust but not rust it looks dope

[@mxsmitzz2235]

@@jellyb3ankilla it’s a different experience from rust completely. If u have friends or even just a friend to play with u, yea. You’ll have an amazing time. I had a world past day 300 with me and about 5 friends, but it was mainly just me and my best friend on it most of the time. And it was months of nothing but fun. We’d spend almost every day on it and that was just the console version. Didn’t even have all the new stuff

[@joshwray-doherty5704]

13:49 You dont have to build wood blocks and upgrade each and every one, you can just make cobblestone blocks in the first place

[@drpepp.]

I still Upgrade them from scratch it gives massiv ep

[@kingkorva5720]

I came here to say this

[@silaswilbur]

​@@drpepp.Yeah and it's kinda satisfying

[@carlos4598]

You can also use the claw hammer to speed up the upgrade process

[@drpepp.]

@@carlos4598 i would use the nailgun it Upgrades the Blocks instantly you can easly get 2-4 levels in 5 min upgrading the Blocks from wood to concreate

[@JohnDoe-fp3gk]

7 Days to Die is fucking Amazing, end of story.

[@dzudemlow]

Yeah, it's a massive git gud issue and I can only laugh at this guy struggling in vanilla 7DTD lol. Give him some Darkness Falls and he'd end himself probably. Shits on the best survival game of all time by calling it the worst. Actually insane. But hey, name of the channel checks out I guess.

[@DiverseArtist]

You only played the basic tutorial. The game gets absolutely insane as time goes on. One of my top 3 favorite games ever to exist. I got all my friends into it too. You never really gave it a chance..

[@milesrost6674]

lmao - This guy gets torn up in the comments!! Cheers

[@raghuls5914]

What are your other 2 favourite survival games?

[@GikamesShadow]

@@milesrost6674 "lmao he is getting ratioed". Thats you right now. Thats you. Omg. KZbinr gets ratioed because yall hate their opinion. I mean... Good job! You are giving them engagements. No matter what you write, they win. You... buffoon. You absolute donkey. You... gremlin. I hate... having pg13-ify. But there you. You stupid moron. Imagine thinking likes and dislikes or even negative comments mean anything on youtube. And further more finding it funny that someone who has a different opinion than yours gets bodied by many people. I am so glad I left this community of genuine cultist lunatics. I hated every moment I interacted with you cringelords for the last 10 years. Straight up redditor or twittertrash behavior.

[@AndreSilva-oi5ug]

How, he played 40 hours of it

[@BorsPepsi]

38 hours is a basic tutorial? yeah think i'll skip thanks.

[@FindingMyLight]

absolutely love this game,, there is so many different ways to play it,, mess around with settings and creating a random generated world.. just love this game.. have many, many, many hours into it. you have base building, horde base building, cooking, crafting jobs, towns to raid, mining, farming, everything and anything is destructible, different biomes with each one has their own difficulty,, not sure what you are missing but man this game is far far far from being the worst

[@larrymantic2635]

I think Emprise might’ve been worse

[@ferluisch]

Have you tried "Night of the Dead"?

[@Y_R_U_running]

11:51 "thats the most disproportioned ratio in crafting i have ever seen" Ohh oooh..... he doesnt know whats waiting for him :D

[@juneorbrehm8162]

bro doesn't even know how to play the game 😭 it took me at least 60 hours to learn how to play correctly

[@benjaminklaassen4820]

My headcanon for the clunky zombie movement is Rigor Mortis. Imagine trynna move on stiff limbs like that.

[@dumbwaystokai]

That is a very valid headcanon and I can fully get on board with that.

[@NigelMcLaughlin]

3000 or so hours into this game. First few days of game-time are now quite brutal - and that makes it fun. Given the 1000's of mods available from tweaks to full overhauls you can make it as hard or difficult or "quality of life" as you like.

[@2stroke438]

There's a lot of people that come out of the wood work with thousands of hours to defend this dog shit game. You guys are like heroine addicts trying to defend your poor life choices, hilarious and pure fuckin cope.

[@thedarkuk248]

damn and I thought to myself 1000 hours were unhealthy, truly you will feel like a junky until you see the masters with 3000 hours 😂

[@lorenzobennati8957]

can u suggest me some mods?

[@mrwolf4972]

@@lorenzobennati8957i recommend darkness falls for a challenge and mod war3uk for fun my to favorite mods

[@mrwolf4972]

jo from which alpha did ya started playing if i may ask?

[@maticman_]

Alternate title: Noob shits on a game he knows nothing about.

[@tommysuter4053]

This is probably my favorite survival game and I love how it has changed so much throughout the years. I would love to see another video on it but idk if it will ever be released to be honest. The devs seem to have an issue with feature creep.

[@tuccelli]

Isn't it crazy how detailed the POIs are, comparing now to A17? Back then, rooms were mostly empty.

[@Numenorean921]

I bought this game like 8 years ago and I pulled up some videos to see if I should give it another chance and it looks almost the same tbh

[@tommysuter4053]

@@Numenorean921 graphic wise not a ton different but building has improved a ton, more weapons and the skills are completely different than even a few alphas ago so it may be worth a shot but to each their own.

