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[Top 15] Horror Games That Are Cross-Platform

Alina Lazarte — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 21:15:20 +0000

15. Dead by Daylight - 2016 (PC / PS4 / PS5 / XBOX / iOS / Android / Nintendo Switch)

Join this 4v1 horror game and become one of the 4 survivors or the killer and feast yourself with your friend’s blood. Survivors must escape the killing ground. At the same time, the killer is lurking around ready to gut whoever gets in his way.

Dead by Daylight is procedurally generated. Meaning each level will have new and unpredictable scenarios.

Choose this game if you like…

Thrillers. The game follows the narrative of the classic horror thriller movies.
Slashers; gore; paranormal situations. Playing as the killer is the most fun. Especially if you like slashers. Some of them are OP.
Ranked system. Looking for a competitive game? Welcome to Dead by Daylight.

This screenshot depicts Japanese folklore found inside the game. The mask in the middle represents The Oni.

14. No more room in hell 2 - (Coming Soon) (PC / MacOS / Linux)

The undead have taken the world. You and seven survivors will have to make it through a post-apocalyptic world filled with zombies. Discover different maps and locations. Face hordes of zombies. Find useful tools to help yourself and your team finish each stage.

Enjoy the random stuff placed at each location and have a unique experience in every match.

Choose this game if you like…

FPS with survival mechanics. You will have to find your resources to survive. Take care of the bullets!
Gore and extreme violence.
Living Dead by George Romero. This game takes deep inspiration from the movie.

The fact that this game includes kids as zombies is great. It isn’t a common thing among zombie games. It gives a better sense of what a real zombie apocalypse would look like.

13. Escape the Backrooms - 2022 (PC / MacOS / Android)

The ultimate horror experience. Explore the unique 15 levels and find your way out. This game features 10 entities who will hunt you down. Study their behavior to survive the encounters.

You can also enjoy the proximity chat. An excellent tool for feeling true desperation. Afraid to be left alone and get lost? This game is that nightmare brought to life. But that’s not it. The entities can also hear you. Better keep calm and run!

Choose this game if you like…

Immersive games. The atmosphere and graphics are excellent.
The Backrooms lore. Experience one of the best creepypastas created in recent times in a terrific representation.
Puzzles. Escape the Backrooms has great puzzles to be solved.

A red corridor that you’ll have to go through too. This is one of the many places with a threatening aura that you get to explore.

12. The Past Within - 2022 (PC / iOS / Android / Nintendo Switch)

This unique game brings a coop—point-and-click experience.

Two friends will join forces to uncover the mysteries hiding on this adventure. Work together to solve the puzzles from two different perspectives: past and future. Both players will experience the game separated in time. Discover this great story by playing both roles. Enjoy a full gratifying game with your loved one, friend, or family.

Choose this game if you like…

Replaying games. You can swap roles with your friend to experience both perspectives. The puzzles can be solved in different ways too.
Short games. The full experience lasts no more than 4 hours.
Innovative games. The Past Within is an original game that offers distinguished gameplay.

This room is quite important for the game story. The other player has a different perspective of the same room.

11. BrainBread 2 - 2016 (PC / Linux / MacOS)

Is there a more accurate name for a zombie FPS game? I don’t think so. Grab your weapon and get ready to blow some heads off in this free game.

BrainBread 2 mixes RPG and arcade elements which makes it quite entertaining and challenging to play. Try the 5 modes and have unlimited fun with your friends!

Choose this game if you like…

Fast-paced gameplay.
Modding. BB2 allows you to customize and create maps, sound settings, and others.
Gore. As usual, when it comes to killing zombies, there’s a lot of blood and limbs on your screen.

If you watch closely you can notice that this zombie was a girl wearing a bikini. You can imagine how she became infected. Now she lies into pieces, literally.

10. The Outlast Trials - 2023 (PC / macOS / Linux / Android)

Dive into the darkest side of humankind's past. You’re in the 50’s. The Cold War is big news. Rumor has it that mind control and other atrocious experiments are being done with humans. Luck was not on your side the day you woke up in the Murkoff Corporation’s facilities.

You’re now a prisoner who’s being forced to complete the therapy and MK challenges. Your only chance of survival is completing the trials and escaping. Preserve your sanity in this disturbing place.

Will you take a team strategy to help each other? Or will you go through the horror all alone?

Choose this game if you like…

Intense violence and gore. The Outlast Trials has the sickest scenarios as usual with any Outlast game.
Repetitive games. The gameplay doesn’t change. Each match will be the same.
Outlast game’s series. To be fair, this game is different from the first and second Outlast. But they kept the atmosphere and levels of tension.

A scenario that reflects part of the chaotic and terrible environment where you and your friends will be.

9. Phasmophobia - 2020 (PC / PS5 / XBOX)

Phasmophobia is a ghost-hunting game. Inspired by the Ghostbusters movie concept, this psychological horror experience will keep you entertained for a while.

Your goal is to investigate the different locations and search for paranormal activity. Each entity will require specific equipment to be found. You can even interact with the ghosts through an Ouija board and the Spirit Box. Something terrifying and unique.

Do you and your friends dare to complete the hunting?

Choose this game if you like…

Ghostbusters movies. The equipment and hunting methods are similar to those used in the movies.
Immersion. This game provides deep ambient sounds and realistic graphics.
Tension. While investigating there’s a high level of tension that will keep you tuned until the entities show up.

The green item in the middle is called “D.O.T.S Projector”. This item is used to detect the entities that walk through it.

8. Devour - 2021 (PC / macOS)

This game is one of the most entertaining survival horror experiences.

Discover the dark secrets of “The Watchers of Azazel” cult. Something terrible is happening. The cultists are possessed by an obscure force and they will try to stop you at any cost. You must stop this evil and set the cultists free. Face the demon Azazel at last and deliver them from evil.

Choose this game if you like…

Satanic-related themes. The game is inspired by rituals, demons, possessions, and other Satanist references.
Long games. One match might take you over an hour.
Challenging games. In Devour things get harder as you progress.

This place in the middle of the forest is perfect for a night with the devil. Exactly what the cultists use it for. Be careful, the energies of the rituals remain.

7. 7 Days to Die - 2013 (PC / PS4 / XBOX / macOS / Linux / Project xCloud)

If there is a unique undead-themed game that is 7 Days to Die. Set in a post-apocalyptic open world, this game is a brutal experience. Mixing genres like survival, FPS, tower defense, and RPG.

This title stands out from any other zombie game. Explore huge worlds. Build and craft anything you need to survive. Experience a game designed with realistic survival mechanics. You can even customize your character, cultivate, drive your vehicle, and hunt your food. 7 Days to Die is a one-of-a-kind experience.

Choose this game if you like…

Minecraft. This game has a lot of mechanics similar to Minecraft.
Slow games. 7 Days to Die was designed to provide a long and entertaining survival journey. There are many things you can do in the game that can last as long as you want.
Creating. In this game, you can create exceptional worlds. The crafting and building choices are infinite!

The coolest zombies are the ones found in this game. Each zombie has a unique design which gives a deep feeling of realism.

6. Back 4 Blood - 2021 (PC / PS4 / PS5 / XBOX)

A lethal parasite has infected humankind and few survived. This parasite turns them into savage creatures ready to devour anything that crosses their path. Defeat them in this exciting FPS. It’s up to you to save this world from its looming extinction.

Play a coop. campaign and enjoy.

Choose this game if you like…

Replaying games. Back 4 Blood features a card rogue-lite system that gives interesting twists to each match.
Left 4 Dead. This game was made by the developers of L4D. It has similar mechanics but it can be easily distinguished from L4D.
Playing the main campaign. To be honest, the best of the game is the main story. The player vs. player mode is fun but it can get quite repetitive.

This zombie is called Tallboy and it’s quite similar to the Charger from L4D. Is still a gnarly design and an excellent adversary.

5. Dolmen - 2022 (PC / PS4 / PS5 / XBOX)

Dolmen is an action RPG game that features sci-fi and cosmic horror.

Enter the futuristic world of Revion Prime. A hostile, alien place where you’ll have to find some powerful crystals called Dolmen. Face thousands of creatures that will do anything to destroy you and your timeline. Master the dynamic combat system and become the strongest of all.

Choose this game if you like…

Cosmic horror and futuristic environments. Dolmen has a fascinating design for every little thing inside Revion Prime.
Skill-based combat. As an RPG, in Dolmen you have to master your character skills and mechanics to win the battles.
Soulslike. This game has been called the “Dark Souls” alternative in outer space.

In Dolmen your character has different weapons and skills to use, this one is holding a shield and a sword. The futuristic design looks wonderful.

4. Aliens Fireteam Elite - 2021 (PC / PS4 / PS5 / XBOX / Nintendo Switch)

You and two marine companions are on a mission to discover a new planet: LV-895. A mysterious place that is hiding a terror like no other.

Join thousands of players in this magnificent third-person survival shooter. Create your gear to face the different aliens and dangers ahead. Face xenomorphs, jumpers, and spitters. Make great use of your character's class and unique abilities to defeat these deadly creatures. Aliens: Fireteam Elite brings an entertaining and addictive experience for you and your friends. This game is a gem.

Choose this game if you like…

The Alien Universe. This game is set in the Aliens movies universe. You’ll face the different aliens seen in the movies.
Frenzy games.
Repetitive gameplay. The multiplayer mode can get quite repetitive but it offers at least 50 hours of pure fun.

This cave looks like the perfect place to die in the hands of that huge xenomorph. The design of the aliens is just like the ones designed by H.R. Giger.

3. Pacify - 2019 (PC / Mac OS)

Pacify is a bizarre survival horror game. Experience a terrifying adventure alone or enjoy the multiplayer mode with friends.

You have joined the Paranormal Activity Helpers Inc. Your first job is to investigate an old haunted house. You’re sent to clean this place from the evil tormenting it. Use different strategies to complete your job. Pacify the different entities to move forward. And most importantly, remain calm. She can hear every step you take, she is watching you closely.

Choose this game if you like…

Feminine ghosts. The main spirit is a female kid similar to the Japanese specter concept.
Short intense gameplay. This game has short matches filled with tension.
Simple gameplay mechanics and great immersive atmospheres. The best part of Pacify is that it has a creepy atmosphere, excellent for headphones.

A friendly reminder of why you shouldn’t go to haunted places in the middle of the night unless you get paid for it.

2. Hellpoint - 2020 (PC / PS4 / PS5 / macOS / Linux / Xbox / Nintendo Switch)

Hellpoint is a dark RPG that mixes sci-fi and occultism. This game is an original proposal with the best of souls-like, sci-fi, and horror games.

You’re in a space station called Irid Novo. A place mired in ruins ruled by dark cosmic entities. This place once belonged to humankind but is now taken by evil. Your goal is to discover and defeat the powerful entities to return this place to what it used to be.

Choose this game if you like…

Cosmic horror and astronomy. The game is set in outer space and it follows cosmic rules that will blow your mind.
Exploring. Irid Nove is an immense place where you will spend some time exploring. It’s worth your time since the place is fascinating and filled with mysteries.
Challenging gameplay. It can be a nightmare or a piece of cake. You decide.

Imagine being chased by a horde of powerful creatures and your only weapon to defend yourself is an axe. And that’s why parkour is useful.

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7 Days To Die Best Perks Revealed (Ranked Weakest To Strongest)

rapidfirekitten — Sun, 14 May 2023 00:16:40 +0000

Some perks in 7 Days to Die are more useful than others. Today we're looking at the top 15 best perks, warts and all.

15. Advanced Engineering

Turrets don't need to be told what to do.

This perk seems like a requirement. Learning how to make all the things ever is part of the self-sufficiency fantasy of survival horror. You just don't have to play that way if you don't want to.

That's the beauty of this game: you're not pigeon-holed into playing a certain way. If you don't wanna craft, you don't have to.

Advanced Engineering is the perk that unlocks the recipes for the forge, workbench, and cement mixer. These items appear in trader inventories on a regular basis, so your mileage may vary on how useful you'll find this. It also unlocks recipes relating to electricity, traps, and turrets, while making a lot of items cheaper to craft.

If your playstyle leans on traps and turrets, you are going to want this perk. Or not. After all, you'll be able to find everything you could possibly need from your local traders.

Usefulness

Advanced Engineering Perk Review

A 20% increase to craft speed is okay, but it's not amazing.
Electrical trap kill XP boost is probably not going to make a big difference in your build unless that's the main way you kill things.
35% reduction in crafting cost of forged steel is not terrible, though not a good reason to take this perk.
Reduced cost of making electrical devices is kind of nice, but again, not a necessity.
Bottom line: take it if you are focused on crafting, don't take it if you aren't. You can get by without it and still do well.

Details

Engineer advanced items such as workbenches, electrical items and traps and craft 20% faster on workbenches.
Unlocks the recipe for the forge, workbench, cement mixer, electrical items, and traps
Forge crafting becomes 20% faster
Workbench and cement mixer crafting becomes 20% faster
Forge crafting becomes 20% cheaper
Forged Steel and electrical devices become 35% cheaper
Intellect perk with 5 skill levels

Usefulness: 40/100

14. From the Shadows

Blend in.

This perk is a necessary part of a stealth build, where it helps turn you into a deadly assassin who can creep past unwanted fights before the zombies even know you're around. 'From the Shadows' is great for a very specific sort of player. For the average survivor, it isn't worth the investment.

To make it most effective, pair with melee weapons, bows, and Hidden Strike. If you don't spend the majority of your time in sneak mode, don't bother with this perk.

Usefulness

From the Shadows Perk Review

Makes hiding 65% more effective at max level, which is a great way to avoid unwanted fights.
Sneak a lot faster, making exploration quick and painless.
Paired with Advanced Muffled Connector mods, it can get you close enough in heavy armor to one-shot a zombie with your crossbow.
Does not protect you from Blood Moon hordes. They will find you.
The backbone of a good stealth build. Why would you sneak around without it?

Details

Specialize in sneaking around in the dark and making less noise in general.
Get 65% better at hiding in the shadows.
Muffles your movements by an extra 50%.
Move 50% faster while sneaking.
Located under the Agility attribute.

Usefulness: 45/100

13. The Penetrator

Take out multiple zombies in one go.

A Perception skill, The Penetrator unlocks armor-piercing ammo and makes your weapons ignore a percentage of enemy armor. It also makes your shots with rifles go through extra targets. This is an excellent perk for folks that enjoy the sniper life. Being able to take out multiple targets at once from a distance, or pop open a POI without effort, is definitely a plus.

