7 Days To Die is a well-fleshed-out zombie survival game that has some excellent, fun gameplay features. It has a great tower defense mode, with the player needing to defend their base from hordes of zombies. It also has a great crafting system, a nicely balanced player progression, and some really fun co-op gameplay.
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Something new to the 1.0 release of 7 Days To Die is the challenges system. These are related series of bite-sized quests that teach the player different aspects of the game and reward a small amount of experience points. Some of these challenge scenarios are very easy to complete and should be done as soon as possible to reap the greatest benefits. Some, such as the tutorial challenges, are automatically triggered as part of the basic gameplay tutorial. Others will take longer to complete or teach the player about the open-world map.
6 Trader Challenges
Get Rich Slow
- Helps a player progress through biomes
- Grants access to higher-tier missions
The trader challenges are the hardest of the challenges on this list, but still pretty easy to complete. These challenges all revolve around finding the locations of the different traders, buying and selling items, and completing trader missions.
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If a 7 Days To Die player follows the challenges from left to right, they will be gradually guided through all of the different biomes. Be careful though, some biomes, such as the desert or snow biome are going to be too tough for new players with no gear and few levels.
5 Crafting Challenges
Making Gear And Tools
- Teaches crafting mechanics
- Guides the player towards useful crafting recipes
The crafting challenges in 7 Days To Die act like a tutorial to the advanced crafting mechanics. They also help to explain the new book-based method for unlocking crafting recipes. None of them are particularly hard to complete.
However, a new player might find that they don’t have easy or safe access to some of the raw materials and parts that this series of challenges calls for. This means that the player may need to wait until they are a little way into the game to complete them all.
4 Advanced Survival Challenges
Learn To Thrive And Survive
- Learn to cook food.
- Understand how to get pure water.
The advanced survival challenges introduce a player to various survival-related skills and game features in 7 Days To Die. For example, cooking food and purifying water. These are key game features that every player needs to understand.
In the mid to late-game stages, having plentiful access to advanced food and drink is a must. Many of the challenges in this series will equip the players with the skills and knowledge they need to make sure they have all of the consumable items they need later.
3 Harvesting Challenges
Gathering Raw Resources And Materials
- Teaches where to get specific resources
- Helps players build and initial stockpile
The harvesting challenges in 7 Days To Die, are one of the first series that a new player will want to complete. All of these challenges task the player with obtaining a certain resource or material and act as a basic tutorial for resource gathering.
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The great thing about completing this series of challenges early on is that the player will then have a small stockpile of resources they need to complete other challenges. This includes the advanced survival challenges and the crafting challenges. Don’t put these challenges off, they are well worth doing as soon as possible.
2 Homesteading Challenges
The Basics Of Base Building
- Introduction to base building
- Sets the scene for the first blood moon
The homesteading challenges in 7 Days To Die are both very easy to complete and worth doing as soon as possible. These are a series of related challenges that teach a player all about how to make building blocks, place them, and construct buildings and defenses.
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Every player needs a base in 7 Days To Die. A safe place to spend the night, store loot and materials, and do some crafting. A base is also required for blood moon night, and this is a base that will need to be designed with defensive ability in mind. Completing this series of challenges will teach the player everything they need to know about building such a base. However, it is down to the player to work out how to defend.
1 Tutorial Challenges
An Introduction To The Game
- Gives some direction in the first minutes of gameplay
- Guides the player to the first trader and local settlement
Loading into a fresh game as a new player in 7 Days To Die can be quite scary. Knowing that there must be zombies close, but with no idea how to do anything apart from moving around. Until the 1.0 release of 7 Days To Die, the in-game tutorial was less than stellar. It has now been improved and combined into a series of basic challenges.
The tutorial challenges teach the most basic skills that all 7 Days To Die players need to learn as soon as possible. This includes crafting and using basic weapons, setting up a camp, and equipping the player with some basic clothing and armor, among others. The last step in this series of challenges is to point the player towards the very first trader that they will deal with.
7 Days to Die
Survival
Horror
- Top Critic Rating:37/100 Critics Recommend:6%
- Platform(s)
- Linux , macOS , PC , PlayStation 4 , PlayStation 5 , Xbox One
- Released
- December 13, 2013
- Developer(s)
- The Fun Pimps