[@MrYoda-xb6mp]

@@Numenorean921me and my cousin just bought this game, and he’s a picky fucker but likes this game so that’s gotta say something 🤣

[@thehauntedkobra8261]

So, your comments from this video, tell me you don't pay attention. Did you not notice that flashing pen every time you went into your inventory? This is the "journal," which gives you the extra info you need for each aspect and mechanic. Do you need your hand held all the way through a survival game in the form of a "mini tutorial" every time a new mechanic comes into play? Also, you do get notifications when you level up and recieve skill points, it's just not a great big thing across your screen.

[@juneorbrehm8162]

the intended way to play the game is on nomad difficulty , on adventurer you do 150% damage and take 75% damage, on nomad both values are 100.

[@mr.satoru8736]

Summary of the video: "Im bad at the game and i will hadicap myself so the game gets even more boring." but nah seriously this guy is literally a lost brother of underthemayo

[@RockClimberAlex]

7:44 you weren't paying attention. Large white text in the middle of the screen tells you that you leveled and how many points to spend you have, but if it happens during combat you tend to miss it.

[@mathewweathers2788]

I enjoy this game so much. Sometimes I just hop in and build something, other times I work on my base, sometimes missions. Been happy with it for years which is a serious accomplishment. I do like the changes they have made.

[@TheLordNugget]

You have to search specific items to find certain things. Liquids have become a nuisance but manageable one. You used to collect jars that could be filled up and then the water boiled. Now, all you can do is collect whatever you can from toilets, cabinets, and water stations. You can build a dew collector that will produce 3 jars of water a day each. You do have to buy a water filter from the trader though. I've just mod'ed the jars back in. Yes, I am one of "those guys". lol

[@Hushey]

Yeah gotta disagree. Youre allowed to have your own taste in games tho.

[@Rivercide99]

Just going to address some of the points throughout the video that kinda bothered me. I don't believe a character editor is as useful since the only time you see them is when you need to fix the armor/look at what is affecting you so I don't see the point in rambling about how "annoying" it is if it doesn't affect gameplay. I would understand if it was as soon as you started it for the first time but for a survival sandbox game just looks kind of silly. I have never seen anyone complain about the minecraft character creation since it doesn't matter so why should it matter here? The condescending comment about the birds ain't a good look lmao "you can have that one on me" just shows how pretentious some of the comments throughout the video really are, i.e. the acorn bit. About the skill points, it genuinely feels like at no point you actually wanted to play the game, at the bottom it will intermittently flash a text that tells you when you have earned a point or have one saved up. While I agree that the *beginning* of a build may look off, incompetent building from YOUR experience shouldn't determine how good or bad a building system is since every other building is made by the same blocks you use. From my experience, the lack of provision adds to the game because once you get to the endgame part and notice how far you've made it, it feels much more rewarding (I agree that it is a struggle in the beginning, I'm just stating that, to me, it feels better after everything is well established). Also, the journal explains a lot of things. Not every game needs a story for it to be good, besides there *is* environmental storytelling in the game. Person build torch, torch fire, fire burn, why surprise? Complaining about how finding food and water is hard but then complain about how the FIRST blood moon was too easy seems hypocritical, sometimes you want a challenge, sometimes you don't. The first blood moon is supposed to get the player acclimated for what's to come in the next weeks. Just because you don't know how to play the game doesn't mean it's bad. Points I do Agree On: - Melee is very clunky - Nests on the floor is dumb. - Repetitive quests (although they do get better as tiers get higher) - The cooking system is absolutely atrocious. - Digging is goated especially with an auger. - The collision detection is very bad sometimes. - Don't understand why I have to break the painted lines on the road if I can paint my whole house and still place blocks besides it.

[@HoloKilo]

Apruebo este mensaje

[@tuccelli]

Loving this game for 4+ years.

[@loolgam1ng229]

Not played this game in a while. But it is prob one of the best survival games out there. in terms of content in my opinion and there is some great mods to. But can for sure become tedius to play on days where your patience is not at a peak.

[@dumbwaystokai]

I think this was definitely the issue, the first 10 hours were a real fun play but it really did start to drag. I can see this game being a fun one to come back to every so often

[@sauronikov9254]

then how about cranking up the settings before saying it sucks, noob.@@dumbwaystokai

[@Unknownhorrorofhoxxes]

It’s less of a drag when you play a custom game like making either the easiest or hardest map to survive on like nomad difficulty with zombies that are feral and always run

[@GikamesShadow]

@@Unknownhorrorofhoxxes That applies to literally any game in existance. Custom Game experiences are always more fun cause you tailor them to what you want out of it.

[@drakme1077]

Try mods, those can make the experience fun by letting you fix something you do not like, also yes, you cannot max everything within 5 seconds, like everyone`s attention span`s length. Personally the mod i think must have is it about setting xp reqiurement to a static but fair number, so leveling up is possible late game a bit faster, and more skills.

