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[hemmingjay]

http://7daystodie.com/
New game, fresh off of a successful Kickstart. It's in Alpha right now, but has a playable client already for purchasers and backers that shows off some pretty great promise. World generation isn't in yet, so you can only use the premade.
Story & Premise

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7 Days to Die is an open world, voxel-based, sandbox game that is a unique mash up of First Person Shooter, Survival Horror, Tower Defense and Role Playing Games combining combat, crafting, looting, mining, exploration, and character growth.

Core Features

   

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 The World - Explore a  beautiful, hand crafted, voxel world with a multitude of biomes including: wastelands, forests, snowy mountains, pine forests, plains, deserts, burn forests and radiation zones.
    Points of Interest - Discover hundreds of great Points of Interests ranging from caves, campsites to cities and skyscrapers. Each and every building can be explored inside and out.
    Dynamic Story Generation - The story unfolds through our “Dynamic Story Generation System” which guides the player to other survivors, better loot and undiscovered Points of Interests through story note quests.
    Basic Survival - Scavenge the world for food and water maintaining and boosting health, food, stamina and hydration levels. Grow and harvest a variety of crops and hunt, track or domesticate a multitude of wildlife to live off the land.
    Day and Night Game Play - Spend the day looting, mining, crafting and building up your forts defenses as light slows down and weakens the zombies. Hold up somewhere safe at night as the lunar cycle speeds up and strengthens the zombies.
    Looting, Mining and Crafting - Loot and mine a multitude of items and ingredients to create hundreds of items including melee weapons, guns, traps, generators, motorized tools, motion detectors, landmines, auto-turrets, salves, potions  and more using our 5×5 grid Crafting System.
    Relentless and Special Enemies - Enemies will claw, jump, climb and break their way through the world in order to get to you. They can see, smell and hear the player and can work in a group. And watch out for the unique special infected enemies like the Acid Puking Hulk whose acidic vomit can melt blocks.
    Block Physics and Stability - Our Physics System simulates real-time structural integrity, durability and mass. Blocks don’t float in the air nor can you build an unsound unsupported structure. Build it right or watch it come crumbling down. Weak blocks can even fall from the weight of the player or zombies.
    Item Quality and Food & Water Purity - Every item in the game has a quality level and degrades with use and combine items to create better items. All Food and water items have a purity level the higher the purity level. The higher the health and stamina benefits. Improve crafting to make better items. Improve cooking to make purer food and water.
    Stealth and Distraction System - Crouch and sneak your way past enemies or throw objects to distract them. Find or craft sight, sound or smell deterrents and attractor recipes and items to exploit the sight, hearing or smell of the zombies to throw them off track.
    XP and Skill Trees - Earn XP and upgrade your skills to become the ultimate Bruiser, Gun Nut, Gadget Man, Chemist or Stealth Agent. Upgrade your melee skill learning to craft better melee weapons and swing them harder & faster and even learn special finishing moves.
    Solo, Cooperative and Multiplayer - Play solo, coop or multiplayer in our unique Zombie Nomad Mode be a human, a bandit or a zombie for a no rules experience. Watch the leader boards and fight to be the Big Clan of the Wasteland or the Duke of Navezgane.
    Creative User Tools - Build your own worlds and play them with friends using the Creative Mode Tools featuring hundreds of block shapes, prefabs and random generation tools. Create dedicated servers with your own unique game rules and settings.

It's not very pretty but it's already a lot of fun. The Alpha is expensive at $35 so some of you will want to wait. However, the team has a lot of talent and experience working on major games. I have no doubt that this game will have a rapid development and be even more fun soon.

[Poltifar]

Looks very interesting, but 35$ for an alpha? Pfft.

[Astral]

If it can deliver, the combination of Minecraft, DayZ and Fallout could be the kinda game I'm looking for.

More building, and actually based in an engine that can support it, than DayZ, mining and crafting a la Minecraft, and the rusty, gritty RPG feel of Fallout... I'm surprised nobody's attempted this before, at least on this scope.

[Darkmere]

35$ for an alpha

Yeah... sounds good but... that's way out there.

[rabidgam3r]

Play solo, coop or multiplayer in our unique Zombie Nomad Mode be a human, a bandit or a zombie for a no rules experience.

Hohboy. Postapoc game, multiplayer, no rules? This sounds like a job for:

INTERNET DICKBAG!
Preying on the unwary and trustful, INTERNET DICKBAG is there to harass all who wish to have a nice time!

On a serious note, this seems like something to watch.

[Astral]

So far the game is a lot of fun... I spent the first few nights hanging out on top of a smokestack courtesy of a nearby industrial complex. The alpha currently has nighttime be the tower defense testing portion, meaning infinite numbers of zombies until around 6:30 or 7:30 am. It's more a matter of cheesing the AI at this point than anything else.

