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This is unfair to count as a deterrent against checking the game out, but it's another built-in frustration you'll need to be attuned to navigating and anticipating. Even when you're just hosting a game for others to join and being there by yourself, the game will reliably lag or stutter unpredictably. All of this means there's a heavy investment of time required from the player, although fortunately online multiplayer means you won't have to be completely alone in the wilderness if you don't want to. But online, there are problems as well. There are so many menus thrown at you and that are hard to navigate, and it's difficult to discern what you should be paying attention to it's also difficult to discern when and what to call up based on different survival situations, such as you're bleeding out or starting to get dehydrated (all of which is made that much harder to do on a console). For one, 7 Days to Die makes a lot of assumptions about who you are if you're playing it: Even basic tasks such as upgrading building materials you've already constructed is unclear, and your'e never given clear instruction on how to perform them (for example, you press the left trigger instead of the right).

This survival and exploration game tries to improve upon the sandbox formula but only rests on what has already worked before, with interesting but not necessarily groundbreaking results.
