Mel and I holed up in a farmhouse and naively lit it with torches in our first play-through, and on day seven, the horde tore through that place like butter, collapsing our barn and ripping the house to pieces. A pack of twenty zombies sprinting toward your base in the darkness and clawing through the walls can destroy days of work, and the more noise you make fighting them, the more zombies will come your way. ItвЂ™s not quite like the raging horde in Left 4 Dead, but only because zombies are far more likely to kill you in 7 Days. The horde is the truly scary part of the came. Less realistic: the zoms that stroll along riverbeds. The more time you spend in an area and the more noises and scents you make, the more zombies will be attracted to it, and the more you risk calling down the horde. If you hunt a deer and collect its meat, the smell of the meat can lure in zombies for as long as you carry it. Neglecting your hunger and thirst levels reduces your overall wellness, giving you fewer hit points to work with. A broken limb needs to be splinted until it heals. Uncooked or spoiled food can give you temporary food poisoning, which will definitely slow you down. If you drink untreated water, you can get dysentery, which doesnвЂ™t go away until you take antibiotics, which are surprisingly hard to find. The things you build can only hold so much weight, and sometimes you might climb out onto a second floor balcony to escape a zombie and find the whole thing collapses under your combined weight. Where 7 Days excels is in going a step beyond typical survival horror games in its realism. You can also make guns or crossbows or land minds to assault other players on the same server. You can hunt animals or grow your own crops.

Your hunger and thirst levels are very important, and making sure you cook your food or boil lake water before drinking it can mean the difference between life and death. You can mine for iron, or you can melt down metal things you find in a forge. You collect resources like wood and stones and plant fibers, and can use them to craft tools or building blocks to build your base. In terms of user interface, itвЂ™s very similar to Minecraft. Spider zombies run like dogs at night which is kind of terrifying. At night, they sprint at twice your speed and will break through anything including solid stone if they know youвЂ™re on the other side. During the day, zombies roam around, stumbling at half your speed, hunting you if they sense you nearby. You have the choice between a pre-built world or a randomly generated one, both of which have a range of biomes from snowy woods to barren desert to fire-scorched wasteland. Come at me broД§ Days to Die is a sandbox survival horror zombie game set in a post-apocalyptic world. If they iron out the remaining bugs, it would be well worth the money. Right now itвЂ™s on alpha build 10.4 and is a thoroughly enjoyable game. IвЂ™d watched a LetвЂ™s Play of the game a while ago and it looked interesting but was still in early alpha, so I hadnвЂ™t checked it out.

My gaming buddy Mel bought me 7 Days to Die a few days ago to replace Minecraft, since she canвЂ™t join the server at the moment.

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