

With even modest supplies, the average zombie is too slow, stupid, or glitchy to put up a serious fight. If you’ve played any sandbox game in the past several years - particularly work-in-progress ones on PC - you know the basic gameplay loop.įor as much as 7 Days to Die is spoken about as a zombie game, the real killer, at least in my experience, is basic human survival. I rummaged through trash heaps for old-but-not-too-old sandwiches to ward off hunger, scoured the plains for precious bird nests to fashion arrows, and plucked yucca fruit to make juice to try and get my body temperature down from, uh, 130☏. I fashioned a crude axe to speed up the tree chopping and rock smashing, as you do. Publisher: Telltale Publishing (consoles), The Fun Pimps (PC)ĭumped into a laughably lo-fi Arizona desert and told to repeatedly punch branches and grass for crafting materials, with no real story to serve as a motivating force, I got to work. My first go at 7 Days to Die was, to put it politely, jarring.ħ Days to Die (PC, PS4, Xbox One ) Prior to news that Telltale would be publishing the title on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, I’m not sure I had ever seen footage, much less a proper screenshot. I had heard that name before, and I was aware that it was a popular sandbox zombie survival game on Steam Early Access, but that’s it. For better or worse, I didn’t know what I was getting into with 7 Days to Die.