[@renstal7638]

While watching this I was starting another playthrough. Tagged a zombie at night with a bow and arrow on day 1. Ha, turns out it was a feral.

[@paperdaydreams3517]

I always crouch, shoot, then dance to the side while crouched because of this exact situation lol

[@moldplustesting1213]

I love this game and always find myself playing it again when other games go stale. Other survival games need to take notes. It is the u day concept that adds something. It gives you a true goal.

[@caseymauldin8396]

Definitely not the worst survival game ever but you’d really think after a decade that it’d be generally better than it is.

[@elmataclachado]

I have 500 hours in this game across the years, the problem with the early game is how easily things go to shit if you dont avoid bad status, this game is very fun to come back to every year or so for one playthrough, also bug included you did pretty well, I play perma death but I didnt make it past night 7 many times before I finally did it and your base looks way far ahead something I would have lol.

[@Zesmas]

Never let bro cook again.

[@callumlyons7905]

Worst survival game? Thats an interesting choice.

[@dumbwaystokai]

Its a series where I'm aiming to play every survival game in hopes of finding the worst one, the title is in no way a reflection on how I feel about the game in topic :)

[@FlashySenap]

Its fun to watch players who never played it, play the game. Being an old time player of this game, many questions seems to have obvious questions. Its easy to forget that ones experience makes you forget that newcomers usually don't have that knowledge to apply to the game. 7 days is soon about to be released. Development cycles are around 5 - 10 years, depending on scope, staff and talent. Most games release on early access closer to the end of its development, 7 Days to die released essentially at Alpha 1, the first development version. So basically everyone has been experiencing a game being developed from the ground up. I think thats pretty amazing ^^ It also explains why its been in EA for 10+ years XD

[@leandrogoethals6599]

1300hrs played since A12 and quit recently since the funpimps din't really upgrade the game aside from little changes. 1. horrible awefull sounds and animations 2. 13years of game developpement? yeah maybe the guy that's responseble for the world/voxel generation to u good job, but not for the rest 3. read books and books, even to wipe ya arse u need to read a book 4. unrealistic hunger/thirst 5. zombies don't spawn until u enter a room and then they pop and slide into place 6. zombies are all the same, weapons bare feel like they are hitting 7. gunplay is the ONLY way to play this game and they are also awefull 8. the world evolves just around u, cause ur special u know 9. when they said story is coming we got traders with repitive quest WOW 10. most of the mods that fix some of their faults break on every alpha 11. 7dtd 1.0.... look at the comments i leave it at that Why i play sometimes? 1. mod to TRY if it works out 2. digging 3. building in creative 4. mod with cars and driving Fun pimps if u see this take at least one thing from this away. FIX the animations u make minecraft look profesional, look at dead island 1 if u achieve that level of combat ur sales would be through the roof how haven't u guys figured it out yet.

[@patrickfay4685]

Lol, one of the first things you do in a new game is looking at all the menu options. There is an extensive journal section that explains everything. As you go through the game your journal updates. If you read it you figure a lot out

[@shadoggo2524]

As a long time fan of the game, it sadly does suffer from a lack of game mechanic explanation directly through tips or a tutorial, but most of these can be figured out through looking through the crafting menu. You can find that you can cook better food by leveling a skill or that water can be cleaned in the campfire but requires a cooking pot which is rather common in various POIs. You can find that you can make stone blocks to skip the upgrading process at the cost of not getting the xp from upgrading. Granted, the game doesn't tell you that the forge is basically essential to progressing to better gear, that a lot of crafting recipes are locked behind skills or that certain skills let you make higher level items, but I feel like this is easily discovered by just searching through the skill and crafting menus.

[@HK47_115]

That sometimes really doesn't work too well. After giving a game I try myself, personally I've noticed me going to reddit or KZbin more than actually figuring out how to craft via the game itself. In fact, wild Kratts in the same I found myself on my phone more than on the game itself. Bad as an understatement. It is horrible at explaining anything to new players. 90 to 95 percent of my knowledge and how I figured out how the game works and how to play it was from youtube. It's that bad. Like that it's just bad. When going into this game I primarily just have knowledge of it being very similar to minecraft. So because of this I actually was expecting the forge to be a vital tool. When I figured out how to craft it, it just felt like I got slapped in the face. Like the developers might as well would have slapped me in the face. It would have made me feel less bad than actually playing the game. In fact, I feel bad for all the other times I've ever criticized Minecraft for making a recipe so unnecessary complicated. The forge in 7 Days to die deserves a trophy for how unnecessarily complicated it is. As if trying to get resources isn't a pain in the ass enough in this game. Forgive me, I'm not trying to say nothing but negatives, but I can sit here all day and nitpick the insides and outs of this game from just a beginner alone. If in order to figure out how to play a game I have to primarily go to KZbin and Reddit instead of actually being on that game, that game is already showing me it's not worth my time. if I come to the game I'm coming to the game to play the game. I'm not coming to the game just to be sent back to my phone and back to Reddit in KZbin over and over and over and over again. No, having certain skills locked behind well, scope progression isn't a bad idea. But they really really really really really really need to do a better job at just explaining how the mechanics work. I don't want that to hold my hand. Just point me in the right direction. Which is the bare minimum of what video games should do when it comes to explaining their mechanics. It almost feels like they want me as a player to primarily learn through visual cues, but they don't do a good job at programming and said visual cues so I can pick it up. Which again, leads me back to youtube. And it's really disappointing because there are certain elements in this game that I like. I actually want to like this game. But it feels like every time I give it a try it has no respect for my time. As if the developers went in making this with no regards to the players time whatsoever or just how unnecessarily infuriating and tedious everything is. And I think that's the best way for me to summarize it. It's just so unnecessary in certain aspects of the game that it feels unnecessary to even play it in the first place. I play video games for escapism and to take a break from infuriating mundane reality. I don't need this in my video games. I don't mind a sense of reality, even if it does get a little bit tedious. But with this game, I would almost actually rather do chores like the dishes or sleep then sit there and do another titties task in this game ever again. At least I actually doing the dishes I feel some sort of sense of regression. A cleaner kitchen. Edit: sorry for the typos, for those of you that managed to read all the way to the end, well thank you and good on you. Seriously though, I am just so tired of autocorrect butchering my words.

