7 Days to Die
Worth it · Multiplayer · 2024
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $44.99.
- Length
- 53.2h
- Value
- $0.85/hr
- Reviews
- 87% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 70% over the last 30 days against 87% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 2 GB Dedicated Memory, 15 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $5.99, set in December 2022. Its cuts run 62 percent off as a rule. There have been 77 in the 13 years tracked, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Walking Zombie 2 (free, scores 70) beats it on value, while it beats Night of the Dead ($29.99, scores 44).
Players rate it 87 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 70 percent. Something recent has soured the room. 7 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 52 percent of the 12,013 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (cosmetic); the score docks it lightly for that.
HowLongToBeat players log 53.2 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 285, 5.3 times as much.
400,632 reviews stand behind that percentage.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating, which is the one that means it just works.
The drop-off
79% start to 5% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
17.0K players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Which way, white man? Chinese...or...Chinese? wrong answer. You're insta kicked from both lobbies. Understand the game is dead. Who cares if you were one of the first 500 beta testers. RIP and tear until they can rip off no more. Tiananmen Square, Nanjing, Whinnie the Poo. This is a safe space to comment because I used multiple banned words so they can't see this post. If you want to complain about Chinese...
I have nearly 5,000 hours in 7 Days to Die. I bought it when it was sold as a pure zombie survival sandbox. Over the years the developers steadily replaced player freedom with structured progression, standardized cosmetics behind DLC, left long-promised features (bandits, real story) undelivered across multiple "full" releases, and continued to claim the game wasn't really multiplayer while shipping and monetizing...
There's so much still to be changed and added to this game that saying it's no longer in early access is just a straight up lie.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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7 Days to Die scores 69/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/251570/7-days-to-dieThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 10, price as of Sep 24.
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