A few of the things that have us hooked this week.

9th August 2024

Hello!

What have you been playing?

A screenshot from 7 Days to Die, showing a first-person perspective of a person holding a hunting knife as a bulbous rotten zombie charges towards them. There’s a feminine  zombie nearby with their arms outstretched as if hungry for brains. Perhaps they are.

Catch up with the older editions of this column in ourWhat We’ve Been Playing archive.

And all for less than a fiver to boot.

So, well done me, I suppose?

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But the problem I have is what to do now.

I think I’ve developed a case of game-ending-itis.

Now, that energy has got nowhere to go.

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It’s as though it’s blasted off the edge of a cliff.

These places genuinely frighten me.

The same yawning, impenetrable darkness.

It’s an image that still haunts me.

Nothing else seems as substantial or as meaningful.

Did any of you experience this?

Long games do this to us, I think.

It’s like a clenched mind relaxing, which sounds a bit gross.

My aim is to play it in co-op, and go through the whole thing again.

Whatever shall I do?

What I really like about it, though, is how customisable the sandbox experience is.

Note that there are now two versions of 7 Days to Die on console.

It won’t update to 1.0.