[@mtdfs5147]

As a newish player to 7dtd I HATE the game. All of the early game feels like the worst game you ever have played. And late game still suffers from terrible hitreg and lack of viable playstyles. I found myself constantly either having to use shotguns smgs or rifles, because everything else just isnt worth it. Not worth buying.

[@CarlinHerbert]

Played the console version for a while. I feel like the newest version isnt great? When I pl;ayed it i couldn't find any jars to fill up water with, couldn't even loot the zombies, and i feel like so many things that didn't needed to be removed where just removed? The game now just seems like a bad zombie game made with unity or unreal engine. Is it just me? I'm thinking about buying the game again and giving it a second chance

[@donovan1345]

Yea, the game may not tell you that you need a forge to progress, but why should it? Every survival game has you build, at least, a workbench and a forge/smelter. At this point, its so redundant that it's like needing the game to tell us that we need to chop down trees for wood.

[@kalesrancor6265]

@@mtdfs5147 I'll agree with you on hit registration, the hit detection and environmental interference do make the combat feel rather clunky, the games combat mechanics, while not horrible, are definitely never where it's shined. But that's where my agreement ends, you can absolutely play with a variety of playstyles, as of the last PC patch, literally all of the weapons are viable for any difficulty. (That's not to say some aren't better than others, but you can absolutely be efficient with any of them.) Considering it's a game that's been developed for 10 years with NO extra monetization thus far, is going to be continued to be developed for at least a few more, frequently goes on sale for like 7.50$ And is "Very Positive" on steam I think it's utterly crazy to say it's not worth buying.

[@freddette8607]

if you do not like it then do not play it...keep your opinions to yourself and those of us that have great gaming experience with 7dtd can just forget you exist

[@sirstrobie2436]

My absolute favorite survival game

[@tnwhiskey68]

I agree with your name..

[@tonyortega4566]

Even in the console version,the game is still good and that’s a game that hasn’t been updated for years

[@ratleyink6509]

7 days to die is far from the worst in my opinion its a great game

[@sunlightswift]

Between this game, rimworld, geometry dash and Minecraft, you don't need other games. The divide between pc and console in all these games makes console absolute trash

[@streamdungeon5166]

Getting food and drink is trivial even in the latest version if you know what you are doing. If you don't you will learn.

[@Gunsmark]

Btw, 7dtd is not the worst survival game, I’m pretty sure u just didn’t get the full experience

[@The-Steve-The]

"I don't have any friends to compliment my skill tree so i'm just going to focus solely on on resource and health perks" could not be any more backwards logic

[@curtisbaugous856]

Ive been playing this since its early beta phases. Maybe Gaming or opinions are just not for you.

[@xenofes2]

Ah yes, building a maze leading into your base to slow down the enemies. Reminds me of Rimworld.

[@kalesrancor6265]

Not that the game is without problems, but there's a lot of misinformation here that comes from not investigating the game enough and making comments about it. I'd definitely say it's one of the most replayable survival games of all time. In terms of total enjoyment per dollar spent, it's easily my #1.

[@TuckerUp]

I started playing split screen on PS4 with my son. We love it. Seven using auger bores to build tunnels that connect neighborhoods. We just got our first mini bikes today. It’s actually pretty fun.

[@Irish1Eric]

7 Days is a great game. Granted, the console is way behind, but still a great time.

[@SparkleDerPolarfuchs]

true

[@thehauntedkobra8261]

That's due to be fixed this year. Alpha 22 is also going to be released on console in summer '24. It will be a whole new game though, due to the history of TFP and TellTale Games.

