Is 7 Days to Die worth it?

In my opinion, no. I got it because a friend wanted to play it with me but it gets boring and tedious reeeeeally fast. I just found myself wandering around trying to find something to do.

No. No game is worth pre-ordering.

Definitely worth it if you have people to play with. If not then it will still be fun but probably not nearly as much. (350 hours logged in)

In my opinion no. I liked games like The Long Dark, and Rust, but 7 Days to Die feels very empty and simple to me, and didn't hold my attention.

I didn't log that many hours on it, or play multi player though, so your experience may vary.

A friend gifted it to me a week or so ago, against my wishes. This was after a couple months of me telling him I wasn't interested. That bastard.

I'm not huge on survival or crafting, and I hate inventory management. But, then again, I have someone to play with. That makes ALL the difference. He's been helping me learn the game, and guiding me a bit here and there. Working as a team has been a blast. I have 21 hours in it already, and that's a TON for any game for me.

So is it worth it? As a blanket statement, I can't recommend it. It's alpha. It has its issues. But if you have someone to play it with and you don't mind the grind that comes with games like this (I've spent a LONG time mining and digging and chopping wood, but I play a tv show in a separate window or listen to music or BS with my friend), then I would recommend it at this price. Just know what to expect, though.

If you like crafting/survival games, I'd say yeah it's one of the better ones. It's not perfectly polished, and there isn't much endgame, but I've had a lot of fun with it and it is being actively developed and updated.

reminds me a lot of minecraft

I have 213 hours played in that game. It's worth it, especially if you have friends to play with, but you gotta realize that it's not really a pvp game as most of the other zombie survival games out there are. 7dtd is all about building your base, gathering resources and surviving the zombie apocalypse. So if you're looking to shoot some kids, you're gonna be disappointed. However, as far as the building and surviving part goes, the game is really fun and if you're at least somewhat creative, you can build yourself an awesome base, gathering the best materials to build a large base and finding the best guns can take dozens of hours (depending on what difficulty you choose), so there's definitely a lot to do. That being said, the game is not for everyone, you'll either love or hate it.

Depends on what you like... I've sunk a few hundred hours into it, but I really enjoy building and scavenging for supplies. Zombies are more annoying than threatening, though, and get old really fast. I really hate how easily they destroy everything you build. I mean zombies punching concrete walls... I expect the wall would get destroyed in a couple hundred years, not minutes...

Around 30 hours, no. The screenshots look nice but ingame quality is way worse + boring gameplay.

I love creation / survival games, and this was no exception. After you have a bunch of places you can hole up to avoid zombie/mutant detection during the night, and once you have a stable supply of food and water, the majority of the game is the slow creep up through ever higher degrees of weapon, armor and fortification.

Even playing solo, I enjoyed it for what it was, but my enjoyment is usually just making custom bases and scavenging. If that's your thing, I'd definitely consider it. However if you want more meat on the mechanical bones then a bigger budget game is probably what you're after.

My first attempts had me dying of thirst (spawned into a desert as my starting point!) but I quickly learned how things worked, and subsisted off squeezed yukka-plant juice, while scavenging for dried up chunks of wood in the sand. With these I slowly built up a shell of a room to hide in at night, and eventually had a stable one-room house. I expanded a little so that I had a moat full of wooden spikes, and a slim passage of sand and rock that led to the front door (lined with barbed wire), so that random wandering zombies wouldn't get bored and slam on the walls or anything. I had an underground basement (down through some sand, down into the stone, a safe-room I could hide at night as to totally avoid detection, as well as somewhere to store meat that is far less likely to be smelled by roaming zombies). Then one evening cooking meat in the basement, I heard a distant noise I recognised to be a zombie. I figured night must be close, so I extinguished the campfire down there, and put my meat supplies away in a little locker. Noises of a few stragglers getting caught up in the wooden spikes and dying? Meh, not too unusual. My character got hungry and so I took a piece of meat out of the container and ate it. There was a shriek of anger. Turns out my closing the lid of the container in the basement had been heard by a specific zombie, and it was pissed off. Over the next hours, more and more zombies gathered on the surface level piling on top of the wooden spikes until they broke, and while most zombies were simply too dumb/unlucky to get up the thin walkway to my front door, the others just started bashing up against the mounds of sand... and then the rock. That's right, a gathering hoard of zombies were digging through the very earth to get to me, while a few set about trashing my house. I was stuck in the basement and utterly fucked. I took a peek, thinking I could silently pick off those in my house with my crossbow, grab what gear I had made, and relocate. Bad idea. It was a huge mess of (mostly passive) zombies waiting out in daylight. I only had enough time to grab a handful of basic provisions and barely manage to sprint out of there alive.

Second location was a matter of luck, I found a bombed-out building with a nest of mutant wasps in the attic. I crept upstairs and raided the hive for the awesome honeystuff, but for some reason the giant wasps weren't interested in attacking me, even when I bumped into them. So I decided to repair a bunch of the structural damage on the lower floors and repurpose the layout a little so that the nightly migration of zombies could pass through the ground floor (at least, without feeling the urge to destroy half the walls in their stupidity), and instead lived up in the ceiling until the wasps finally turned on me a good 2-3 months of in-game time later.

TL;DR :
The game lacks fine depth or endgame goals, but is a typical survival / harvesting / base-building game.
Never tried it with other players, but I know that some online servers bug out and can mess up smelting / cooking timers on certain workshops, at least when there are lots of player-made things hanging around.

I'm loving it :D I have 100 hrs in it currently. I play it primarily with my husband and occasionally another friend or two pop in. Neither of us are big on pvp in games like this so we just play pve but we have a good time building up our base. Not sure what it is about this game that really appeals to me more than other games of this type but I'm rather addicted.

One of my most played games. Yes it is worth it.. one of the best early access titles in the genre IMO.

Conclusion: Not buying the game, giving something away instead.
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Thanks to everyone for the awesome feedback! :D

No, it's incredibly empty for solo and full of hackers for multiplayer. One of a few games I've refunded.