Hey folks! Last month I returned to 7 Days To Die for the first real time since Alpha 19 (I think). I played all 7 days through to horde night and here's what I thought of it.
YouTube Playlist of 7 Days To Die
Overall, it was fine and I had fun playing and recording it. I had to relearn the skill tree on the fly and remember how everything worked but I used a custom sandbox mode to make things a bit easier on myself.
Quite a few things have changed since I last played! There are lots of new and updated points of interest scattered around the world but the core survival loop is still the best part of the game.
The graphics remain as uncanny as ever. The landscape looks like plastic and feels like clay. The fidelity of the textures and models is uncanny. Everything is detailed, but not necessarily in a way that makes the world feel more real. It has a strange almost-toy-like quality to it.
Building is still a blast though. The game loop makes it just like tower defense. Scavenging and zombie-killing is fun too but I'm pretty sure base building and defending is my favorite part.
My favorite episodes were 3 and 7. In episode 3 I went looking for a church I remembered from an older alpha and found a cave instead which almost killed me. And episode 7 was basically just shooting zombies as they failed to path up the bridge to my base.
Anyway, it was a nice return to 7 Days To Die. Maybe we'll do it again next year!