PVP players, take note.

It's not spectacular for other playstyles, though it does help other weapons hit a little harder.

Usefulness

The Penetrator Perk Review

Craft armor piercing rifle bullets and shoot through multiple targets, saving time AND ammo.
Shoot through blocks without getting close!
Melt through more zombies at once during a blood moon—if you can avoid getting swarmed.
Very specialized.

Details

You find weak spots in a target's armor and can use AP rifle bullets to shoot through multiple organic targets.
Ignore 35% of armor with firearms, archery, and spears at max level.
Penetrate 3 additional targets with armor-piercing rounds in hunting, marksman, or sniper rifles.
Armor-piercing rounds can also destroy up to 1000 HP of a block.

Usefulness: 50/100

12. Deep Cuts

Slice 'n dice.

Craft better knives, do more damage with them, and cause bleeding wounds. Power attacks make your enemies bleed, too, and enemies don't move as quickly when they're bleeding. Yes, you can bleed zombies to death. Don't ask how it makes sense.

This perk is weirdly effective at what it does, and it shines when paired with other agility perks. Take a couple jabs at a zombie, then retreat and let it die. Requires a lot more patience than shooting or blowing them up, but if you're a stealth player, you'll want to take this perk.

Usefulness

Deep Cuts Perk Review

Slow and damage over time debuffs make kiting zombies a little easier.
Bleeding wounds alone can kill most zombies, just jab and run.
A bit of a niche perk.
There are easier and faster ways to kill if you aren't going for a stealth build.

Details

Specialize in using bladed weapons like knives or machetes to bleed your foes dry.
Deal 50% more damage with bladed weapons.
Inflict up to 7 bleeding wounds debuffs on an enemy. Power attacks inflict 5.
Enemies run 20% slower while bleeding.
Attacks refresh the bleed.

Usefulness: 50/100

11. Archery

You can still one-shot zombies with a bow without this perk.

Bows are an effective weapon from the beginning. They're easy to make, and the ammo can be crafted in your bag. Archery unlocks better bows and the simply excellent Iron Crossbow, which is your first foray into crossbow use. I love crossbows. Being able to take out distant enemies without worrying about the noise from gunfire is a big plus, and it can save your life early on.

Feathers can sometimes be a problem, but you'll have an easier time getting those from nests than you will getting eggs.

I am a big fan of this perk with the caveat being that I'm also a big fan of silent headshots. If you don't like bows, don't use them, and don't ever plan to, then this perk just won't work out for you.

Usefulness

Archery Perk Review

Shoot harder. Shoot faster. We like that.
Make better quality bows.
And yet… still not completely necessary for being effective with bows.
Agility points plus a level 5-6 bow purchased from a trader, plus decent aim… congratulations, you're already an assassin without this perk.

Details

Master the use of bows and crossbows.
Deal 50% more damage with bows and crossbows.
Aim, draw, and reload 50% faster.
Craft wooden bows and iron crossbows.

Usefulness: 55/100

10. Demolitions Expert

BOOM.

An easy, almost-painless way to deal with zombie hordes is with explosives. Once you're able to make or buy a workbench, all you need is gun powder, plant fibers, and short iron pipes to craft pipe bombs: then it's time to unleash carnage.

Just one point into Demolition Expert unlocks the recipe.

Usefulness

Demolitions Expert Perk Review

50% chance to stun with explosives in first level
Pipe bombs are more efficient than any other weapon at eliminating groups of zombies…
… unless you don't have access to a workbench
It's easy to accidentally nuke yourself if you're brand-new to the game
Requires minimal investment in Perception

Details

Specialize in explosive weapons to stun, cripple and dismember your foes
Maxes out in 5 points
50% damage increase
35% faster explosive reload
50% faster aim
45% greater chance to blow zombies to bits
Stun, stun, stun

Usefulness Score: 60/100

9. Parkour

If this zombie knew Parkour, he wouldn't have had any problems with me.

Become Spider-man, sort of. Located in the Agility tab, Parkour makes jumping drain less stamina and prevents you from mangling yourself when you fall from great heights. It also lets you jump three blocks high, which is useful for getting out of hairy situations.

If you're anything like me and prone to flinging yourself off high places in video games, then Parkour is a must because it will save your life so many times. You'll be able to fall from ridiculous heights without shattering your limbs. That extra-high jump makes sneaky gameplay a breeze. Greet your friends by jumping around like a maniac without destroying your stamina.

Usefulness

Parkour Perk Review

No crafting unlocks
Prevents exploration-and-misadventure-related injuries
Increased jump distance can be helpful for making shelters accessible to you but not to zombies
Jump stamina drain is not a big deal compared to tool or weapon usage
Safe fall distance increase is very useful for escapes

Details

Reduce jumping stamina cost by 40%
Fall safely from a distance of up to 5 meters
Jump 2 meters high
Never sprain or break a leg when falling

Usefulness: 65/100

8. Pummel Pete

Bring it on.

Pummel Pete, located under the Strength attribute, is a perk that boosts the effectiveness of clubs and baseball bats. Get a damage boost, deal even more hurt to stunned baddies, and get a better chance to knock zombies on their asses with your power attacks.

Bats and clubs are great because they don't require ammo, they have a bunch of useful mods, and they aren't too hard on your stamina. Stamina is important in the apocalypse.

Usefulness

Pummel Pete Review

Turn stunned enemies into ground meat.
More knockdown chances = fewer zombie bites.
Craft better weapons with every level.
Massive improvements to a weapon class that is very cheap to make and upgrade.
Puts you into direct contact with zombies, opening you up to getting hit, which isn't great early on.
Obviously not worthwhile if you prefer attacking from range.

Details:

Specialize in knocking your foes senseless with clubs.
Unlocks baseball bat crafting.
50% more damage with clubs & bats.
200% more damage to stunned enemies.
100% chance for power attacks to knock down enemies.
3 successive hits in a short time causes the last blow to do 100% extra damage.

Usefulness Score: 70/100

7. Master Chef

Delicious snacks, coming soon.

Everyone has to eat, especially during the apocalypse, and crafted food is better for you than scavenged food. Each point invested in Master Chef unlocks more recipes, but in the early game, you can get away with just investing one point to unlock Bacon and Eggs and Boiled Meat.

Bacon and Eggs is the best early-game food for keeping yourself full, and will keep you happy and healthy while you navigate the end of the world. It's worth it to keep investing in this perk because of the buffs that cooked foods provide, such as better stamina regeneration and increased health.

Usefulness

Master Chef Perk Review

Unlocks recipes to turn you into the best chef the apocalypse has to offer.
Boost stats and recover from bad zombie times a lot faster than with Charred Meat.
Higher-end recipes require hoarding a lot of materials.
Makes canned foods more effective.

Details

Create more filling meals with advanced benefits and learn to cook faster.
Unlock the best, most efficient meals in the game.
Cook 50% faster.
Unlock Grandpa's Awesome Sauce, Grandpa's Learn'n Elixir, and Grandpa's Moonshine.

Usefulness: 75/100

6. Lucky Looter

Cha-ching.

With Lucky Looter, you spend less time looting and get better items for your trouble. It's especially helpful early on, and boosts the quality of stuff you find when in your initial 'running around screaming' phase.

As you find better gear, you live longer. As you live longer, your chances of finding better stuff increases, and on, and on.

Usefulness

Lucky Looter Perk Review

When maxed out it more than doubles how quickly you loot containers. Sometimes that's the difference between getting out alive and being a snack.
Does not impact the loot bonus of people you play with, just you and the containers you open.
Starts out weak, not really shining until maxed out.
Once maxed, it's common to get level 5 and 6 equipment, so well worth maxing early.

Details

Specialize in tracking down the motherlode and maybe getting a little extra for your trouble. You find better loot with every perk level.
Looting is 80% faster.
Adds 25% to loot bonus.

Usefulness: 80/100

5. Mother Lode

My poor, overflowing inventory.

One of the most important things early on in 7 Days to Die is establishing a shelter to prepare for the hordes of undead that want your tasty brains. Building takes a lot of materials, and the Mother Lode perk boosts what you get from ore, stone, terrain blocks, and trees.

You'll need all that stuff if you want to survive the apocalypse.

Usefulness

Mother Lode Perk Review

Each point lets you harvest 20% more stuff.
The more you build, the more stuff you need. Simple.
Just get this perk.

Details

Harvest more resources and bring home the mother lode.
Harvest 100% more from ore, stone, terrain blocks and trees.

Usefulness: 85/100

4. Miner 69'er

Mining is less of a chore with Miner 69'er.

Craft better tools and do more damage to blocks with them. This perk makes your life so much easier, since you'll have no problem bringing down trees or digging holes.

Oh, you'll also repair your buildings faster. Yay!

Usefulness

Miner 69'er Perk Review

Higher block damage = faster harvesting.
Spend less time digging, more time doing other stuff.
Out-repair the damage zombies do up to a certain point. Don't expect to out-repair a Blood Moon horde, though.

Details

Maximize your mining efforts by increasing tool damage to bring down rocks and trees faster.
Increase tool damage by 50%.
Increase block damage by 150%.
Make level 5 harvesting tools.

Usefulness: 85/100

3. Better Barter

Traders are our friends.

I love the trade system in 7 Days to Die, and Better Barter is a great perk for working with it. A 25% discount on purchases—and 25% more dukes when you sell—is huge, especially as you get into dealing with higher item tiers. This perk is a must to get the most out of traders' secret stashes, too.

Get this perk. Do it.

Usefulness

Better Barter Perk Review

Save tons of dukes. Knocking 20,000 dukes off the price of a gyrocopter is nothing to sneeze at.
Getting extra dukes for selling things is also a no-brainer.
An expanded secret stash gives you access to high-tier equipment much earlier in the game.
Combine with The Daring Adventurer for best results.

Details

Specialize in convincing area traders to give you a better deal and open up their secret stashes of the really good stuff.
Get the best loot out of the traders' secret stash.
25% more dukes when you sell to traders.
Pay 25% less when buying from traders.
Located under the Intellect attribute

Usefulness: 95/100

2. Sexual Tyrannosaurus

Ready to deliver headshots.

Sexual Tyrannosaurus is a must-have. Not only does it reduce the amount of stamina your melee weapons and tools use, it also grants you 30 stamina per killing blow.

Oh, and as if that wasn't enough, your power attacks use less stamina, too. It's the type of perk that's hard to turn down, whether you're a melee player or not.

Usefulness

Sexual Tyrannosaurus Perk Review

Use less stamina when fighting and harvesting. Efficiency is king when it comes to surviving the apocalypse
Power attacks use 50% less stamina, meaning you can hit harder for longer. Get out of rough situations, fast.
Getting stamina back with every killing blow keeps you fighting
This perk does not have any disadvantages.

Details

Specialize in unleashing a relentless assault of blows guaranteed to leave your prey slack-jawed at your unyielding stamina.
Reduce tool and melee weapon stamina use by 25%.
Reduce power attack stamina use by 50%.
Get 30 stamina per killing blow.

Usefulness: 100/100

1. The Daring Adventurer

Gimme quests.

Max out this perk with 8 points in Intellect and rake in the dukes and rewards from questing. Questing is the best way to gear up your character and get access to the best stuff earlier than you would by following the crafting path.

Higher questing tiers produce better rewards. Combined with this perk, you can rake in the loot and, by extension, the dukes. Win-win.

Combine this perk with Better Barter for the best results: rewards you don't want will sell for higher prices, and the things you want to buy will be cheaper.

Usefulness

The Daring Adventurer Perk Review

Each level in this perk offers more quest reward options, and more chances to get better stuff.
More dukes from quest rewards is beneficial for pretty obvious reasons if you're regularly buying upgrades from the trader.
Workbenches, forges, and chemistry stations have a good chance of appearing in your quest rewards—getting them early is a HUGE time-saver.

Details

Be a daring adventurer! Get better rewards for doing quests.
Choose two quest rewards instead of one.
Get 20% more dukes from quests.
Get three more quest reward choices.

Usefulness: 100/100

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[Top 10] 7 Days To Die Best Base Locations

rapidfirekitten — Sat, 13 May 2023 19:14:36 +0000

10. Bob's Boars/Carl's Corn Farm (Best for Food)

What horrors await you here? Ha ha ha that's a SURPRISE.

Set a stone's throw from Spillway Lake lies a massive farm that's the site of two large businesses: Bob's Boars and Carl's Corn. It's across the street from another corn farm, and also happens to be where the enterprising survivor can find Super Corn.

This POI is huge. It's also chock full of unhappy boars just ripe for the harvesting, and a big surprise in the depths of the property. There's a fence surrounding the grounds, tons of corn, and the opportunity for further building.

What Makes Bob's Boars Great?

Free food when you move in. All the boars and corn are a great way to get your food stores built up.
North of the Wasteland city, surrounded by big POIs, and close to traders. You're never too far from supplies.
Tons of room for expansion.

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9. Steel Water Tower (Best for Horde Nights)

That sudden stop at the bottom kinda hurts.

Located at 1092 E, 371 N, this convenient water tower is surrounded by a chain link fence and built from steel. It doesn't require much work to prepare it for early hordes: just need to break the ground beneath the ladder so zombies can't climb it.

This site is located just below Diersville. The main challenge with this location is getting the early steel to repair the tower—which won't matter much the first few horde nights, but will definitely become an issue eventually. Just raid Diersville's vending machines and street lights. Done.

For the record, I'm using this location as a base while running a knife build. I beefed up the fence with railings, I'm building a moat. It has been a fantastic location, and I don't have far to run to get to a trader. It's very cool, though very small compared to the bases I'm used to.

What Makes Steel Water Tower Great:

It's steel, which helps you survive horde nights long before you can make the stuff.
Diersville is right there, with a trader immediately west of your location (across the river). Earn a bike from early jobs and you're set for a while.Easily upgraded to meet your needs. Strengthen the fence, add some spikes, you'll be ready to survive the first handful of Hordes and then some.

How to get to the steel water tower and make the most of this amazing spot.

8. Islands in the… River (Best for Living Your Island Dreams)

There aren't many horror movies that take place on islands, right? … RIGHT?

Located at the northwest corner of the map (1472W 714N), this set of islands presents a great building opportunity without straying far from a trader. Both islands spawn zombies, but you may be able to avoid horde activity by swimming to the little boathouse south of the big isle. It's the only building that's in the water.

