I’ve put over 1,100 hours into 7 Days to Die, and it’s honestly sad to see how far off-track this game has gone.

After more than a decade of development, “version 1.0” is still a clunky, unfinished product. The devs have completely lost sight of what made the game great. Instead of polishing and refining the survival sandbox experience, they keep overhauling core systems, introducing needless complexity, and forcing rigid progression paths that kill creativity and replayability.

Combat is still janky, zombie AI is dumb and easily exploitable, and performance is a mess — stutters, lag, and random crashes are common. The UI is dated and unintuitive. Visuals remain inconsistent and lack polish, even after all these years.

Every patch feels like two steps forward, five steps back. The game now feels less fun, less open, and less stable than it did years ago.

I stuck with this game for a long time, hoping it would finally reach its potential. But what we got with 1.0 is not a finished game — it’s a mishmash of bad decisions and wasted potential.

Not recommended.

I’ve put over 1,100 hours into 7 Days to Die, and it’s honestly sad to see how far off-track this game has gone. After more than a decade of development, “version 1.0” is still a clunky, unfinished product. The devs have completely lost sight of what made the game great. Instead of polishing and refining the survival sandbox experience, they keep overhauling core systems, introducing needless complexity, and forcing rigid progression paths that kill creativity and replayability. Combat is still janky, zombie AI is dumb and easily exploitable, and performance is a mess — stutters, lag, and random crashes are common. The UI is dated and unintuitive. Visuals remain inconsistent and lack polish, even after all these years. Every patch feels like two steps forward, five steps back. The game now feels less fun, less open, and less stable than it did years ago. I stuck with this game for a long time, hoping it would finally reach its potential. But what we got with 1.0 is not a finished game — it’s a mishmash of bad decisions and wasted potential. Not recommended.