7 Days to Die

So some friends talked me into getting this game on Steam.  Its a early access beta which I usually will not participate in as hate to pay for a product that you don't know when it will come out, and you are paying to test it for the developer.   

Anyways they finally convinced me to buy it and I have to say I've become addicted.   This is a survival game with zombies and one hell of a crafting system.  I thought Minecraft was awesome for crafting this game takes it up a few more notches (see what I did there). 

You start off with one can of food and one bottle of water.  You have 4 bars you have to watch and keep up, food, water, health, stamina.   Food and water deplete over time so you have to keep eating and drinking.  The lower they are the less stamina you have which means you do not hit as hard, so it takes longer to cut down trees and kill zombies. 

Pretty much everything you see is usable for something.  Rocks laying on the ground can be crafted into sharp stones and combined with grass and sticks to make an axe.  Later on you can take clay and make molds to make weapon parts for crafting guns and ammo.  It really is a hell of a crafting system.  The one drawback is like minecraft you either have to guess how stuff gets put together or rely on wiki.  

There is a stealth system in the game so you can sneak around zombies.  During the day there aren't too many, at night thought they do come out and if you get their attention they will hunt you.  If you run inside a building they can even break though the walls if there are enough of them and they hit the wall enough.

Graphics are pretty low, this is now where near an AAA title.  There are some graphic glitches every once in a while but honestly after playing the game for a week I don't mind.  The mechanics of the game are very good and I have had a blast.  

You can join in with friends and do co-op to harvest and build.  I recommend this to anyone that likes a very in depth crafting system that doesn't focus to much on having the sharpest graphics or most realistic animations.