Aside from being close to a trader, this locale is also set near two caves and several useful POIs. A Savage Country store sits due north.

This is a really cool building location simply because it sits in the middle of a lake. Terraform the hell out of it, or don't, survivors can create something unique here. It's an excellent site for a team base because it's so big.

What Makes The Islands Great?

Close to a trader for quests and supplies.
Perishton is just up the road, and you're surrounded by decent-sized POIs for sweet loot..
Good building location with clear line of sight all around.

How to get to the Islands: see them at 7:44

7. City Fire Station 7 (Best for Desert Living)

#7 of one.

This POI is located in the desert biome of Navezgane, in the town of Departure. Find it at the northern edge. Fresh water is in the valley to the north, the river to the west, or the park at the center of the city. It's a solid build, a concrete two-level building that's easily upgraded as you level.

The fire station comes with two working vending machines, a flat roof for emergency getaways, and lots of loot in nearby buildings. It won't take much effort to turn this place into a proper compound with an outer wall.

I suggest knocking out the solid garage doors and installing a powered roll-up door or two. That's respectable garage space right there.

What Makes City Fire Station 7 Great?

Large, concrete build with plenty of room for everything a survivor needs.
Easy access to the (flat) roof for look-out purposes.
Since you're in town, you're right next to all sorts of stuff you can loot.

How to Get to City Fire Station 7, and see it in action.

6. Canyon Cliff Dwellings (Best for Those Wanting a Unique Base Design)

Zombies will fall off this place repeatedly and it will be funny every time.

This location is very, very cool. Find it in the canyon at 1444 S, 762 E, with a trader to the east by the river. There's a mine attached to these dwellings that can be used for further storage or as an escape route.

It's not the most exciting place for loot, and it's built from stone, so it will require some upgrading to make it into a strong fortress. On the plus side? There's plenty of material around to upgrade the entire thing to concrete and beyond.

The Canyon Cliff Dwellings POI is big enough to be a decent multiplayer base. Muck about with the convenient mine, create a secured escape exit, and enjoy having the most interesting place in Navezgane.

What Makes Canyon Cliff Dwellings Great?

Unusual location in the middle of a deep canyon, perfect for someone that just wants a cool base.
Not far from a trader, so you'll still be able to quest and shop.
Mines and caves nearby provide you with materials.
Site is big and can easily be adapted into a clan or guild base.

How to Get to Canyon Cliff Dwellings: start at 7:20.

5. Perishton Cemetery (Best for a Fortified Base)

With crypts for your goth friends.

The Perishton cemetery has a full outer wall around the yard, plus the church building itself. It's no big deal to dash in and out for scavenging runs, and the whole kit is easily upgraded into concrete. All it needs is some fortification.

There's enough room inside the church to turn it into a two-level base, if you want to, and space outside to grow crops or keep vehicles close. The part that sucks? The nearest trader is due south, on the eastern side of the biggest lake in Navezgane.

What Makes Perishton Cemetery Great?

Everything you need is already there. The building and wall require very little extra work.
Plenty of nearby POIs with excellent loot.
Hunting in the snow biome is easy. There are lots of animals around, so you won't starve.

How to Get to Perishton Cemetery: start at 21:05

4. Red Mesa (Best for Tech Loot and Fortification)

Restricted area? Not anymore!

Another location that's great for its fortification level is Red Mesa, a huge underground bunker with some serious surface defense. Concrete on top and all through the bowels of the beast, this place is hellish for explorers when attempting to clear it but it is so worth it.

There's a lot of tech to salvage here, lots of quality loot, and tons of space. If you get overwhelmed by the undead on the surface, you can easily retreat into the bunker and lick your wounds.

Find a trader to the northwest along the main highway, so you always have someplace to go for jobs and supplies.

What Makes Red Mesa Great?

This huge POI is heavily fortified right out the box. No need to upgrade blocks when you first move in.
Lots of high-end salvage makes adding electrical elements and robotics even easier.
The loot here is fantastic, even if clearing the place can be painful.

How to Get to Red Mesa: start at 0:26.

3. Coleman's Drive-In (Best for Builders)

Also a good place for Blood Moon shenanigans.

The drive-in is next to the island lake. You have access to nearby traders, lots of water, and large POIs for looting and scavenging. It has a nice wall around it and several small outbuildings that can be adapted to your purposes.

There's also plenty of room to build. Set up watchtowers, storage facilities, crops, crafting workshops, the possibilities are endless.

What Makes Coleman's Drive-In Great?

Enough room to build your own settlement, if that's your thing.
Has its own water source, saving you trips to the lake and other nonsense.
Existing walls and outbuildings provide early cover for defending yourself from the undead.

How to Get to Coleman's Drive-In: start at 29:41.

2. Navezgane High School (Best for Loot and Group Play)

High School Musical: APOCALYPSE

If you're playing with a bunch of friends and need enough room for everybody, then head to 359 W, 1672 N. The school building here is huge. There are multiple rooms that are full of loot and stuff to scavenge, and this POI is surrounded by even more loot pinatas.

A group can make quick work of the nasties inside and the process of converting this building into a fortress. See everything for miles around while patrolling that flat roof, and convert the parking lot (or the track out back) into a massive farm.

What Makes Navezgane High School Great?

Tons of loot. Get prepared for your move-in date while you clear the place of zombies.
Lots of room for expansion.
Central to several other large POIs. This area is pretty rich in resources.

How to Get to Navezgane High School: start at 1:45.

1. The Prison (Best for Wasteland Survival)

Not pictured: three zombie bears at various points off-camera.

Do you like fending off zombie bears while out on a supply run? Then you definitely need to try running a base in the wasteland. The old prison is a great place to do it: walls! Watchtowers! Not too far from town! The water is questionable, but at least it's there.

The wasteland is the most difficult biome to survive in and it gets worse as you level up (or crank up the difficulty level). If you're looking for a challenge but don't want to sacrifice everything, the prison will give you what you need. You'll still have a fighting chance without having to start completely from scratch.

What Makes The Prison Great?

Premade watchtowers make it easy to take out zombies from a distance and watch for incoming hordes.
Walled courtyard cuts down the work of defense preparation.
You still have access to fresh water from the river, and supplies from the new-to-Alpha-20 town to the west.

How to Get to The Prison. Watch out for zombie bears.

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25 Best 7 Days to Die Best Tips and Strategies Guide

rapidfirekitten — Sat, 13 May 2023 16:44:45 +0000

25. Goodbye, fog

I can see clearly now the fog has gone.

Not a fan of the constant or near-constant fog? Here's how you can get rid of it:

Hit F1 to bring up the console.
Type gfx pp enable and hit enter.
Congratulations! You're in the clear!

Unless you like the gloomy atmosphere and not being able to see past your nose.

24. Throw stones to distract zombies

The stealthiest of stealth plays.

Early on in your 7 Days to Die career, you're going to find it's better to just avoid combat instead of risking injury and disease. If a zombie hasn't noticed you yet, you can toss a stone near it and it will follow that noise.

Open your inventory with the 'Tab' key.
Drag your Small Stones to the hotbar.
When sneaking, equip the Small Stones (press their button on the hotbar).
Hold the left mouse button to charge your throw, then release to throw.

23. Quest rewards are your best source of gear early in the game

You kinda creep me out, Trader Bob.

As soon as you access your first trader, guess what? You've hit paydirt.

Every trader has a selection of 'jobs', or quests, that you can complete to earn XP, dukes, and items. The easiest quests to do are Fetch and Restore Power quests, which require grabbing an item from a location and pressing a button, respectively.

Complete your quest, run back to the trader, and turn it in for sweet stuff.

Complete a certain number of quests and you'll get the chance to claim a free bicycle.

Go to your trader.
Press 'E' to talk to them.
Click 'Do you have any jobs?'
Click the quest you want to take.

Easy!

22. Combine bartering and questing for faster progression

I heart Better Barter.

Even before you unlock Better Bartering and The Daring Adventurer, the items that traders carry tend toward being better than what you can craft and find—especially early on, and in higher difficulty levels.

Take Fetch quests at first, and take Clear quests only if you feel you can tackle the undead. Any quest rewards you don't want or need can be sold. As you earn dukes, they can be put toward better weapons and anything else you need.

Level up The Daring Adventurer first to unlock more, and better, quest rewards.

21. Clubs and bows are love

Buh-bye, dude.

Not only can clubs and bows be made with materials that are everywhere, they can be repaired without repair kits. Leveling your strength perk turns you into a one-person zombie-wrecking crew, and headshots with a club? Delicious.

Feathers for arrows are plentiful between bird nests littering the ground (most common in the forest and tundra biomes) and the undead vultures that want to snack on you.

20. Become a farmer for infinite food

Once you get those perk points in, it is easy to get a MASSIVE farm going.

Farming is planting seeds in farm plots and letting them grow, then harvesting the resulting plants.

Farm plots are crafted from rotting flesh, wood, clay soil, and nitrate. Rotting flesh comes from harvesting the corpses that you find scattered through the world. You also get rotting flesh when you harvest zombie animals and body bags.

Nitrate? You'll find it from mining. Look for white blocks of ore while out and about, or white dots on the map.

You'll want to take the Living off the Land perk under Fortitude to get more vegetables with every harvest.

The best part about farming is that, once you plant things, you don't have to babysit them. Keep going around doing what you normally do and after a few days you'll have fully-grown plants.

Here's how to plant seeds:

Put your farm plot and any seeds you want to plant on your action bar.
Place your farm plot by right-clicking with it in your hands.
Select your seeds and plant by right-clicking on the farm plot.
You're done! The plant is fully grown when it no longer says '(Growing)' next to its name.

19. Be careful where you put your farm

Physics in action.

One tip that I see way too often is the suggestion to build your farm on the roof of your shelter.

Don't do this.

People typically bring this up as a way to protect your crops from zombies, but in vanilla 7D2D, they ignore the crops unless you're dragging the fight to your farm plots. Don't do that. You will accidentally hit your plants.

Crops' weight changes as they grow. A fresh plot is lighter than a plot with a seedling, a plot with a seedling is lighter than a plot with a juvenile plant. As plants get bigger, they get heavier. A roof that isn't properly supported will collapse under the weight of a bunch of plots and fully-grown crops.

If you still want to do this, you'll need to make sure that you:

Upgrade your building's walls and roof by right-clicking on each block with your stone axe/hammer/nail gun.
Build pillars to hold up the roof every 3-5 tiles.

A reinforced building makes all the difference.

18. Get cooking

Just like grandma used to make.

It pays to take at least one point in Master Chef because home-cooked meals, much like in real life, are better for you than the things you find digging around abandoned buildings.

The best early-game food is bacon and eggs, which is unlocked with the above perk. If you're already looting every nest you run into in the wild, then you're likely to build up a steady supply of eggs (unless your RNG is really awful). Even the very basic grilled and boiled meats are better than what you can make without perks.

17. Turn bones into a knife

That bear will feed you for a month.

Knives are the most efficient way to harvest meat and materials from dead animals and random corpses because they're classed as a Butcher Tool. You can still get those materials without using a knife, you just don't get the full amount—and you miss out on bonus materials.

Craft a bone knife from 5 bones and you'll never have to worry about that again. You will likely be able to make one after you harvest your first animal or zombie animal.

They can be repaired with bones, too.

16. Use pocket mods, not inventory perks

Stop wasting points on pack mule. STOP IT.

Pack Mule is tempting at first glance. It opens up inventory space! It prevents encumbrance! Being encumbered is not a game-breaking thing and is mostly just an annoyance. Instead of wasting perk points on Pack Mule, make use of clothing and armor pocket mods. You won't run into them super-early in the game and that's fine!

Armor pocket mods come from schematics and the trader. The clothing double pocket mod is learned from Needle and Thread Vol 7.

15. Be mindful of the heatmap

Stepping out of the bunker after three hours of smelting.

Everything you do in-game generates 'heat'.

'Heat' is how the game decides how interesting zombies will find an area. The more you do somewhere, the more likely it is that something will come to investigate—like a screamer zombie. 'Heat' goes away if you move away from an area and just stop doing things there.

Leaving forges and campfires running generates heat, as does scavenging from something like a wrecked car. Crafting? Zombies love that.

So if you've been highly active somewhere and you're concerned about accidentally summoning a horde, stop what you're doing and go elsewhere.

14. Reinforce existing buildings for shelter

Wyzeguy Schittz.

7D2D has tons of different styles of building that can easily be turned into your base. Some points of interest, like the churches that are surrounded by walls, already come with important upgrades!

The benefit of reinforcing an existing building is that it saves time and materials. You have a shell, you can just strengthen it by upgrading the blocks (unless they're already up to cement, for example), putting up pillars if needed, and filling in gaps.

Don't forget to put down a Land Claim Block! They prevent zombies from spawning in a 41x41 region around wherever the block is placed. They also remove that building from a trader's list of quest locations, so it won't accidentally get reset and wipe out everything inside.

To make and use a Land Claim Block:

Have 5 Small Stones in your inventory.
Search 'land claim block' in the crafting window.
Craft the block.
Place the block in your toolbar.
With the block selected, right-click to place it.

13. Buy Bottles of Acid every time they appear on the trader

Wasteland gold.

Bottle of Acid is a crafting material that you can't make for yourself, and is difficult to find when looting. You'll sometimes see it in the trader's stock rotation, and if you do? Grab it.

It takes 5 bottles of acid to make a Chemistry Station, and it takes one per wheel if you have to make wheels for vehicles.

Why is the Chemistry Station important? It allows you to make gas cans, beer, first aid kits, and other items that make surviving the apocalypse much easier. It also makes antibiotics cheaper, and faster, to craft—even the herbal ones.

12. Set up more than one shelter

How extra do you want to be? Mods optional.

The Blood Moon event that happens every 7 days (unless you change the setting when you create a game) brings a boatload of zombies that can wipe out everything you own if you aren't prepared. Outside of the Blood Moon event, you can also find yourself swarmed by wandering hordes and unable to get back to your main base.

It is always worthwhile to set up satellite locations with some extra supplies so you aren't completely screwedwhen you get overwhelmed.

These extra bases can also act as storage depots when you've been looting away from home. Fill 'em up, clear 'em out later when you have a larger vehicle.

11. Let vultures come to you

This game is why I get uneasy when I see vultures circling in real life.

Vultures are a pain in the butt. They attack quickly, they make you sick, they can bleed you to death—many a newbie has died to these jerks.

