7 Days to Die
7 Days to Die has defined the survival genre, with unrivaled crafting and world-building content. Set in a brutally unforgiving post-apocalyptic world overrun by the undead, 7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. It presents combat, crafting, looting, mining, exploration, and character growth.
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Review by: Jason Schulte
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I have always been a sucker for survival games and building games. This one has both. Zombies have taken over the land, and you are the lone survivor unless you play multiplayer. Not only must you survive the zombies roaming the land, radiation zones, wild animals, hunger, and thirst, you must also every 7 days fight off a nighttime attack from a progressively harder hoard of zombies. The building aspect is fun, like most building games you must harvest the materials to get the resources needed to build what you want to build. You also have to craft items you need to survive. Then you can raid towns, scrap cars, and scour other abandoned homes to find the other things you need. Eventually you will have a working farm, a motorbike to ride around on, and an arsenal of weapons. The thing that makes this even better is you can play it multiplayer on one system. I enjoyed playing this with my son, even if he went through a lot of ammo and burned through a lot of resources I spent a lot of time collecting.
Overall just a really good game that I spent many an hour playing.