7 Days to Die
Intense overall intensityWhat's in it
First-person melee and gunfire against zombies and human bandits with heavy blood spray; combat is constant and bloody.
The player can brew and drink beer and moonshine and consume pills and stimulant items for stat buffs, matching Steam's drug-use label.
The setting is a post-nuclear, virus-ravaged wasteland of ruined towns and the corpses of a collapsed civilization.
Survival-horror atmosphere with relentless zombies, night-time feral hordes, and a recurring blood-moon siege event.
Zombie enemies can be dismembered in combat, with limbs and heads severed by gunfire and melee attacks.
Wildlife such as deer, boar, wolves, and bears can be hunted and killed for food and materials as an ordinary survival mechanic.
Mild profanity appears in trader dialogue and item flavor text.
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What it is
7 Days to Die is a first-person open-world survival game set in a post-apocalyptic America ravaged by nuclear war and a zombie-creating virus. Players scavenge, craft, build fortified bases, and manage hunger, thirst, and injury while fighting zombies that grow faster and more dangerous at night and swarm in massive hordes every seventh in-game day. Combat is bloody, with realistic gunfire, melee kills, and dismemberment of zombie enemies. The player can hunt wild animals for food and can brew, trade, and consume alcohol and drugs. It offers cooperative and player-versus-player multiplayer on player-hosted servers with voice and text chat.
How it's framed
The game frames its violence as survival against a relentless undead threat rather than as glorified aggression, and its bleak nuclear-fallout premise is presented as the backdrop for scavenging and base-building. Substances appear as practical survival tools with mechanical trade-offs rather than being celebrated, and there is no narrative endorsement attached to any of the content.
Details
- Developer
- The Fun Pimps
- Publisher
- The Fun Pimps Entertainment LLC
- Released
- Jul 25, 2024
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