[@ELPez276]

@@thehauntedkobra8261 we are getting out of alpha baby let’s go but yet it’s going to take them 6 months to make a weather system

[@thehauntedkobra8261]

@@ELPez276 True. I made that comment before I knew we were getting out 😂

[@click8708]

Playing 7 Days to Die made me realise that a lot of the games I play aren't actually fun, its just the people I spend time with that makes bad games fun

[@paulmorris5166]

595 hours before I left the game. Great game, building your base (backup base). Escape tunnels and every 7 days it gets worse. Might go back one day.

[@chromiumnitrate1961]

Its a zombie game. The zombie genre even outside of video games is heavily based on looting and shooting, what were you expecting?

[@royalanansi]

not knowing how to play a game doesn’t make it bad

[@WhiteGandalfs]

Most things the author nags about are actually features, not bugs. 1. The game difficulty smoothly adapting to the (in)ability of the gamer is a feature. If you are unable to survive a single day, your difficulty drops remarkably. If you die multiple times after each other, your difficulty drops to near zero. Having only a few zombies in a horde night is a sure sign of you being unable to survive so far. So there is still a lot to learn for you. 2. Water gathering is at the moment, in alpha 21, at a particular test stage. With every alpha, the funpimps introduced certain new challenges to test the reaction of the gamers to those ideas. The water scarcity of alpha 21 was a feature that got a lot criticized, but it IS actually a feature - of that particular alpha version. 3. Survival is the primary aspect of the game, thus expect a survival challenge! If you don't like to strive for basic needs, take another game! THIS game IS explicitly for survival. And for base building and crafting, of course. And for 3d person shooting. But survival is always the primary concern. And all those different aspects - food, drink, warmth, health, armament, gear, mobility, bonker base and so on that are build in make that survival an actual challenge. 4. A lot of critics from the first minutes of this video are addressed by the first release of the game that is coming maybe this year. At least it is written on the wall, and release trailors are out where you can see all those critics addressed: Animations of enemies, animals and players, 3d art, 3d effects, good fps at high enemy counts. 5. Yes, the game has build in help and message system that alerts the player of achievements and of necessities. And that system still has development potential, admitted. If, as a new player, your attention is occupied by endless new things, those alerts are easily missed. They have development potential, for sure. 6. After all, the game is not the best choice for casual players, because it presents deeply structured challenges. Despite that, it comes with a broad bandwidth of difficulty settings, which, when used, grant even new and casual players a chance to survive. You must, of course, use those by choosing them. Enjoy the game! It is a gem among many alternatives.

[@medusagorgon3317]

There are journal entries that explain how to do everything in this game, which can be found at the top of your inventory screen.

[@donovan1345]

He's the typical average gamer, nowadays. He needs everything done for him and told to him or the game is trash. The dude struggled to get clean water. You know, one of the basic elements of a survival game.

[@GikamesShadow]

@@donovan1345 Ah yes sorry, I forgot we are forced to read journal entries over having a proper fluid tutorial tell us what we need to know. Last time I checked this is an arcady survival game and not Vintage Story where the mechanics are super indepth to the point where it needs a handbook in the game to explain it in great detail as to why you need a level 3 refractory block in order for your steel smelter to suck less. Cope and seethe cultboy.

[@YOUTUBE_CHRIS]

Graphics, Animations, UI, and crafting system are the primary reasons, in that order, that I hated this game.

[@elricrobo1002]

DayZ, Green Hell, Long Dark and Dont Starve are also great survival games.

[@trottahdrive]

This game is savage, I don't think they give a damn what a random channel clickbaiting people says.

[@BroadbandLink]

This game is the best crafting survival game I've ever played. And ive played a lot of them.

[@electricindigoball1244]

I have played this game a while ago exclusively on a private server with people I knew before playing the game and I can say that it can be really fun in that setting. I have zero experience playing the game solo or on public servers however so YMMV. The Twitch integration is really fun and as some of the people I played with have streamed the game I have experienced both sides of it (you can use the commands on other people on the server, not just the streamer). -In the video you make a big deal about how hard it was to find water. However that is not the case. As long as you have an empty glass jar you can go over to any bit of water and fill up the entire stack of them with murky water (the water block doesn't disappear either). You also don't have to buy anything from the trader to boil it. You just need a campfire (which IIRC the game teaches you how to make during the tutorial quest) with a cooking pot (these should be easy to find in tier 1 points of interest).- Upgrading blocks can be pretty tedious however later on you can upgrade to the Claw Hammer and eventually the Nail Gun, the latter of which can upgrade a block by an entire stage with one hit. It still takes a bit of time however it's a lot faster than using the Stone Axe. Upgrading blocks is also one of the fastest ways to level up. The biggest issue with this system that I see is that you have to be able to see the block in order to target it and that means that you might end up with not upgraded blocks in in the corners or below other blocks unless you remember to upgrade them first. The later hoard nights definitely get a lot more challenging with way more zombies and more advanced zombie types such as the Demolisher which are really dangerous. The game also has a lot of mods for it, some of which change the gameplay a lot. Overall the game does a pretty bad job of explaining its mechanics so anyone interested in playing 7DTD should look for articles/videos explaining them (make sure that the article/video is up to date as some of the mechanics have changed a lot) or play with people who already know the game and can show you the ropes. Edit: Marked out of date information based on the reply below.