Don't bother trying to shoot them out of the sky when you see them: you'll never hit them. Instead, wait until they come after you. They will eventually, and they only take a few hits with a club to drop. It's not that these guys are tough, it's that they're quick.

10. If you can't use it, repair & sell it

Cha-ching.

Tools, weapons, and armor are worth more dukes when they're in good condition. Instead of scrapping your old gear or that nice shotgun you found but can't use, repair it and sell it to the trader. You get a handsome amount of dukes (whether you have perks toward bartering or not, though you should) for your trouble.

Fully repairing an item can add hundreds of dukes to the value of that piece, more than what the repair kit would cost you to make.

Here's how to repair:

Open your inventory.
Click on the item you want to repair.
Click 'repair' in the item's menu, or hit the shortcut (default is 'A')
Wait.
The item will go into your crafting queue, and after a short time, pop back into your inventory at max durability.

9. Nearly everything you do earns XP

Ready to gain 10 levels in 3 minutes?

Almost every activity you do, from harvesting to killing zombies, generates experience for your character. As you gain experience, you level up. As you level up, you earn points to invest in your perks.

All of the following activities will help you level up:

Chopping down trees.
Harvesting & salvaging blocks.
Salvaging vehicles.
Upgrading and repairing blocks.
Killing zombies and animals.
Opening a new-to-you container in the world.
Selling items to traders.
Questing.
Mining/digging.

Going on an upgrade spree or doing a ton of mining does wonders for your experience bar.

8. You can gather Forged Steel before you can make it

Trader Rekt won't mind if you smash it, right?

Before you can make your own Forged Steel, you have to have a Crucible for your Forge. If you don't have that, there are multiple items that you can harvest for this block. Use a disassembly tool, like a wrench, to get your steel—if you don't, you'll just get scraps.

The following blocks can be harvested for Forged Steel:

Gas pump
Chandelier
Hardened Chest
Vending Machines
All safes
Street Lights
Army Munitions Box

Chests and containers must have been generated in the world in order to give up Forged Steel. I recommend targeting street lights, broken vending machines, and chandeliers—leave safes and other containers! Once emptied, they will eventually have loot in them again.

7. Paintings harbor treasure

Possible treasure or immense disappointment.

You know the portraits on the walls in several POIs?

Break 'em.

Sometimes there's loot hiding behind them. Sometimes a quest item is hiding back there when you're on one of those fetch quests, too, so it is never a bad idea to get into the habit of smashing 'em. You can just drop the glass that you get—there's no reason to keep it, and if you need to craft glass bottles, it's better to use sand.

6. Every vehicle has storage space

The motorcycle is the most badass vehicle in the game.

From the humble bicycle to the gyrocopter, every vehicle in vanilla 7 Days to Die can act as portable storage. The storage doesn't get really good until the 4x4 truck, and you can't return a vehicle to your inventory if it has things in storage.

To access vehicle inventory:

While looking at the vehicle in the world, hold E to call up the radial menu.
Look for the 'Access storage' option. It's usually a little bag icon.
Select it. Your vehicle inventory will open up and you can now use it.

5. Most buildings have a planned 'looting route'

You could smash the front door in, or you could go through this handy hole in the wall.

Have you ever been in a POI and noticed how flashlights and lanterns are sometimes set up as if pointing you in the right direction, or how debris is scattered as if to guide you to specific places?

It is.

Most buildings are set up with a "looting route" in mind. By following the route, you don't have to break any walls or other obstacles and can just clear the place out while cleaning house, if you know what I mean. These buildings tend to 'end' with a final loot room, with multiple boxes and crates or something that's otherwise really desirable. You'll know them when you see them.

4. Sell weapon parts, don't hoard them

Joel is ready for you…r stuff.

By the time you gather enough Crossbow Parts or insert weapon part here to build yourself something, you'll likely have found a much nicer item to use instead. There's very little you can't find on traders or through quests—so save yourself the headache and just sell the parts to a vendor. They're worth a decent amount of dukes.

3. Save your brass

Good luck, survivor.

The only ingredient for making bullets that we can't mine? Brass. Brass is found by scavenging or scrapping various brass items that you find in the world. Radiators are made of brass, so are dukes.

Right now, the only way to increase the amount of this valuable yellow metal is to read Wasteland Treasures Vol. 7 and Lucky Looter Vol. 3.

2. Add a mod to a weapon, tool, or piece of armor before selling it

Just don't sell the one you're using.

Modded items sell for more dukes than those without, and most mods are worth under 100 dukes anyway. Adding cheap mods to a decent weapon makes the price jump considerably and makes selling those items worth your while.

To add a mod to a weapon, tool, or piece of armor:

Open your inventory.
Select the item you want to mod.
Hit 'Mod'

1. Keep a back-up of your save file once you get a vehicle

Yay, truck time! Until your game explodes.

There is a fun glitch where, sometimes, a vehicle will just… despawn. There's no reason behind it that I can see, it just happens.

If it happens to you and you're exceptionally lucky, you'll just lose a bike or two—but some folks on Reddit and elsewhere have reported losing bigger vehicles with full inventories. I lost my bike this way. So far, though… fingers crossed.

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7 Days To Die Review - Is It Worth Playing in 2023

rapidfirekitten — Sat, 13 May 2023 01:27:47 +0000

Any hesitation about playing 7 Days to Die is understandable: the game is nearly 10 years old and has never left Alpha. It's also one of the few games that has seen consistent updates and changes throughout its time in Early Access. I stopped buying Early Access games for quite some time because of how many wound up being abandoned by their creators.

Is it worth buying after ten years in development? Let's take a look at the game's features and figure that out.

About 7 Days to Die

7 Days to Die is an open-world zombie survival sandbox game. Craft by day, defend yourself at night—mostly. Don't run out of food or water, and don't let the wildlife or other players kill you. Good luck.

The Fun Pimps released the game into Steam's Early Access in December 2013. Since then, it's up to 20 major Alpha updates alone and boasts 800 in-game items plus 1300 different building blocks.

The only limits? Your imagination and physics. Yes, physics. More on that in a bit.

Over 14 million copies of 7 Days to Die have sold since release.

7 Days to Die Story

This is turning out to be a really bad day.

Welcome to Navezgane, Arizona, population: you, a handful of survivors, and millions of the shambling dead. You're a survivor in a world decimated by the third world war, trying to stay alive with a mysterious virus on the loose and its victims trying to eat you.

7 Days to Die has a pretty typical storyline among zombie media, but you won't run into story content outside of quest and treasure map text. It's Coming Soon™, eventually.

There's plenty of room for creating your own stories here, but if you play games in order to follow a narrative and get immersed in someone else's tale, this isn't the game for you. Yet.

7 Days to Die Gameplay

A little sample of how the game works.

Before you start playing, you get to create your own character using a bunch of sliders. The model updates in real time as you make adjustments. Hair options are limited. You're not gonna see much of your character once you enter the game, though: 90% of the time, you're in first person view. You have the option of selecting a premade character if you just want to jump into the game.

7 Days to Die doesn't have classes. You earn XP through activities like killing zombies, harvesting materials, and chewing on the scenery. As you level up, you get points that you can put into improving your character.

You'll also find better equipment and recipes for making new things as you play. If you make friends with traders at city outposts, you can buy your way to having incredible gear, instead.

It's possible to sustain your gameplay entirely on crafting, or on running quests, or just by scavenging. You can choose to be nomadic. You can build up a kick-ass shelter or improve an existing building and make it your own.

Just make sure that whatever you build is structurally sound. Knock out too many walls, or dig too large of a cave, and everything will come crashing down on top of you.

Like I said earlier: physics. The game does inform you if what you're building won't support itself, just watch for the blocks to change color. If you're building something and the blocks orange or red, it's time to set up a support pillar.

You won't find friendly NPCs outside of the traders outside every major city. Each trader acts as a vendor and quest-giver. They'll send you to other traders sometimes, but that's the extent of interaction.

There are currently 30 different zombies in the game. Of those, 11 are 'normal', 8 are a little tougher than average, and 11 are special. Special zombies—including bears—have different skills and mechanics that make them dangerous.

I think you made a wrong turn somewhere, biker dude.

Every type of zombie can spawn as an extra-fast, extra-tough feral or Radiated version. If you think being mauled by an undead bear is bad, try getting puked on by a radioactive cop that explodes when near-death.

Much of the fun of 7D2D comes in the form of randomly-generated maps. From 4k to 16k, representing areas as big as 256Km², you have plenty of room to play and slay. The game places towns, villages, points of interest, and biomes based upon the options you pick in the generator.

That feature alone helps replayability, and with a healthy modding community and hundreds of active servers, there are options for building the game beyond what you get out of the box.

7 Days to Die Combat

Show those zombies who's boss with a range of weapons and combat styles. Take this agility combat build, for instance.

The game prepares you for the apocalypse with 52 craftable weapons in three categories: melee, ranged, and explosives. As your character levels up, you're able to invest points into different perks that improve your killing power.. Perks also teach you to make better quality weapons.

7D2D gradually increases the difficulty of zombie spawns the longer you play. With the Blood Moon Horde arriving every 7th day and getting bigger each time, there's no shortage of targets. The game hasn't introduced any 'bosses' yet, though some zombies can feel like that kind of an encounter when they're exploding in your face and you don't yet have the equipment to handle them.

Like most games of its type, 7D2D uses a free aiming system. Headshots are king, but can be difficult to obtain because of the jerky movements zombies make. Once you learn how to aim, or once you craft or loot a scope, you'll have no problem taking out the shambling undead from a distance.

Nothing is more satisfying than a baseball bat to a zombie noggin, though.

Multiplayer combat works similarly to PvE in that you hit the other person until they die.

One feature that 7D2D has that I rarely see elsewhere: auto-attacking turrets and robotics. Build a drone to help heal you, or build shotgun turrets to shoot down zombies and protect your base.

7 Days to Die Quest/Mission System

After the intro quest that walks you through the basics of survival, the game leaves you to figure things out yourself. Quests are picked up at traders, which are points of interest in the game where you can buy or sell stuff. Quests are a great way to obtain amazing gear early on, and they just get better as you complete them.

When you approach a trader, hit 'E' to interact, and select the "Do you have any jobs?" option to open up their list of missions.

Quests are split into multiple types: clear an area of zombies, fetch an item, fetch an item while killing zombies, restore power, establish a trade route (visit another trader), or dig up buried supplies. You can improve the rewards you get from these quests by putting points into the appropriate perks.

Missions automatically increase in difficulty as you complete more of them.

This system gets repetitive, especially if the game is repeatedly giving you one or two mission types.

7 Days to Die Graphics

It isn't going to blow your mind with realism, but it still looks decent enough that you can lose hours just tinkering around.

7D2D will run on its lowest graphics settings on a machine that is close to, but doesn't meet, the minimum system requirements. It's recommended to have at least 12 GB RAM, a graphics card with 4 GB dedicated video memory, a 3.2 Ghz Quad Core CPU or better, and at least 15 GB hard drive space. With a handful of mods, it still clocks in at under 20 GB and scratches my survival itch without breaking my hard drive.

Unlike some games (ARK, I'm looking at you).

Do not pet the zombies.

Zombies look semi-realistic, with shiny gore and jerky movements. The illusion gets broken when the zombies die and ragdoll physics take over, or a rabbit glitches as it dies and the corpse goes zooming across the desert.

7D2D's graphics are decent for an early access game. They aren't AAA-level, but they don't have to be. You can and will get absorbed in whatever you're doing, and you won't have to have a $3,000 system to enjoy it.

7 Days to Die Developer

The Fun Pimps was founded in 2012 and started developing 7 Days to Die over Thanksgiving dinner. Each developer has extensive experience in the gaming industry, and the company has been very open to ideas put forward by the community.

Features brought up by players get discussed and implemented on a regular basis, and if they aren't, then the modding community is right on it. There have been weeks where multiple fix-it patches have gone out to deal with bugs, with most major issues getting fixed not long after they've been found and researched.

Bug fixes come out on a regular basis, with no more than two months between small patches (usually) and a maximum of 8 months between major content drops.

7 Days to Die Price

7D2D retails for $24.99 USD and goes on sale for 60-70% off during major Steam sales—it was $5.99 in March 2023. Unless you're desperate to scratch that zombie-shooting itch, there's no reason that you have to buy it at full price.

Mac and Linux users are able to play the game, too, and it's available on Xbox One and Playstation 4. Console versions haven't been updated since 2017 due to the closure of Telltale Games, and in November 2022 it was announced work is being done to port the game to Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X/S, so stay tuned.

FINAL VERDICT

Pros

Lots to do
Thriving modding community
Fair price point
Fun with friends or alone
Sees regular updates

Cons

10 years in Alpha is a long time
Console version is not up-to-date
Major patches tend to force server wipes because they change so much stuff

Score: 7/10

In short: Alpha 21 is looming and due for release Soon™. Wait until it drops before investing time in this game, as it's going to change a lot of mechanics and make chunks of what I've written here completely moot. Surprise!

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[Top 15] 7 Days to Die Best Defense Tips

rapidfirekitten — Fri, 12 May 2023 16:41:21 +0000

15. Craft a lot of ammo

Don't get caught with your pants down, or with your ammo at 0.

Every shot uses one unit of ammo, no matter what weapon you're using. Every time an auto turret takes a shot, it also uses a unit of ammo. Once auto turrets run out of ammo, they stop working. Once you run out of ammo, you die.

Yes! This is obvious and it's something that bears repeating: if you want to survive during the apocalypse, you have to keep a healthy supply of ammo.

Bullets, arrows, and crossbow bolts stack up to 300 unless you're using inventory mods. Bullets take bullet tips and casings; shotgun shells take buckshot and paper; both take gunpowder. Arrows are simple: stones or iron or steel arrowheads, wood, and feathers.

How to get ammo:

Craft most ammo in the workbench. Stone and iron arrows and crossbow bolts can be crafted from your inventory.
Obtain it from a trader. The price depends on your perks and buffs.
Loot it from containers.
Get ammo from air drops.
Complete quests. Ammo is sometimes among the quest reward options.

14. Prepare your supplies ahead of time

A balanced diet.

Make sure you have repair materials, food, and medicine stashed away ahead of time, because realizing you need something during a horde attack is too little, too late..

Hearty foods like Bacon and Eggs (Master Chef recipes are amazing) will serve you better in the long run because they recover more health and hunger than basic charred/grilled meat. Water is easy to obtain. Buffing drinks like beer are worth collecting because they make you kick more ass.

