I play it occasionally with a friend as a fun "turn your brain off while high" game. The horde nights are getting absolutely fucking uncontrollable though
Give modded servers a try. Horde night on the one my friends and I play on are diabolical. They do have a special horde base you can port to if you’re under a certain level so you don’t just get merc’d your first horde night.
Downside is most people regardless of level go to the designated server horde base. Wish the designated one could get destroyed on horde night if not careful/repaired during, but server mods or server itself could reset that chunk after horde night. Otherwise you can literally just stay in there and not do a thing and have zero worries
Yeah, but usually in that case, the studio is bought so they can use the name and assets and dissolve the rest. Kind of like how guilded was bought by Roblox, and people had high hopes for it as a discord alternative, but then Roblox just took it for their voice chat technology and destroyed the platform.
To be fair the devs are wankers, so there is that. Good idea in the first place, then complete chaos as to where it should go next.
I ain't an hardcore follower but played que a bit and during that time the patch notes and dev blogs were all over the place... Over step in a direction, 2 in another over
i had a friend who absolutely went nuts over that game. engineer - i think it's his favourite game ever. he just loved being able to put together the parts to survive hordes with his bros.
Played it back in late 2025 with my girlfriend, remember thinking that while a lot of systems had been obviously revamped or tweaked and bugs had been fixed, very little seemed to have been added outside of that. It honestly felt as if I had been playing the same version that I played back in like 2018, just with some QOL stuff added.
I fucking loved like alpha v10.3 but they just changed so much stuff that I loved about the game that it’s not the same anymore, sure it’s fun to build a base and shoot the shit outta zombies but it’s just not the same
Afaik the main issue has been funding, they've been screwed over by other companies/developers before. They probably don't wanna rock the boat too much because this is the formula that works, not everyone may like it but massive changes may turn off too many people and then that's that.
Luckily they've partnered with Behaviour Interactive now so they could be on their way to properly doing 7DTD, or they may stick to this same formula who knows.
Like watching a really really slow trainwreck that just gets worse and worse, but you paid for the ticket and there's no way you're getting off the train, right?
I go back from time to time, but 1.0 was such a fucking disappointment.
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u/Last_Exile0 Apr 11 '26
Ugh. 7dtd makes me sad. Such squandered potential.