[@nosuchnumber]

Just a slight correction here, one of the recent updates removed glass jars from the game, so you can't collect water from lakes and ponds any more. Apparently, when you drink from your jar, you eat the jar too? :P They did add water collectors though.

[@electricindigoball1244]

@@nosuchnumber Thanks for the correction. That is a perfect example why new 7DTD players need to make sure that their guides are up to date.

[@Daniel-Rain-YT]

It's actually the best one in literally every single aspect (on PC) objectively speaking, worst in your dreams lol

[@ZeroKami86]

idk if I can trust the opinion of a man that doesn't immediately turn off motion blur in every game that has motion blur.

[@ELPez276]

Can't trust a guy when he reviews the building system at 9:13 and saying that the building style of the game doesn't fit in when that's kinda the point of building a base. You can decorate a bunch of crap, to using the thousands of ingame blocks, and plus you can paint stuff as well.

[@Czarewich]

Honestly 7 Days to Die gets sooooooooo good when you get into it, especially online. The motivation to explore increases as later missions have story bits kind of built into the maps to discover. There are also other shop keeps, new technologies to unlock, and the blood moons get much harder when you unlock more technology. Plus there are enemies that summon small hordes on non-bloodmoon days.

[@GikamesShadow]

No it doesnt. I played the game for 1000 hours. No it fricking doesnt get better. Its always the same loop. Always the same quests. The only thing that changes are the enemies and the fact that they become bullet sponges. Ferals are easy to kite early and late game, the only problematic thing are wights and that only if you dont have a Tier 1 (meaning above scrap) pistol. Cause once you have that even at Level 1 (for the pistol I mean) you can just spam the bloody thing to death. Bloodmoon hordes are boring to fight. They dont require any skill. You can easily outsmat them with the stupidest builds and never need any kind of turret if you know how to build. Yea you can challenge yourself but that isnt intentional gameplay by the devs. The intention is to make players use the turrets. Well they shot themself in the foot there by... Actually Ima stop talking or the devs may end up reading this and take it as a hint as to what else to remove from the game. Oh right all the cool stuff they removed that made exploring actually worth a damn. Ima just stop here. I am not gonna write a book before I go to bed.

[@ALEXZANDER_YT]

@@GikamesShadow agree

[@KO-sx9uy]

You mean the best survival game ever

[@carlosroman2295]

I agree

[@Edy69420lol]

The biggest problem with the game is that for a game that looks like this, it's amazing that you can't play it with constant 60 fps, go ahead and try to fight 10 zombies at the same time, your fps will drop from 50 down to 30 for now reason.

[@Kyle-qm8rz]

Your playing on a potato buddy

[@josephm2218]

I only really play survival games and this is far from the worst

[@AuziGFX]

The game’s graphics improved and has A LOT of new features from the release I purchased years ago. I’m happy the game seems similar and isn’t completely overhauled because I enjoyed this game in the past n now I’m enjoying it later..

[@lerxtrm]

Not gonna subscribe or follow or watch any of your other videos, you must be an anti-talent in gaming and in reviewing games. This is one of the best survival games ever.

[@marcusjuhasz3501]

Im with you bud. Lets get the fuck outa here and never return

[@PeterPups0815]

The game is 10 years in alpha bc the devs have no clue where they are going. Every major update they change game mechanics, buff or nerf items, and they keep promising stuff they eventually don't release. TFP and their minions are condescending in their forum and ignore their fan/player community. The game has technical problems which are huge, bc it's badly coded. It uses far too much RAM and after all this time it still happens that single chunks break, you fall through the map and all that helps is a server WIPE! I have 1800+ hours in the game, we ran a dedicated server, so I know what I am talking about. We needed loads of mods, most of them performance and quality of life improvements. It's a desaster.

[@MythronVET63]

Basically the creators satin played a lot of Skyrim Fallout and Minecraft and said hey let's take the best ideas from all three of them and cram them into a game and kind of like Fallout did where you Fallout 4 you tear things apart and rebuild your base this game gets like really old really fast

[@jeffreymyers52]

This game is all about mods. Darkness falls is way more advanced than base game.

[@scubasteve2189]

No it’s not. 😂 It’s just more tedious.

[@iwaswithyourmum]

Darkness Falls is crap. Genuinely a waste of data.

[@Gornemant]

I've played this game on and off in the last couple of years, the exploring part became a lot better with better points of interest, but the start is still kind of annoying and or hard, some things don't make sense and when you've leveled up yourself and your gear enough to roam in a 4x4 guns blazing completely ditching stealth, the game becomes too easy and you don't have any more incentive to carry on exploring and looting. All in all, it's sort of a jank base Minecraft with better generated structures, guns and zombie hordes, in the end you kinda get bored of it.

[@steffithemad8327]

You are 100% correct about it becoming easy and boring by the time you get the 4×4. That's why I started playing the Darkness Falls mod and in alpha 21'22 there are pre-genarated maps with many more vehicles included and 100s of new poi's to explore, makes the game a lot more exciting.