There's no simpler way to put it, y'all.

How to make sure you have a supply surplus:

Loot everything. Every container, every drop, whatever you can carry. Your inventory will expand considerably once you unlock vehicles.
Sell what you don't need, scrap trash, and store the scrap.
Do quests as often as you can and select what you need from the rewards.
Grow crops. They don't need to be watched, zombies won't destroy them, and they provide a source of food materials.

In short, just play the game.

13. Spike traps are cheap and efficient carnage

Extreme pain in 3, 2, 1…

Spike traps and barbed wire fences are great for softening up zombies before they get to you. Zombies don't care if they're running directly into danger, so you can place these things in their path and save some ammo.

These traps need to be repaired or replaced as they break because they wear out as they damage zombies. Listening to them growl and groan as they stab themselves is worth the extra work.

Spike traps are effective for dealing with running zombies because they'll slow the critters down and have a chance to dismember them. They're good defenses well into late-game, and they're really cheap to craft: wood spikes cost 20 wood, iron spikes need 4 forged iron.

To make and use spike traps:

Open your crafting window and search 'spike'.
Choose how many you want to make by typing in the quantity in the crafting window, or using the arrows.
Click 'craft'.
Once they're crafted, equip the spikes and right-click to place them the same way you would any other block. Rotate with the scroll wheel or left-click.

12. Don't rely on just one layer of protection

Plates, beams, more plates…

7 Days to Die gives you many different options for your building blocks: if you can dream it, you can build it. A habit you'll want to get into is adding extra 'padding' to your builds, which strengthens them against the zombie hordes. It's harder to break three layers of cobblestone than one layer.

It doesn't matter what the block thickness is, either. You can coat a cube with square plates on one side and you'll still have double the HP of a single wall. I like to lay down my initial wall, then add plates to the outside so they're flush with the original. If I want to be really extra, I'll add another layer inside. As things break, they get repaired and replaced.

How to pick different block shapes:

First, search 'shape' in the crafting window. Depending on your progress in the game, you'll have Frame Shapes, Wood Shapes, Cobblestone Shapes, Concrete Shapes, or Steel Shapes.
Decide how many you want and click 'Craft'.
Equip your block stack.
Hold 'R' to open the radial menu and click the shapes menu button.
From here, scroll through all the different shapes. They're even sorted into categories, and you can use the search function to find the perfect fit.

11. Remember that zombies can jump—and climb

Zombie effing around, about to find out.

Zombies are able to climb ladders and jump up obstacles that are one block high. They are also able to jump on top of each other and stack, which they will do in a nightmare-inducing tacting to get your juicy brains..

Let's say you've taken refuge in a water tower. You've knocked off the bottom two blocks of the ladder. The only way to go is up—or smash the tower beneath you.

Most will scatter and beat up the tower, but you will also notice zombies piling up below the ladder. Once some are able to reach it, they climb the rest of the way.

Freaky, huh?

How to curb zombies' climbing and jumping habits:

Don't let your ladders touch the ground. Knock the bottom two blocks off, so you can jump to climb, but they can't.
Set up spike traps under the ladder, making it difficult for them to stack without injuring themselves. This will also help you with the kills.
Block the bottom half of passageways with easy-to-adjust blocks like hatches. Open the hatches to slow the zombies down. While they're busy beating it up, you can shoot them. Close the hatches when they aren't needed.

10. Make strategic use of the Robotic Sledge and Robotic Turret

The power of the burning shaft mod.

The earliest turrets you can make are the Robotic Sledge and Robotic Turret. The sledge is kind of like a battering ram for zombies. The robotic turret shoots approaching enemies. Both require you to be in range for them to run, and as soon as you're out of range, they stop working—only one at a time of each can be active.

With 5 points in the Robotics Inventor perk, you can run two Robo-Turrets and a sledge.

Sledges are great for knocking back incoming zombies, especially if placed beside a ladder or stairway. These robots pack a punch and get better as you upgrade the perk. Install a Weighted Head Mod and a Burning Shaft Mod to get more bang for your buck—and stunned, flaming baddies.

The Robo-Turret uses ammo that can be crafted from your inventory and is really cheap to make. Place one to assist mowing down zombies, or place two once you have the perk. Basic turret ammo costs only 3 scrap iron per unit.

How to place a Robotic Turret in sentry mode:

Equip the turret.
Right-click to trigger placement mode. Move the turret around until it turns green, which means you're allowed to put it there..
Right-click to place the turret.
To pick the turret back up so it can be reloaded, right-click on it when it's down. This will put it back into your inventory.

9. Invest in Auto Turrets as soon as possible

Nothing makes it up to the door.

The biggest advantage of SMG and Shotgun Auto Turrets is that they will operate without you present as long as they're powered up and have ammo. The disadvantage is that they use the same ammo you do in your guns (9mm for SMG and shotgun shells, respectively) and they require electricity to run. These turrets cannot be moved once placed, unless you're using a land claim block.

But they do their job very well.

Exactly like the shotgun, the Shotgun Auto Turret is meant to be used up close and personal. Its target range is 15 blocks versus the SMG's 30. Which one you use will be up to personal preference. Mix and match. They will operate while you aren't home, keeping your belongings safe from strangers and wandering hordes.

Some things to note: when facing Demolisher zombies, turrets are very likely to make them explode; turrets MUST be installed upright to work, even though you can install them horizontally; and if you place too many turrets, you may lose things like containers and crops because the game will freak out and objects could disappear. Remember the randomly disappearing vehicle glitch? Kinda like that.

How to load your Auto Turret:

Interact with it by pressing 'E'.
Drag your ammunition to the ammunition slots. Each slot holds up to 300 rounds.
Click the 'lock' button. This locks ammo in place and the turret will not fire otherwise. You can't add more ammo or remove what's there until you unlock it again.
You can also set the line of sight for the turret by clicking the camera display on the left side of the HUD. It will switch to a black-and-white view, just move the cone around to change what it takes for targets to piss off your turret.

8. Keep your enemy close, and blade traps even closer

Fans from hell.

Blade traps are huge and expensive:. they take up a 3 x 3 space, need a power source, and require steel to repair them..

Few things are more satisfying than creating a zombie blender.

The most effective ways to use them are by mounting one on top of another like a twisted sandwich of death, or mounting it on walls as pictured above. The 'sandwich of death' requires placing one trap on the ceiling and one on the floor directly below that. As zombies pass by, they get cut up from two different levels.

This takes care of block-high zombies like crawlers and dogs, prevents the creation of more crawlers, and can decapitate walkers.

Blade traps will need to be repaired during horde nights—which is all the more reason to set them up as your last line of defense. One above your shooting perch helps clean up zombies while they try to beat the snot out of you.

How to make blade traps:

Make sure you have leveled your 'Advanced Engineering' perk to 3.
Have the following materials in your inventory for each blade trap: 10 forged iron, 10 forged steel, 8 mechanical parts, 6 electrical parts, and 10 oil.
Search 'Blade Trap' in the crafting window. Choose how many you want to make, and click 'craft'.
Place traps by right-clicking where you want them to go.

7. Plant mines around your base to soften up the horde

Accidental explosions are just a bonus.

Land mines are a good early-game defense because the most basic type can be crafted in your inventory from a handful of scrap, some gunpowder, nails, and duct tape. Basic zombies are annihilated when they step on it.. A bunch of 'em hitting a mine field at the same time is beautiful, beautiful carnage.

The damage and explosion range goes up with the better mines, and there's a 33% chance for them to detonate if caught in another explosion—so it's rare for a single zombie to set off a chain reaction. Not unheard of, though.

Mines are best used by placing them around the outside of your base, away from the outer wall, as a buffer between your base and incoming hostiles.

Or around your friends while they're offline.

How to use land mines:

Craft them by searching 'mine' in the crafting window (or in the workbench, if using higher-tier explosives)
Equip them and go to where you want to place them.
Right-click to put them on the ground. Back away slowly. If you step on them, you'll likely die and have to start over again with placement.
Go out and repeat the process after they've been trampled by zombies.

6. Use hatches and railings to protect yourself

It's hard to believe that something so simple is such a headache for zombies.

Hatches, while 'open', will stop zombies in their tracks if they can't jump over them. This works to your advantage in a long hallway—they're stuck beating the hell out of that block while you shoot.

Use railings, selected from shape blocks, to create barriers as well. You can shoot through the gaps in the railings without damaging the block, and they possess the same health as their material's solid cube. Place railings back-to-back to double their strength.

How to effectively use short blocks to slow zombies:

Place a railing directly in front of your shooting position. Add a narrow block, like a plate, on the ceiling directly above, flush with the top block. This helps keep shorter zombies from coming in. A short pillar or a second railing on top accomplishes the same task.
Set up hatches on the blocks directly in front of the railing, along the route the zombies (should) take. If you do not have a hallway set up, then don't place the hatches. Expect to repair your railing while you fight, instead.
Yes, you can reverse this set-up and it still works: railing at the far end of the hallway, hatches along the length toward where you're hiding.

5. Don't underestimate the power of throwable explosives

Ragdoll physics in action.

Zombies like to bunch up during horde nights. With just one point in Demolitions Expert, you can craft the cheap-and-effective pipe bomb to take them out in droves—once you have a workbench.

Why pipe bombs and not molotov cocktails? Pipe bombs do approximately 253 points of entity damage without adding any multipliers or resistances: that's an insta-kill for basic baddies. A molotov just sets them on fire. You're less likely to blow yourself up with a molotov, but you aren't going to dismember a boatload of zombies or experience the joys of 7 Days' ragdoll physics with one.

Of course, if you like fire… have fun! Just don't drop your bottle of fire at your feet.

You can also use grenades and contact grenades, just keep in mind that their range is greater at 5 blocks for entities—so don't be a weenie, throw that sucker as far as you can.

How to throw explosives:

Equip the item. Your character's hand will now be holding the explosive.
Prepare the item by right-clicking. In grenades, this pulls the pin. On dynamite (best for clearing blocks) and pipe bombs, it lights the fuse.
Hold the left mouse button to charge your throw. The longer you hold, the farther it will go. With pipe bombs, you have 4 seconds after lighting it before it explodes in your hand.
Let it fly! Enjoy the fruits of your labor.

4. Build multiple outposts with supply caches

Hide your stuff wherever you like, mark it on your map so you'll find it later.

Having a back-up plan in case everything goes to hell is just the smart thing to do.

Whether they're placed by your world's various traders or peppered in the wilderness around your main base, setting up supply caches will help you recover a lot faster when things go to hell..

You won't need to turn these locations into impenetrable fortresses. If that's your thing, go for it. Instead, you'll have a chest with enough basics to get you back into fighting shape so you can take back what's yours (or so you don't just drop dead as soon as you set foot outside).

What to include in your outposts:

Wooden chests are basic as hell, but get the job done. You only need one of them per outpost.
Your preferred ranged and melee weapons at the highest quality you can craft (or get).
At least one stack of ammo for your ranged weapon. If making bunches of ammo to scatter around the countryside doesn't work for you, then just stick to your melee weapon.
Food. If you're still early game, go for whatever you can make. 10-20 of them will help recover lost health and boost your stats back to where you want them. The most accessible foods are corn bread, grilled/charred/boiled meat, and bacon and eggs. The best foods to stock without relying on canned foods are stews and pies. The best-hydrating drinks in the game are yucca juice and yucca juice smoothie. In a pinch, just have something.
Repair kits. Get what gear you have left back into fighting shape, and be able to keep your tools sharp for taking back your base.
Medicine. First aid bandages, first aid kits, or painkillers for recovering health and antibiotics for dealing with infection.

3. Repair and upgrade often, at least between every major horde

Nailed it.

All that stands between you and the ravenous dead is whatever you've built to hold them back. Once that fails, especially when dealing with Blood Moon Horde, you take the risk of being overrun. Injuries pile up, the dead take you down, you lose some XP and have to figure out what to do.

You can repair while defending against the horde—and you'll likely have to do some repairs during the event. It gets harder and harder to juggle this as the days go by, making it important to repair your builds and replenish anything that's broken before the next swarm.

How to repair your builds:

Have the appropriate materials in your inventory: wood, cobblestone rocks, concrete mix, forged steel, etc.
Equip a Stone Axe, Taza's Stone Axe, Claw Hammer, or Nail Gun, and right-click on the damaged block.
Hold the right mouse button until the block is at max 'health', then move on to the next.
Upgrading works the exact same way.

2. Understand how Blood Moon Hordes work

Our favorite medical trader knows the Blood Moon really well. Be like Jen.

A Blood Moon Horde is an event that happens, by default, every 7 days. It consists of a zombie attack followed by multiple waves of zombies, and they all know where you are. No amount of sneaking will save you.

This is the mechanic that drives your gameplay.

On the morning of a Blood Moon, the day indicator in the HUD turns red; later in the evening the sky turns red, too. It's a warning that you're about to have a bad time. It's usually stormy weather, the event is announced by thunder, and the first attacks happen around 22:00.

Everything goes back to normal around 4:00 the next morning the internal clock starts counting down again. This will repeat every 7 days, unless you change the game settings when you choose to load your save file.

What makes the Blood Moon Horde special is, aside from them knowing exactly where you are at all times, the zombies are stronger. You'll see more zombies than usual, they'll be faster, and you're more likely to see the special zombies. What you see depends on your game stage and settings, with the hordes getting bigger as time goes on.

How does understanding Blood Moon Horde mechanics help you?

It gives you a timeline to follow, so you know exactly when you have to have everything repaired and stocked up before you hunker down.
You know what signs and signals to watch for, so you know when to take cover. Sky turning red? Get to safety and get ready to fight!
It helps you judge what strategies will work for you. If you know what's coming, and how hard it's going to hit you, you can better decide how you're going to ride it out.

1. Think like a zombie

Think like a corpse! Corpses love convenience.

The key to defending yourself in 7D2D is understanding how the game's zombies work.

Zombies will use the most direct route to get to you. This is especially true of Blood Moon Horde zombies, who always know exactly where you are.

Tightrope that leads to a short wall, and you're standing behind that short wall? They'll walk the tightrope.

Tiny building with you standing at the back staring at the door? They'll bash in the wall directly behind you if they can reach it.

