A lot of things can be said about 7 days to die both good....and bad. At its core, this game is a craft and survive game much like Minecraft. The main difference is that this game is darker and more "realistic."

You can contract diseases, overheat, dehydrate, starve, freeze to death, and so on and so on. This at first makes it seem like a very promising game but quickly you realize far from it. Some of these things like overheating are incredibly over powered against you in that once you do contact one of these ailments, it almost always results in immediate death.

  • Wearing clothes? looks like you just started to overheat.  
  • Standing next to a fire because you were about to freeze to death? Looks like you're overheating.. again.  
  • Walking in a dessert? Overheating, and dehydrated!

For instance you can find cities inside the game and inside those cities you can find hospitals, bookstores, gas stations, and grocery stores. Further inside these locations you can find things vital to surviving like antibiotics or gas for the minibike you can craft to get around. The problem being this stuff is incredibly scarce, ah la the antibiotics. You need these to cure yourself from infections. When I started the game I had no idea where to look to find these (another major flaw being nothing is explained) and upon finding and looting an entire hospital...only11 antibiotics.

I can already hear you saying, "But Gossip Guys this is a crafting game, shouldn't you just craft the antibiotics and quit complaining about how scarce they are?" Sure, but when the ingredients for that item are near impossible to find in order for the crafting itself, the whole gameplay loop is broken.
Another fantastic example of how scarce things are is the actual food. Food in an of itself isn't hard to find, that's the easy part. The difficulty stems from finding edible materials that don't cause sickness or one of the various ailments that can cause you to perish. In the 20 or so hours I put into this game I only found and killed 4 deer, a total of 12 meat which in the long run is the equivalent of a Cliff bar to an athlete.

This game has so many promising features for people who enjoy the crafting genre and so many things to make this game feel fresh and new. It really is such a shame that it just doesn't really work as intended. All in all there are worse games out there in this ever growing genre but this game doesn't deserve a rating at the moment. Constant patches are improving the title each time and slowly it's becoming a decent game but until a majority of the broken elements are fixed, stay far far away.