[@thebootysnatcher9232]

Hey man, just wanted to say you really did point out a good fair bit of problems with 7 days to die, like the gamplay just being so repetitive, clunky and goofy combat, dumb collision boxes, and the developers/team clearly focusing on quantity over quality. Like if you asked me, as someone who hypothetically has never seen or heard of 7 days, "do you think this game has been in the making for over 10 years?" I'd for sure say hell no. Have they improved in places over the years? Yes. But it more or less seems that currently, they're focus isn't on the right area. The game is bug filled, un-optimized, and seriously lacking the polishing it needs. This is from someone who's been playing since 2014, not to mention i know plentyy of people who say the same as me. I want to love 7 days, but the team behind it hasn't made it easier for me, especially when they ignore the community trying to improve it, because they can't handle criticism. In short the weird glazers who say this game is absolutely perfect and doesn't need a MAJOR polishing, are just goblins who clearly need to open their eyeballs and get off the fun pimps meat.

[@Gerz970]

Probably one of my favorite survival games of all time. One thing worth noting is that this game has a slightly different progression structure from other games in that you really shouldn't try building a custom base right away or really for a long time. Embrace the apocalypse and board up an abandoned house. Early game tools are slow and tedious to gather resources with and wood walls are pretty useless. It is much easier to reinforce an existing concrete/brick structure at least until you have steel or electric tools that can make resource harvesting and block upgrading much faster. I can't even imagine how painful it was to grind up the resource for that base, props for following through though! One other note, the game can start to drag on if it is to easy. You can either turn up the difficulty or travel to other biomes. Travelling to some of the other biomes can turn up the difficulty quite fast but the game also rewards you with better loot for doing so. At the same day in the game the hoards in the pine forest could be a cake walk but a hoard in the snow biome would probably flatten you if you aren't experienced in the game.

[@jezero1090]

I appreciate that you tried the game out. For me its simply the best zombie survival game there is - infinite replayability in vanilla and there is also infinite modding. 7dtd might not be for you, because of their „lazy“ animations anf stuff but for me that is the charm of the game. Its unique.

[@lukeh7852]

Feel like you're just victim to the mechanics of a game that aren't spoon fed to you like a baby.

[@driedpoptart6419]

The title definitely has triggered a lot of viewers, as someone who loves 7 days to die, this is a good beginner review. Of course there are a lot of in game solutions to some issues you had but that requires more knowledge that comes with playing the game more. People may get mad at you, but this is a fair review and a realistic experience of starting the game fresh.

[@uncle2toofs866]

7 Days To Die has a steep learning curve & most of kai's complaints come from ignorance of the game. for example, upgrading building blocks. if you use a stone hammer it take 3 hits to upgrade a block. but you can find, craft or buy better tools. A claw hammer is 2 hits & a nail gun is 1. you can also skip the upgrading of blocks all together by crafting already upgraded blocks ie. wood blocks, cobble stone, cement & steel blocks. but you'll be forfeiting an exuberant amount of xp

[@CalamariPlaysStarfield]

I have a huge love/hate relationship with this game, it's fun, but so unoptimized it hurts and it doesn't matter what your rig is, it will struggle regardless and have constant stuttering issues and frame drops, ESPICALLY on horde nights or in towns

[@ToroMangito]

holy either this is the best rage bait ever seen in humanity or this man is just underqualified as a "simple youtuber"

[@katttmandoo]

If you use a hammer or nail gun upgrading each block it’s faster

[@blainebickle1178]

I'm very excited for the future of this game. Note that they make sure to make it very modder friendly, and it already has some amazong overhaul mods. Just imagine what great mods it will have when the game goes gold for a while.

[@JA_7DAYS]

I have dedicated my life to this game 😅

[@anonymouslybruh6550]

Dude you clearly put no effort into learning the game and went into this with the intention of shitting on it

[@cbizzle23]

This is the best game ever lol. Especially with the Darkness Falls mod

[@donovan1345]

So tired of hearing people talk about wanting a captivating storyline in a SANDBOX game. You want a story, go play a story driven. Quit trying to turn another genre into something you want it to be. There isn't supposed to be story in a sandbox game, only lore of the world, you play in. The point of a sandbox game is to make your own stories, your own adventures. You don't see people play a racing game and complain that there isn't enough fighting in it. lol

[@Daniel-Rain-YT]

Well said

[@lupusthefox2051]

I do really like 7 days to die but I think it's biggest flaw is you do have to know what you are doing to have a good time Edit: i am basiy saying what the comment below me is saying also after 40 hours every one i know figerd most of the stuff you strugeld with out so i think thats on you

[@katttmandoo]

It does have a purpose… it’s to survive….