Veteran survivors use zombies' pathing to our advantage by providing one direct line to access us. The reason you see so many simple horde bases like the one above (by IzPrebuilt) is because they work. By setting yourself up high, out of reach from below, with zombie access being the comically-obvious stairway to hell, you're waving an "eat me" sign.

Except they can't eat you. They just think they can.

Very beautiful. Very powerful.

So, how do you use this information?

Put your base up high (at least 5 blocks high) or surround it with an open pit (at least 5 blocks deep). If using a pit, make sure there is a way out that lets zombies run around and back toward their entrance. This keeps them on the path you want them to follow and prevents them from trying to make their own.
If using a ladder to access your base, have it stop two blocks above the ground so zombies can't use the ladder, but you can. If your entrance is at 'ground level', use a drawbridge (that you can raise when you're inside) or set down frames that you can quickly pick up.
Provide zombies with one active entrance into your base at a time (surprise, it's a trap). If your base is up on a pedestal or otherwise up high, give them a stairway to a 'killing hall' lined with hatches to slow them down. This buys you time to kill the zombies before they reach you.
If your base is surrounded by a pit, give them a narrow bridge. As they try to pile up on that bridge they'll fall off and have to run back, which also buys you time to deal with them.
Let them see you, but make yourself inaccessible with hatches or shorter blocks. I like setting up railings for this purpose. With your frame block in hand, hold 'R' to open the radial menu and click the top button to select the shape type. Type 'railing' in the search and pick it. You can shoot through them without destroying the block.
Now sit back and wait.

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[Top 15] Most Popular Zombie Games In The World

SadisticServantFromOuterSpace — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 11:55:07 +0000

From the simplistic zombie action of Unturned to Left 4 Dead's multiplayer mayhem. The zombie genre has produced a number of timeless classics these recent years that quickly gained a global following. Now, it’s time to take a look at the Top 15 Most Popular Zombie Games in the World.

15. Unturned (PC, PS4, XBOX ONE, XBOX SERIES X/S, LINUX)

Starting off the list is this free-to-play zombie survival game, Unturned. Placing you in a zombie-infested world where your sole task is to survive against the living dead.

Unturned is a pretty endearing game that skillfully combines both the charm of the visuals and mechanics of Roblox and Minecraft. And with an active and loyal fanbase to support the game, this is one charming and delightful game that you should absolutely try at least once.

Play This Game If You Like:

Simplistic Visuals
Multiplayer
Crafting Mechanics
Pick up and play simulation gameplay

Fight your way through the adorable but thrilling zombies.

14. SCUM (PC)

Scum is a multiplayer survival game where you’re tasked to survive and escape its harrowing island.

In true zombie survival game fashion, Scum is an exhilarating experience that provides a deep and complex management system, without skimping on the action and gore. It’s a very immersive game that aims to provide realism with each of its mechanics, making your entire journey unforgettable.

Scum is a zombie shooter game done right.

Play This Game If You Like:

Multiplayer
Extensive management system
Character attribute customization

Survive SCUM’s dark world.

13. 7 Days to Die (PC, PS4, XBOX ONE, LINUX)

7 Days to Die puts you in the shoes of a survivor of a nuclear World War III, who must survive by finding shelter, food, and water, in a zombie-infested land.

7 Days to Die is an incredibly ambitious title that lets you have complete control over its zombie-infested world. With a deep crafting system, thrilling zombie panic-inducing moments, and heart-stopping horde attacks, there’s something here for everyone.

The game has come a very long way from its initial debut in 2013 and the game still retains its heart and soul, and everything is made even better with the introduction of multiplayer, making for such a chaotic good time.

Play This Game If You Like:

Crafting Mechanics
Base Defense
Multiplayer
Day and Night Cycle
FPS

Shoot and kill your way through 7 Days to Die’s world.

12. DayZ (PC, PS4, XBOX ONE)

Debuted as a mod for ARMA 2, DayZ soon turns into its own standalone game, where you must survive the fictional post-Soviet Republic of Chernarus where a mysterious plague has turned most of the population into violent infected.

DayZ is one haunting game that packs in a delightful but also terrifying world filled with many dangers; from the flesh-eating undead, wild lives, to even its cruel people. The game perfectly captures the tone of its bleak world, making for a great survival simulator game.

The game is incredibly unpredictable but also at times terrifying, making it a worthy game to experience.

Play This Game If You Like:

Multiplayer Game
Survival Mechanics
Open World Game

Trust or distrust in the world of DayZ.

11. Back 4 Blood (PC, PS4, PS5, XBOX ONE, XBOX X/S)

Serving as a spiritual successor for Left 4 Dead. Choose from a group of survivors as they fight and defend Fort Hope, from a group of grotesque infected called the Ridden.

Back 4 Blood retains and improves upon everything that its predecessor had to offer, resulting in a chaotic multiplayer game where bombastic mayhem is one of the key aspects of its entertainment. Along with a colorful cast of characters, grotesque-looking infected, and stellar gunplay that will keep you addicted.

One key change, however, is the replacement of the director AI in favor of a card system that aims to make each run feel diverse and thrilling. Providing an action-heavy game that will cover your monitor screen with plenty of buckets of blood and guts.

Play This Game If You Like:

Card Base System
Co-op Shooter
Over-the-top gore
Left 4 Dead

This grotesque creature is just one of the many you’ll encounter.

10. World War Z (PC, PS4, XBOX ONE, NINTENDO SWITCH, STADIA)

Set within the same universe as the film of the same name, World War Z focuses on a group of survivors of a zombie apocalypse from all around the world.

The game perfectly captures what makes the film and its novel so captivating in the first place, by providing a high-octane action that sees you exploring all around the world in a glorious and bombastic fashion.

It also manages to perfectly adapt the thrilling zombie encounters in the palm of your hands, as it lets you fend off hundreds, if not thousands, of incredibly fast and terrifying zombies to bash and shoot with its stellar combat.

Play This Game If You Like:

Insane amount of zombies to fight with
A colorful cast of characters to play as
Incredible and satisfying gunplay

There’s nothing more terrifying than a dozen hordes of zombies.

9. Call of Duty Zombies (PC, PS4, PS5, XBOX ONE, XBOX SERIES X/S)

Spawning from the popular Call of Duty franchise, COD: Zombies. The game puts you in the shoes of soldiers in the fight between the undead.

Those familiar with the COD franchise, know that it features some of the most bombastic action games of recent years, and this zombie spin-off is no different. Offering a highly addicting horde mode where you’re able to kill many shambling undead using the game’s satisfying shooting combat.

It retains what makes the main games exhilarating in the first place and injects a little bit of humor and zombie guts to provide us with an even more delightful experience filled to the brim with balls-to-the-walls crazy action.

Play This Game If You Like:

High octane action
Incredible gunplay
Horde Mode
Base Defense

Yes, there are lots and lots of zombies to shoot at.

8. Days Gone (PC, PS4)

Shoot and drive your way through Days Gone as former outlaw-turned-drifter Deacon St. John on a quest to find his presumably dead wife.

Days Gone is such a refreshing take on the tired zombie sub-genre, placing its horror and action in a post-apocalyptic world in the eyes of a biker. The game features tons and tons of gross looking infected waiting to tear you apart providing many moments that will put you on the edge of your seat.

As well as a complex crafting system and incredible biking, providing us with an experience that’s filled to the brim with thrills and chills.

Play This Game If You Like:

RPG Mechanics
Tense Zombie Action
Engaging Story

Prepare yourself for a wild journey.

7. Dying Light (PC, PS4, XBOX ONE, NINTENDO SWITCH)

Serving as a polished successor to Dead Island, Dying Light puts you in the shoes of Kyle Crane as he travels a Middle-Eastern city called Harren, infested with zombies in this first-person survival horror game.

Dying Light has everything that you love about the Dead Island series; the incredibly satisfying combat, intimate encounters with its gruesome undead, and a well-executed setting that will easily make you immersed in its world.

However, it also packs in tons of new features that make it easily stand out from its predecessor. Such as the amazing parkour system that makes each hop from one building to another feel ever so fluid, and the terrifying day and night cycle that will make you afraid of exploring in the dark.

All of this combined makes Dying Light a worthy game that every gamer needs to play.

Play This Game If You Like:

Fluid Parkour
Day and Night Cycle
Open World Game
Satisfying Combat

Terrifying and grotesque. This creature is just one of the many threats you’ll encounter in the game.

6. Project Zomboid (PC, LINUX, MAC OS)

Project Zomboid is an open-world isometric survival horror game set in a post-apocalyptic world where zombies roam free and you control a survivor trying to survive before your inevitable demise.

Project Zomboid is the perfect game to play if you’re looking for an incredibly bleak and immersive game that emphasizes its realism. Though it may look like a simplistic game on the outside with its graphics, the game holds an incredibly steep learning curve that makes even the expert of the genre sweat with tears.

Play This Game If You Like:

Open World Game
Survival Simulation
Simplistic Graphics

Get ready for one of the most intense games of all time.

5. Telltale’s The Walking Dead: Season 1 (PC, PS3, PS4, PSVITA, XBOX 360, XBOX ONE, NINTENDO SWITCH, ANDROID, IOS, MAC OS, OUYA)

Prepare yourself for one of the most touching stories ever told in gaming, as you play as Lee Everett

Telltale’s The Walking Dead not only helped redefine the point-and-click genre but also delivered one of the most compelling stories in gaming history. Every single decision presented to you will make you second-think about its consequences.

Making you care about its numerous characters is at the heart of TWD and the many sweat-inducing scenes with the shambling undead are just part of the fun and stress.

Play This Game If You Like:

Episodic Story Structure
Every single decision matters
Cinematic Approach
Story-Driven Game

Be attached to one of the most emotionally devastating game of all time.

4. Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (PC, PS4, PS5, XBOX ONE, XBOX SERIES X/S, NINTENDO SWITCH, AMAZON LUNA, STADIA)

In this return to form for the franchise, you assume the role of Ethan Winters as he searches for his long-missing wife in a dilapidated location that's riddled with unknown creatures lurking in the dark, as he solves cryptic puzzles and fights the monsters.

The game that resurrected the franchise, RE 7 helped breathe new life into the franchise by providing us with an incredibly horrific game, full of disgusting and stunning visuals and an all-new perspective that makes the horrors even more immersive.

The Baker family is an iconic and terrifying adversary and will easily make your skin crawl as you make your way inside their creepy and decrepit house. Jack Baker’s menacing presence makes each of his appearances jump-worthy and will leave a mark on you.

Play This Game If You Like:

Survival Horror
FPS
Heavy Focus on Puzzle

Don’t be afraid of the dark.

3. Resident Evil 2 Remake (PC, PS4, PS5, XBOX ONE, XBOX SERIES X/S, NINTENDO SWITCH, AMAZON LUNA)

A great remake of an already great game, in Resident Evil 2, you follow the stories of Claire Redfield and Leon S. Kennedy in two interwoven campaigns as they relive the nightmare of Racoon City.

Resident Evil 2 Remake brought the already excellent RE 2 original and gave it a modern facelift, resulting in one of the most terrifying and engaging games of the decade. The game placed the fixed cameras behind the player's back, making for a more precise combat and making each shot ever so satisfying.

The game also has incredibly gory dismemberment physics, coupled with an outstanding atmosphere that will make you easily shit your pants as you try to defend yourself from the horrors of the RPD. This is a modern classic that every single gamer should at least experience once.

Play This Game If You Like:

Survival Horror
4 Story Campaigns to play
Stunning visuals
Extremely gory

Marvel in the game’s glorious retelling of the 1998 nightmare.

2. Left 4 Dead 2 (PC, XBOX 360, LINUX, MAC OS)

Of course, no list is ever complete without Valve’s zombie classic, Left 4 Dead 2. Choose from four lovable survivors as they fight their way through massive hordes of infected to reach a certain objective in this five-chapter adventure that’s presented as a movie.

Valve has created tons of incredible FPS action games, and Left 4 Dead 2 is no exception. Featuring an incredibly charming cast of characters, coupled with satisfying gunplay and a variety of arsenal of weaponry, fighting the undead has never been more fun.

This is further emphasized with the introduction of the Director AI. This system makes sure every single run is never the same, making for a refreshing gameplay experience that’s essential for every zombie fan.

Play This Game If You Like:

FPS action
Multiplayer
Multiple Characters to play as
Versus Mode

There just had to be a clown in the game, didn’t it?

1. The Last of Us (PS3, PS4, PS5)

In this highly acclaimed game developed by Naughty Dog, you play as Joel, tasked with protecting and escorting a teenage girl named Ellie, across the post-apocalyptic United States.

Whichever version of the game you play, whether it's the PS3 original or the PS5 remake, the incredibly moving story remains the same. It and its characters are the heart of the Last of Us, making each second of the journey such a compelling and captivating one.

Exploring its lush and vibrant but dangerous world makes for such an immersive experience that no game can ever replicate. And with an incredible soundtrack to listen to, Last of Us cemented itself as the most popular zombie game, all around the world.

Play This Game If You Like:

Story Focus Game
Crafting Mechanics
Exhilarating Gameplay

Protect the immune Ellie from the clutch of the disgusting infected.

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[Top 10] Zombie Strategy Games That Are Excellent

SadisticServantFromOuterSpace — Sun, 18 Dec 2022 10:19:23 +0000

Zombie games have been a dime a dozen, with each release having the same plot and gameplay elements with little to no innovation. However, the combination of strategic genre helped breathe new life into the otherwise dying genre.

So now, it’s time to take a look at the Top 10 Zombie Strategy Games that are Excellent.

10. Colony Survival (PC)

The voxel world of Colony Survival, which is inspired by Minecraft, allows you to construct and defend your colony from the army of creatures that prowl the night.

Colony Survival requires you to build, survive, and strategize your way across an open world. Its expansive world, along with its addicting base defense gameplay, makes for such an engaging experience that you might just want to invest hours into it.

A lot of the game’s enjoyment comes from defending yourself against the group of bizarre-looking zombies in your colony, in a charming art style reminiscent of Minecraft. So, if you like the titular game, then there’s no doubt you’ll like this one.

Play This Game if You Like:

Tower Defense
Resource Management
Stunning Visuals
Voxel Gameplay

Prepare your colony before the undead arrives at night.

9. Decision: Red Daze (PC)

Decision: Red Daze is an action role-playing game that blends tower defense and survival mechanics to create a breathtaking experience. Leading your team of specialists through a post-apocalyptic wasteland in pursuit of a cure.

