7 Days to Dieis receiving a lot of negative feedback from players following the release of the game’s 2.0 update, which arrived in late June. Fans of7 Days to Diehave been thrilled with the game in its past incarnations, but a wide variety of recent changes is now causing many to call on publisher and developer The Fun Pimps to switch it back to the way things used to be.
While theopen-world survival horror gameis available on multiple consoles, possibly the best barometer of reactions to the recent changes can be found on Steam. Since its release on the platform about a year ago, the game has enjoyed a very positive reception, with 88 percent of more than 257,000 reviewers giving it a thumbs up. However, recent reviews published in the last 30 days have fallen into the “Mixed” category, with only a 68 percent approval rating from its players.
Themassive 2.0 update to7 Days to Die, titled Storm’s Brewing, was built to add new biomes, resources, zombies, and storms to mix up the gameplay, in addition to a big wave of quality-of-life features. But many fans are not reacting well to any of those changes, with one popular player review on Steam calling Storm’s Brewing “a betrayal of everything this game stood for” and encouraging the developers to offer refunds to dissatisfied fans. It seems from this review and others that much of the dissatisfaction is based around the slowing down of progression and removal of freedom, which had been essential to the game’s sandbox-based nature.
7 Days to Die Fans Want a Pre-2.0 Version Rollback
The additions of Burnt Forest, Pine Forest, Desert, Snow, and Wastelandbiomes in 7 Days to Diehaven’t been problematic in their own right, but many players are taking issue with the way the development team has handled the special features that these new biomes hold. Each biome presents its own set of challenges for players to complete, including gathering resources and fighting enemies that have been specifically curated to exist in those regions. However, many fans are indicating that the hazards these biomes include are significantly hampering the gameplay loop by making players craft items that help mitigate environmental damage that accrues over time without them, and it’s taking time away from playing the parts of the game they actually enjoy.
Fans also have gripes about the five new storm types, which have been interfering with visibility, combat, and the game’s performance on some machines. Patch 2.1, which arrived on July 15, has helped to soften the blow by reducing storms' length and frequency of occurring. But that mitigation isn’t enough for many former fans, some of whom are calling for a developmental rollback to as early as 2024, when7 Days to Diewas still a big hit.