[@thesquid8823]

Honestly this was pretty interesting, I would personally say if we are talking the base game i had the same feeling. I did not even make it 10 hours before uninstalling. HOWEVER with that being said my mate convinced me to re-download it and play a full conversion mod called darkness falls. It changed the experience and i loved it. I dunno what it was but i am over 400 hours in now and still loving it. I think overall i wished i could customize the loot from quests and so on to lower the rewards as you can kinda just ignore the world but for the most part you get to choose your direction to progress to survive the hoard nights. + it goes beyond just surviving zombies which was nice.

[@calemr]

Currently watching this over a meal deal. Chicken pasta salad, Pepperami, and a Lucozade.

[@dumbwaystokai]

Solid meal deal choice

[@GikamesShadow]

Hey Kai! Lovely news if you havent heard. 7Days is leaving Early Access! Into 1.0! From the Alpha State! No Beta. No playtesting, nothing! Nope its still not finished. Yes they raise the price by 20 bucks. Keep the game brother, make a video, this is about to be a goldmine. The standards change in June. Have at it.

[@ayemdismantld]

Once i learned the mechanics of the game, I was hooked. Every playthrough has been different which to me is a draw. On my top 5 survival games. I play a new game for a while then i am back to 7dtd

[@adventuresinfarterspace6730]

The game can be confusing or overwhelming to beginners but give the game another chance and try to learn more about it, it really is a good game if you understand how to play.

[@brianh9358]

It isn't the base game that makes this game sell. It is all of the mods that have been made for the game. If this game had not been easily modded, it would have disappeared into obscurity a long time ago. Think about it, why did people keep playing Skyrim so long? Because it was a game that could be always be made something new. Same thing with 7 days to die.

[@darthreven9061]

The main issue is that fun pimp did not explain anything at all and instead give a very bare bones starter quest that has you make some basics namely a camp fire bow cloth armor building blocks an axe ext and gives you some skill points for doing that. paired with fun pimps rushed alpha 21 updates dew collectors rework the system to an extent it makes the early game hell for new players and it ends with more people then ever who buy the game quitting because they don't know what the hell to do and ironically are faster to come face to face with a lot of the games core issues. The game is great and has a fun core but the balancing and progression seem more then ever targeted for long playing players vs new players because fun pimps hated the fact that players who have been playing for years kept progressing to fast.I don't blame you for disliking most of your experience because they actively have made the opening hours give a horrible impression of the game and the bugs and issues do not help either. I originally gave answers to ever complaint that shed some light as to how fun pimp expects us to solve those issues or just explain fun pimps mentality and design reason for it but youtube being youtube had an error so eh what can you do. as for the games story its to be added in a later update but if it ever becomes a thing eh who knows fun pimps biggest issue at the moment is constantly re-balancing the game and feature creep most long time players at this point would have said for several alphas this game is ready just iron out the bugs and optimize the game better and we are golden and they can just add more stuff via updates but sadly not we are now on alpha 21 and have had several features intended for alpha 18 then 19 and then 20 and 21 moved to 22 and onward namely reworked character models and armor new bandit enemies as well as the potential for npcs and story being pushed to god knows when. If we are lucky we will get the character model and new armor system added alpha 22 but more likely they will rework the progression system again and at most we will get the character model reworked with current clothing getting a face lift for the new model. id say check in on the game in a year or two or play the game with that friend you mentioned who loves the game and they can at lest help you have a smoother experience but yeah 100% do not blame you i love this game but im not blind to its problems and fun pimps abysmal handling of name a thing at this point. just be happy you did not play the console versions which do to some drama with telltale games and licensing issues its currently at like alpha 13 or 14 and runs like absolute dog shit sense they abandoned it even after getting the rights for the console versions of the game back and those versions show a much less polished game with even less reasons to do anything in a game that main plot is basically progression for progression sake. Likely fun pimps reply to 99% of your question is look it up or read the part of the journal in your inventory menu that gives general mechanic tips that they never tell you about or more likely this is there reply :D (shrugs) there is a good game in here but i dont fault anyone for not liking it because gawd damn do they make it hard to learn or even love this game.

[@MrYoda-xb6mp]

With the building blocks you can turn on admin blocks and that makes it where you can turn your blocky house into a poi looking base so it’s not so different looking from the other houses around you

[@TheYouGuy45]

it is, in fact, one of the best survival games out. Very few survival games have so many POIs that can peak your interest, and these points are progressively difficult and the Trader guides you to which ones you may be able to clear. I really do not get how this man does not understand anything at all. But frankly theres likely a good amount of players who fail to look any deeper than the surface and judge the game based on its early game. It is a survival game, 7 days is brutal if you play by the basic set rules they give you. It is a simple task to find the way you want to play the game, as a game that encourages such, to judge it based on you not playing it the way you want, is shameful. You do not get anywhere in this game without getting to atleast your first tier 5 poi. Is minecraft a bad game because you got to the nether and it was underwhealming? No clear sign of what to do? No because you make your story and figure it out. Minecraft does not tell you what to do at all, nor should 7 days, nor should any survival game because it is not the point. To post a video and not understand the genre at all is wrong and warrants better research and time put into it, this is on the level of IGNs review of 7 days to die, because they forgot to mention the game is not what they reviewed.