In Decision: Red Daze, killing hordes of zombies and acquiring resources has never been more enjoyable. A captivating game that keeps you playing as you fight your way through its hideous undead while offering thrills, chills, and explosive action.

Play This Game if You Like:

Base Defense
Open Exploration
Top-Down Shooter

Play as military soldiers fighting zombies.

8. Survivalist: Invisible Strain (PC)

Set 10 years after the infection started, you take on the role of a survivor trying to make it in a harsh world as you construct your new life.

If you love State of Decay, then you will surely love this highly addicting and stress-inducing strategic game. It’s a game that puts a large emphasis on survival as you try to defend yourself by any means necessary, including building a base that serves as your safe zone.

With a lovely cell-shaded art style and a weather feature designed to inject some life into an otherwise desolate and tough game.

Play This Game if You Like:

Cell-shaded graphics
Sandbox Mode
Challenging Gameplay

Save and make friends with the other survivors of the zombie-infested world.

7. Red Solstice 2: Survivors (PC)

Red Solstice 2 promises relentless, wild action. Plan your strategy and infiltrate a tactical real-time battlefield with your group of seven squad members.

Top-down shooters have always been a niche genre of video games, but Red Solstice 2 will quickly capture your attention with its explosive action gameplay and flexible strategic system that's open for so many experimentations.

It’s a game that packs in a worthy challenge, complimented by stellar combat and even more satisfying gory visuals, culminating in an experience that every gamer should experience.

Play This Game if You Like:

Real-Time Battle
Multiplayer Mode
Tactical Depth Gameplay

Fight your way through grotesque looking infected.

6. Yet Another Zombie Defense HD (PC, PS4, XBOX ONE, SWITCH)

Test your survival skills as you mow down hundreds of zombies and defend your base in Yet Another Zombie Defense HD.

Yet Another Zombie Defense HD pokes fun at the tired genre by providing a hilariously good time with its easy-to-pick-up-and-play gameplay that will keep you addicted for hours on end, especially with its multiplayer mode.

Although the game's appearance may appear simplistic, this is actually one of its greatest qualities. And with an assortment of weapons to choose from and an investing tower defense mechanic, you might just find yourself obsessed.

Play This Game if You Like:

Online and Local Co-Op
Base Defense Mechanic
Simplistic Gameplay

Defend yourself and others from the group of nasty and shambling zombies.

5. Rebuild 3: Gangs of Deadsville (PC)

Rebuild a ruined city and manage a group of survivors in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation.

A game that harkens back to the strategic role-playing board games of old. Rebuild 3 tasks you with reclaiming a post-apocalyptic world by making harsh decisions with significant consequences using its strategic mechanics. Managing your defense and supplies also makes for an engaging, sweat-inducing game.

Play This Game if You Like:

Random Events to Spice up the gameplay
Survivor Skills
Multiple Endings

Build a powerful faction in a zombie-infested world.

4. Infectonator 3: Apocalypse (PC, ANDROID, IOS)

Nothing’s more fun than being able to cause the zombie apocalypse itself, and Infectonator 3 succeeds at making this come true. As you’re tasked to drop a virus and spread it across the world.

Infectonator puts a new spin on the familiar strategic zombie game genre. By giving you the ability to put an end to humanity by infecting everyone that you come into contact with using its fun and chaotic mechanic that lets you put zombies or an infected item on a level.

It’s such a blast to see the level go from what initially appears to be a typical setting to one where every wall is covered in blood. The game also has an adorable pixelated art style that makes each bloody scene hilarious.

Play This Game if You Like:

Pixel Art Style
Upgrade System to Increase Zombie Stats
A variety of silly zombie types

Create mayhem in this charming pixel game.

3. Zombie Night Terror (PC)

Spread the pandemic and turn everyone into thirsty walking undead in Zombie Night Terror. A strategic game where you have direct control over the zombie horde's actions!

While some games on the list focus on the perspective of a survivor, Zombie Night Terror, on the other hand, focuses on the shambling undead as you play in a Lemming-style gameplay where you can wreak mayhem and eat the flesh of the living.

A game that boasts a simplistic but gorgeous art style, an in-depth strategic mechanic, and buckets of blood that will cover your computer screen, there’s a lot to love in this chaotic game.

Play This Game if You Like:

Sandbox Style Approach to Level Design
Different Zombie Types to cause mayhem
Challenging Puzzles

Let the blood cover the city streets.

2. 7 Days to Die (PC, PS4, XBOX ONE, MAC, LINUX)

In 7 Days to Die, you are put into the shoes of a survivor of the Third World War, where zombies have taken over the world. You must gather resources and find shelter before the undead make their way to you.

Putting a realistic spin on Minecraft, 7 Days to Die is an addicting game that puts a large emphasis on realism. To survive the enormous horde of zombies pursuing you, the game forces you to construct your own fort using its complex building elements.

The game may look rough around the edges, but it certainly doesn’t hamper the otherwise stellar experience. And while the game has been around for years now, it still remains highly memorable.

Play This Game if You Like:

Day and Night Cycle that affects the actions of the zombies
Base Building
Multiplayer Mode

Kill all the zombies on sight before the night comes.

1. They Are Billions (PC, PS4, XBOX ONE)

Immerse yourself in a post-apocalyptic steampunk real-time strategy survival game, They Are Billions. You are tasked to build a base and plan out your defenses to keep away the undead.

They are billions is a clever and complex game that requires your intense focus and thinking to be able to survive its zombie-infested world. It’s a game where every single battle is a tense and blood-curdling encounter.

Each of your supplies and even the town’s folk are scarce and just one bite from the undead could change everything and lead to your downfall. This is a game that even newcomers to the strategic genre could enjoy.

Play This Game if You Like:

Solid Base Defense Gameplay
Zombie Horde Attack
Real-Time Strategy

Yes, there are indeed billions of undead.

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[Top 10] Games Like The Forest (Games Better Than The Forest In Their Own Way)

WrydersWriting — Mon, 11 Jul 2022 21:23:02 +0000

What Makes The Forest So Unique?

The Forest is an open world survival horror game that follows the events of a plane crash, in which one of the survivors' son has gone missing from the wreckage and he seeks to find him. Your character, the father, must traverse the dangers of the island in which you've been stranded on and must survive that mutated canibals that are hunting you down to kill and eat you. This game is so unique because of the manner in which the horror is brought to you. The story and fear is brought to you almost solely through atmosphere. Loud screams in the distance, a constant eerie lighting, the rumbling of large beasts, and the knowledge that you are not alone even when you are: that is what makes this game so horrifying. Combining it with survival and construction mechancis as well as an endgame is simply the layers on top of the terrifying world that make this game one of the best Survival Horror Games to date, but what games can even compare if you've run this one dry?

10. Minecraft (PS3-PS5, Xbox 360-Xbox Series S/X, Stadia, PC, Mobile, Wii U)

Minecraft Cover featuring both Alex and Steve

Minecraft: The Wild Update

Minecraft is a sandbox PvE survival game that is owned and developed by Mojang Studios. It’s a simple game that follows the basic survival formula of crafting, building, and leveling up but doesn’t follow a story of its own. It does have several spinoff games that do follow a story, and it’s been around for years so I’m sure you’ve heard of it. If not, this is not a joke, you live under a rock.

While Minecraft isn’t an original concept on its own, it takes the sandbox survival concept to another level, far beyond what most others do. It’s full of all kinds of ways to build, level up, and explore. It’s a game that keeps on giving and has regular updates. You can explore underwater temples, go to the underworld known as the Nether, go to another dimension to fight a boss known as the Ender Dragon, explore caves, and build pretty much anything you can think of.

Much like The Forest, night brings danger you must be wary of and either you can sleep through it or spend the time wisely. Minecraft is a much easier game, and if you haven’t played it but you like The Forest, the experience is a very different one. They both have building, survival, but The Forest has plenty of horror and realistic mechanics, while Minecraft remains kid-friendly in design and tone, though many of the things you can build do require some extremely complex designs if you’re using redstone, which is essentially the game’s version of electricity.

While this is a very popular game I’m sure you already have, or at least you’ve played it or seen videos on it, it does belong on the list, but it’s one you’ll find on any list of games similar to The Forest, as it’s a very good baseline for sandbox survival games. If you haven’t so much as seen the game or given it a try, I suggest you do because it’s the perfect game for anybody who loves building in a sandbox survival.

9. Ark: Survival Evolved (PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X, Switch, PC, Stadia, Mobile)

The cover of Ark that best represents the chaotic nature of the game

ARK: Survival Evolved Official Launch Trailer

Ark: Survival Evolved is an “evolving” survival game full of all sorts of animals, weapons, and ways to play. It follows the story of a forsaken Earth that’s been overrun by kaiju and your character, whatever you may design them to be, is a clone of humanity sent to Earth to reclaim it and kill the kaiju. While this game is rich in storytelling in a somewhat untraditional manner, it does focus primarily on gameplay.

So what’s the gameplay like? You’ve probably seen all sorts of weird photos from gameplay or promotional art that features overly-buff humans with either primitive or futuristic weapons, maybe riding the back of dinosaurs or fighting other strange creatures. While this may be confusing it is a very accurate depiction, as through the game you upgrade yourself and your equipment, going from a nearly superhuman caveman to a futuristic hunter that could rival Predator.

While this game may be a very far stretch from The Forest in terms of similarity, it is here for a reason. It holds the base mechanic (as most of these games will) of needing to survive and weather the harsh terrain, plus pretty much everything wants to kill you. There’s a lot to learn, a lot to build, and a story to follow if that interests you. It definitely holds the same ideas as The Forest, though being much more sci-fi about it, however I will have to say that it is a very difficult game in comparison.

The Forest, while it has many secret things for you to obtain such as the flintlock or wingsuit, isn’t a complex game. If you jump into The Forest unaware of there being a story, you’ll eventually run into the pieces and put it together yourself, whereas with Ark you may just do the same thing but it is much more complex as it is much harder to progress. Despite its difficulty, it is definitely a fun and chaotic game to play especially with friends, so definitely give it a try.

8. Dying Light (PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X, Switch, PC,)

The beautiful but horrifying cover of Dying Light

The Dying Light Launch Trailer

Dying Light is a much more unique game here on this list. It’s the most linear game here, but still follows the concept of being an open world game with a bit of crafting. It follows the outbreak of a zombie infection in a middle-eastern city called Harran. You play as one Kyle Crane who infiltrates the city to retrieve sensitive documents within the “quarantine zone” working as an undercover GRE agent, but as he helps out one of the factions within the zone he begins to have a change of heart and sees that the agency he works for could be doing more to help and are choosing not to.

The gameplay features a weapon crafting system and upgrade system that requires you to acquire assorted parts to make. The game also has a day/night cycle, as most modern games do, but the night brings a true terror. Faster zombies, more dangerous enemies, and all sorts of horrors that are sure to stop you in your tracks. To counter most of these enemies, there’s one big rule: stay off of the ground. Dying Light is a parkour game and it does a great job being one mixed with horror and zombies. You can jump from building to building, run over zombies, leap over ledges and cars, and combining it with combat is also really helpful during tougher encounters.

It’s a very different game, and probably the furthest from The Forest on this list, Ark being a close second. However, what you can expect to find between the two other than a crafting system (even if it is very different), is a good story mixed with the horror of the unknown. The world is bleeding with an unsettling atmosphere. Most horror games rely on an uncommon enemy to scare you, but both games prove that even the most basic npc is enough to make you want to stay in for the digital night. The story also raises questions of your own character's morality, and pushes you as the player to do things you probably don’t want to do.

All in all, Dying Light is a fun game and for a 2015 game it could be easily mistaken for one from the newest generation of games. It’s got tons of enemies, a beautiful world, and very well-developed mechanics. This is a game that represents what a studio can do when not under the tight squeeze of a controlling publishing studio, as the people who developed it had tons of difficulties in its past with another group over them. The Forest and Dying Light may be very far from the same, but where the two align is a place that all survival horror fans can sit comfortably.

7. Bigfoot (PC)

Big Scary Monkey = Big Scary Game

BIGFOOT Update 4.0 Trailer

Bigfoot follows a group of hunters who delve into the forest to find the legendary Bigfoot. While it’s a game that allows any shoe size, despite its name, it’s not a game for everyone. Your goal is to not just find evidence of Bigfoot but put an end to his legend permanently.

When you arrive at your location, you must begin gathering evidence and weapons because you may be hunting Bigfoot, but he’s also hunting you. You can traverse a small open world with a day/night cycle, setting traps and cameras to spot him whether he’s by you and your friends or not. Collect pieces of information throughout the world to see what happened to previous residents of your current location and hunt down the cryptid or let him come to you.

The game has a very similar kind of horror as The Forest does, as at all times you’ll have the feeling that you maybe are being watched. Your enemy lurks in the shadows, strange sounds can be heard in the distance with seemingly no cause, and every moment is a fight for your existence. Whether you’re playing Bigfoot or The Forest, the constant question you should be asking yourself with every decision you make is: “Will I be the hunter or the prey?”

Bigfoot is a great game to jump into when you want the horror that comes with facing something much stronger than you. Bigfoot is like an encounter with The Worm on The Forest: a destructive force that will destroy anything in its path. The biggest difference is that Bigfoot is much smarter. There’s no survival aspect in terms of battling it out with mother nature, but the game certainly makes you feel like you’re fighting for your life.

6. Don’t Starve (PS3-PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X, Wii U, PC, Mobile)

Don't Starve and its amazing Aesthetic. It looks just like this in the game.

Don't Starve Opening Cinematic Trailer

If you love cooking games then you’ll hate this game because it’s not a cooking game, though that isn’t a bad idea. Despite its misleading name, Don’t Starve is a survival horror game with a very special style. It’s almost like a cartoon if cartoons existed back in the gothic era, with a very bleak shadow cast over the world. It initially follows an inventor by the name of Wilson who is coerced by a strange entity to open a portal to another world. After opening said portal, Wilson is sucked in and appears in a dark fantastical world where he (and others) must learn to survive, for the dark holds many threats.

The goal of the game is in the name! You want to be sure to find food to survive, especially through the night, because when night comes you have no choice but to sit and wait for it to pass, unlike most other horror survival games. You must build a shelter, craft weapons, and discover the mysteries of this strange world as you get ambushed by dog-like demons, living trees, and bees. Bees are scary in this world and any other world. When the first night comes, you better have a fire lit because stepping out into the dark alerts the eyes of hungry creatures that would love nothing more than for your flame to extinguish.