Other than that,  it's very polished for an alpha; certainly more polished than many AAA releases. I've only seen a few minor glitches so far,  such as the occasional floating purse, and some issues with structures. The smokestack mentioned earlier was scrapped for salvage (and science! ) but after cutting all the way around only one section fell, while three remain floating with no support.  Also died a few times due to the correctly supported interior suddenly giving way for no apparent reason. 

Definitely worth keeping an eye on.  Next patch will add a mutant version of giant Japanese hornets and ranged acid puking zombies that are said to be rare. Can't wait!

[LoSboccacc]

any updates on this? I have read mixed review on the latest beta, but I find the concept compelling.

[Ivan Issaccs]

Personal reveiw, I found it boring after a couple of hours.
Build base. Watch Zombies head-butt base made of steel reinforced and sided concrete into dust until morning. Repeat.

[Tnx]

There's a game breaking bug that I don't think has been fixed for several versions now.  When too many items are spawned in the world, the zombies become invincible.  The only "fix" is to roll back save games in single player.  In multiplayer worlds, it is unfixable if it happens to your save.

[LoSboccacc]

thanks guys

[Sirian]

I've been playing this for several days now, it's still alpha but quite playable. It has a slight "Cataclysm : dark days ahead"  feel to it. Makes me wonder how good the game would be if you threw in all the Cataclysm stuff. There definitely is a learning curve, but once you understand the mechanics you'll be safe 99% of the time.

Right now, my new game routine is :
Collect stones, sticks, some grass, make a stone axe, get some wood (if near a forest), scavenge some iron and a pipe, find a quiet hill in the desert, make a forge and a chest, lay low during the night while crafting, turn scavenged iron into ingots (need to get clay first but you can dig with the stone axe).

Then make a pickaxe, go to the wasteland, mine the iron laying around, go back to base, make ton of ingots, make all the tools and a sledgehammer to fight with.

Then explore places to get guns/food/loot, kills zombies for their loot, get a water source with a bucket, make jars with desert sand, get wood for fuel. At this point you probably have a pistol, use it to hunt rabbits, make leather from the hides, make iron armor... It's pretty easy.

Once you have gathered enough guns you make molds of the parts and now you can make new ones as long as you have iron. Iron itself is pretty abundant once you find a vein, if you don't you can always melt the random crap you find and/or get some in the wasteland. Finding an iron vein will also randomly provide materials for gunpowder. With a shotgun, hunting stags is easy, and until then you can always get some food from zombie drops and exploring houses.

For now the endgame seems to revolve around getting all the gun parts, since you only get 1 part per gun, and exploring the whole map (which goes hand in hand). After that it's just building and defending your base.

In solo play I have often encountered hordes but not yet in multiplayer - maybe because of server settings. I'm having fun for now, but I can imagine it getting dull quickly once I have accomplished all my goals. Well they seem to release updates once a week so at least things are moving forward. And honestly ? If there ever is a mod with C:DDA content it will be the best thing ever.

[LoSboccacc]

alpha 9 is out with random terrain now, and I am having lot of fun

I spawned in a city and I am now both very rich and very dead. damn hornet wasps!

[Tobel]

Have been playing with my crafting friend for a few days. We're on day 11 now and have a little wooden long house with a pit. Nothing super fancy. We also got off to a slow start so we had to fend off a few massive hordes recently and almost lost the house completely.

For an early alpha, there is a lot of content and challenge. Lots of craftable items. As of the last patch, good tool finds in vehicles are more common, so that makes things a bit easier. 

[Lucidvizion]

The randomly generated worlds really change the whole dynamic of the game.  It seemed like most times I started a new game I'd run to my favorite spot on the map and set up shop.  Definitely can't do that anymore... you might not even find a suitable spot to make a home base for a few days.

At this point it already feels like a complete game.  I think I played 20 hours this weekend, or pretty damn close.  The part that's crazy is they've got a ton of features they still want to add.  Human NPC's, vehicles, etc.

[jocan2003]

The randomly generated worlds really change the whole dynamic of the game.  It seemed like most times I started a new game I'd run to my favorite spot on the map and set up shop.  Definitely can't do that anymore... you might not even find a suitable spot to make a home base for a few days.

At this point it already feels like a complete game.  I think I played 20 hours this weekend, or pretty damn close.  The part that's crazy is they've got a ton of features they still want to add.  Human NPC's, vehicles, etc.
[/quoteWell thats basicly what i was thinking. I know 35$ seem quite a step, but to support the devlopers and their idea? go for it, it is worth your time. Even i when my friend introduced me to the game ( god damn pirate eh? ), i wasnt sure if i were to buy it untill i played... sank a few hour in and i had to buy it. Lots of interesting takes on a few tropes and game mecanics. Slow zombie the days and crazy zombie the night? Love it. I am scared as shit each time sun goes down. Lots of parameter you can set to your likings, longer ays, more spawns, longuer night, hell even airdrop frequencies. Devlopment is active and well too!.