Nothing in this world is as it seems, and fight as much as you like, the world will constantly be trying to kill you. Whether out and about with nothing around, or spelunking in the depths of the dark caves below, you will always find an enemy. The creatures are harsh but at least they can be defeated, nature cannot. The two games share this idea, in fact. While the games may look different in terms of perspective, the idea is very much the same, more so than a lot of the games brought forth in this list. And while playing them side by side is a very different experience, Don’t Starve is certainly one worth getting, along with its DLC and sequel “Don’t Starve Together”, if you are a fan of The Forest.

5. Subnautica (PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X, Stadia, PC)

The cover of Subnautica, completely underselling its underwater horrors

Subnautica Gameplay Trailer

If you ask me, Subnautica is The Forest but underwater. If you changed the name to The Ocean then I would think it was by the same company and a spiritual sequel to The Forest, but to be fair, they came out the same year. Subnautica follows the crash landing of a space vessel known as the Aurora on an alien planet that is 99% water, with a very minimal amount of land to be explored. You’re the sole survivor and in the process of trying to find a way off of the even-more-blue marble, you discover that you’re infected with a strange alien disease. So your goal is basically not to die from disease, hunger, lack of water, too much water, and ocean life. Good luck with that.

Subnautica features all sorts of cool mechanics that allow for you to survive in these conditions. You must gather materials to build bases with what is essentially a hand-held 3D printer and you can also build devices that let you breathe longer underwater, create fresh food and water, and traverse to depths much too strong for humankind. The game adds a layer to its chaotic and horrifying nature because you have to think about what’s above you, under you, and around you all at once because you’re in the ocean. There’s plenty of creatures to be aware of too, from docile fish you can feed on to more terrifying explosive and giant beings that will destroy anything you bring to the party.

The world is full of environmental storybuilding and a horror of the unknown depths. While at first the idea seems like it's a basic “Minecraft underwater”, it doesn’t take long for you to see that there’s more to this game than just building and surviving. You can always go the route of building a beautiful underwater home and city, that’s always the fun of these kinds of games, but if you want to experience the true nature of this game, you must keep going deeper. There’s safety in the shallows, but little to gain from remaining there, much like The Forest.

4. 7 Days To Die (PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X, PC)

The 7 Days To Die cover, showing off its gritty and eerie feel

7 Days to Die Gameplay Trailer

The title of this game is very misleading. Your goal is not to die by the 7th day, though when day 7 hits you may think otherwise with how hard they throw everything at you. No, your goal is to survive past 7 days. The “plot” is simple. World War 3 happened and ended with nuclear war, and the undead are a result of the fallout and/or a strain of flu. While the game doesn’t do much to tell a story, it does make up for this in its gameplay.

7 Days is a very unique sandbox survival game. It takes in an aspect that Minecraft has, where everything is blocky, but makes everything realistic. Everything has weight so you have to make sure everything you build is structurally sound, and nearly everything can be upgraded. There’s an RPG element to the game as well with the ability to obtain skill points, xp, and upgrades. You level up, you craft, and throughout the entirety of it you fend off undead hordes. The night is dark and scary with zombies that are much faster than usual, but all in all is survivable. You still have to eat and drink and maintain yourself through different environments, much like The Forest, but this game is a lot more random and unpredictable.

It’s not the scariest game on the list, but it certainly does hold a constant feeling of dread and a withered world no matter where you are. Everywhere has a creepy and liminal atmosphere and it makes the game’s horror feel…strangely old. I don’t know how else to explain it. The unknown becomes known fairly quickly, but even as you upgrade, everything is still a threat. You have to be on your toes at all times, ready to fight, but the good news is that so long as you build a home with the proper defenses then you should be good when the 7th night rolls around. On the 7th night, and every multiple of 7, the zombies instantly know where you are and will come running for your home. That’s where the crafting system comes in. This game has a lot of things to build, so much that can be done, so if you’re focusing on your home and yourself in a good balance, you won’t have to lift a finger on night 7.

While the game has a lot going for it, it also has some issues. The game’s publishing studio is Telltale Games- yes, the Telltale Games that is responsible for The Walking Dead and The Wolf Among Us game series. Weird, right? Anyways, when it went under for a while, it caused a lot of issues for the developing studio, FunPimps, who are the ones responsible for 7 Days To Die. As a result, the console version of the game isn’t receiving anymore updates and the PC version was essentially slowed down in development. The game also has a very janky feel to it, though it has been polished over time. Everything you do feels incredibly slow, which isn’t always bad in a horror game, but in my opinion 7 Days isn’t a game that should have this feeling. Still, the game is wonderful and even if you don’t have a PC I do suggest giving the game a try, especially with friends!

3. The Long Dark (PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X, PC, Switch)

The cover for The Long Dark. It does well representing its beautiful survival that incorporates the horror of nature

The Long Dark Wintermute Trailer

The Long Dark is a peculiar one, as it is a strange mixture of story and survival. While survival and story isn’t a new concept, the way The Long Dark does it is very different. Games such as The Forest, Fallout, and We Happy Few have a story within their games and a focus on story and survival in some of them, but they don’t do it quite the way this game does. The Long Dark follows a pilot known as Will Mackenzie, and one Dr. Astrid Greenwood, who crash lands his plane in the Northern Canadian wilderness after a bright flash of light is seen in the air. After the plane crashes, Astrid is nowhere to be seen and Mackenzie goes off to search for her.

This is where the game gets weird. The Long Dark initially released as a survival game, with a very strong focus on surviving. The game’s survival mechanics are punishing and brutal (though there are difficulty settings to change this) and don’t really follow a story. Your goal is to survive as long as possible, and when you die, your save is deleted. Well the game eventually added a story mode, which is called Wintermute, and is not the only story that the game intends to keep. Wintermute is rather an adventure game with survival mechanics, more along the lines of Fallout (if you’re playing survival mode anyways). The story is episodic, and currently has 4 episodes at the time of writing this, with the 5th and final episode of the Wintermute story planned to release in 2023 (but they make no promises).

Another thing I’d like to note is that the people behind The Long Dark are clearly passionate about both story and survival, planning to continue updating both sides, so if you like The Forest for its survival mechanics alone or its story elements alone, The Long Dark has you covered. When Wintermute is over, that isn’t the end of the story either. They do plan to continue work on both of The Long Dark’s modes for years to come according to my research.

While the game isn’t horror in the same way that The Forest is entirely, it is horror. The harsh realities of nature are a horrific but magnificent thing, and this game incorporates that brilliantly. The Long Dark is a beautiful game in every capacity, and any fan of The Forest will be able to see the appeal in this one for sure!

2. Stranded Deep (PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X, PC)

Stranded Deep, Ocean Survival, Weird Hand Simulator

Stranded Deep Trailer

Stranded Deep is a survival game about a plane crash survivor who must defeat the odds and survive on an island with the resources mother nature provides. You can craft makeshift weapons, tools, and boats, and explore the ocean and its islands to try and find a way back home. The player must survive through various natural obstacles from weather, to hunger, to disease, to sharks, and even some unnatural threats. Your goal as the player is to find a way to escape the islands and simply survive until doing so.

Does this plot sound familiar? The only difference in that synopsis is that you don’t have to travel to multiple islands (though there are technically multiple islands in The Forest). Even the ending is similar to The Forest’s, without giving any spoilers of course. If Subnautica is The Forest underwater, Stranded Deep is The Forest on the water…more than The Forest already is anyways.

While you don’t have a whole lot of npc threats to worry about in comparison to The Forest, the game is more challenging. Its survival is more brutal and in a way that is more limiting, as you are only provided with an extremely small island from the start before you choose to make your way to another. If you’re a fan of ocean horror but not exploring said ocean horror, Stranded Deep is a perfect fit. There is a bit of ocean exploration, this is true, but it’s nowhere near the level of Subnautica.

I personally found the game too difficult to learn on my own, but I’m stubborn when I play games and refuse to look up walkthroughs, so if you play and get stuck, be wise. Unless you like the challenge, of course.

1. Green Hell (PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series S/X, PC, Switch)

Green Hell: Simply the Hell you'll be in

Green Hell Launch Trailer

Ah, Green Hell. The Forest of the forest. Wait, I think that already exists…whatever. Green Hell is a game entirely befitting of its name, revolving around the character Jake Higgins, an anthropologist who is searching for his wife in the Amazon rainforest. Mia is missing and Jake wants to find her.

In the rainforest, you are faced with all sorts of dangers, all of which are a lot like the previous games on this list. The game doesn’t only focus on your physical well-being but your mental well-being as well, which symptoms of declined mental state may come in the form of hallucinations. The survival aspect of course requires you to eat and drink, as well as sleep. Poisonous and dangerous animals pose a constant threat and you must craft all sorts of equipment to help yourself survive.

The game, if I had to compare it to others, is like a combination of The Forest and Stranded Deep, taking the setting of The Forest and its mechanics and pushing it even further with the mechanics of Stranded Deep. Its horror, much like the horror of The Long Dark, comes from the wrath of nature. The natural order of things is your enemy, and you must combat it if you want to survive and/or save your wife, though that isn’t required.

The gameplay goes deeper than that, though. You have the ability to inspect your body for wounds, which left untreated will become infected. To treat them you must use maggots to clear away the dead skin before cleaning it and bandaging it up. You also have a smartwatch which gives you all of the information you need for your well-being in terms of hunger, thirst, exhaustion, and health. This is something also seen in Stranded Deep. You have a journal that functions in the same manner as The Forest’s as well as a hunting system that works pretty much the same and a building system that’s very similar.

All in all, if you like The Forest, you’ll love Green Hell if you’re looking for a more challenging survival experience. It has the same outdoorsy “nature is scary” feel to it, while providing a fun and intriguing survival experience. The story is entirely optional, but a good story is always worth your time. And this is why I put Green Hell as the number one game to play if you like The Forest.

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[Top 10] 7 Days To Die Best Weapons Mods That Are Excellent

Alchemist001 — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 16:44:28 +0000

It’s a brutal and unforgiving world out there. If you’re going to survive for the long term among hordes of the undead, you better bring some serious firepower. It will certainly help if you run around with a big club or a gun or two, but it may not be enough. That’s when you reach for one of the numerous mods available to slap on the weapon of your choosing. Found when looting buildings or crafted, you can use them to augment your weapons and gain useful attributes like improved accuracy, better handling, bleeding effects, and much more.

1. Full Auto Mod

Squeeze that trigger until everything is dead, or you run out of ammo.

Things can go from zero to one-hundred real quick in the world of 7 Days to Die, and single-shot weapons just won’t do the trick. Open up a can of whoop-ass with the Full Auto Mod! You can attach this mod to all machine guns, the Desert Eagle, Handgun, and Auto Shotgun to increase the firing speed and fill the undead full of lead!

https://7daystodie.fandom.com/wiki/Trigger_Group:_Full_Auto_Mod

2. Drum Magazine Mod

Adding more gun to your gun

The Drum Magazine Mod doubles your weapons’ magazine capacity with the downside of slightly increasing the reloading time. However. The reload time is not too much of an issue when you have enough ammunition inside a single magazine to take down a dozen zombie freaks.

https://7daystodie.fandom.com/wiki/Drum_Magazine_Mod

3. Burning Shaft Mod

This girl is on fire!

This mod is doubly useful. On one hand - you get a chance to light zombies on fire which damages them over time, on the other, you can turn any weapon that this mod is compatible with (which includes most clubs, axes, and picks) into a pretty good light source.

https://7daystodie.fandom.com/wiki/Burning_Shaft_Mod

4. Barbed Wire Mod

Basic, but oh, so satisfying

Wrap a swath of barbed wire around the melee weapon of your choice and go to town on all incoming zombies! The Barbed Wire mod causes a bleeding effect that can really help out in tight situations where you might get cornered. Any little bit of extra damage helps, after all.

https://7daystodie.fandom.com/wiki/Barbed_Wire_Mod

5. Shotgun Tube Extender Mod

Just like the Drum Magazine Mod, the Shotgun Tube Extender Mod increases your loaded ammo capacity, so you have that much more firepower to fight back the undead. This mod in particular increases the magazine capacity by 37.5% which means that you will have 2-3 more rounds added. But those extra rounds loaded could mean the difference between life and death.

https://7daystodie.fandom.com/wiki/Shotgun_Tube_Extender_Mod

6. Bipod Mod

Trust me. You need this.

This mod increases your stability while aiming down the sights while increasing the sway and spread of rounds when firing from the hip. To some, this trade-off might be too much, but the increase in accuracy when aiming down the sights is incredible. Especially when you are in a tight spot and need the increased accuracy to get those headshots in.

https://7daystodie.fandom.com/wiki/Bipod_Mod

7. Reflex Sight

Snap-On to all the headshots

The reflex sight helps you quickly acquire targets or “snap-on” zombies, dogs, bears, etc., Which dramatically increases your ability to get those critical headshots when in a run and gun situation. This Mod works on nearly all ranged weapons.

https://7daystodie.fandom.com/wiki/Reflex_Sight_Mod

8. Scope 2x Mod

Boom. Headshot.

There are three different types of scopes in 7 Days to Die: A 2x Zoom, a 4x Zoom, and an 8x Zoom; and while there may be many out there who prefer to shoot things from a distance, I feel that most situations require you getting within close-range to mid-range with the undead. The 2x Scope will zoom just enough for you to get a good look at a zombie head before pulling the trigger, not to mention that the reticle helps with aiming.

https://7daystodie.fandom.com/wiki/Scope_2x_Mod

9. Shotgun Choke Mod

Blow them away with a concentrated blast of lead heading straight for their fat zombie faces.

Increasing the spread of your shotgun may affect more zombies with little damage, but it should be in your best interest to eliminate threats as quickly as possible, shouldn’t it?

Throw a Choke Mod on your shotgun and tighten the spread of your pellets. This also makes your crosshair smaller and increases the damage dealt at short range.

https://7daystodie.fandom.com/wiki/Shotgun_Choke_Mod

10. Cripple Em’ Mod

Lieutenant Dan, you ain't got no legs

As you progress through the game, you will notice that not every zombie shambles around and slowly swings at you. Some Zombies (notably Feral Zombies) will always run and strike fast. Grabthe Cripple Em’ Mod and open fire. This mod gives you a 20% chance to cripple bipedal targets, so you can slow down any sprinter zombies coming your way.

https://7daystodie.fandom.com/wiki/Cripple_Em_Mod