7 Days to Die
Give it 3 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 2 reviews are negative (48%); after 20h it's 1 in 9 (11%).
- Fully opens up by hour 7.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- 79% of owners got the first achievement.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 403,186 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 298 reviews: 111.9h for positive, 96.1h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (78.7% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
This game has no story achievements, so we can't tell where players quit.
All achievements (43)
story milestone ending side
- Good in the sack Place your first sleeping bag, old bed or king sized bed 100%
- Cause he's the Ax Man Craft your first Stone Ax 100%
- Bite the dust Die one Time 96%
- The Grave Digger Kill 10 zombies 93%
- Handy Man Craft your first wood frame 92%
- Christopher Columbus Travel 10 Kilometers 84%
- Brush with Death 60 Minutes Lived in a single Game 81%
- Scavenger Reached Level 7 80%
- Alexander Bell Craft 50 Items 79%
- Playing Doctor Stop a critical bleed-out with a bandage, first aid bandage or first aid kit 76%
- The Homestead Act Place your first Land Claim 72%
- The Embalmer Kill 100 zombies 69%
- Evil Knievel You don't have a leg to stand on? 68%
- Knock em Dead Die 7 Times 67%
- Adventurer Reached Level 28 65%
- Ferdinand Magellan Travel 50 Kilometers 62%
- Near Death Experience 180 Minutes Lived in a single Game 60%
- Benjamin Franklin Craft 500 Items 54%
- Your Number's Up Die 14 Times 52%
- The Mortician Kill 500 zombies 51%
- Nomad Reached Level 70 49%
- Alive and Kicking Reached 4 in Fortitude 47%
- Henry Ford Craft 1500 Items 42%
- Marco Polo Travel 250 Kilometers 38%
- Cheated Death 600 Minutes Lived in a single Game 38%
- Meet Your Maker Die 28 Times 37%
- Fit as a Fiddle Reached 6 in Fortitude 36%
- Dig Deep How low can you go? 36%
- Warrior Reached Level 140 35%
- The Funeral Director Kill 2500 zombies 30%
- Healthy as a Horse Reached 8 in Fortitude 29%
- Thomas Edison Craft 5000 Items 29%
- Napoleon Kill another player 26%
- The Picture of Good Health Reached 10 in Fortitude 24%
- On top of the world Reach for the sky? 21%
- Survivalist Reached Level 300 21%
- Nearly Immortal 1680 Minutes Lived in a single Game 18%
- Dirty Larry You feel lucky? 17%
- Neil Armstrong Travel 1000 Kilometers 15%
- Julius Caesar Kill 5 other players 11%
- Genghis Khan Kill 10 other players 7.6%
- The polar bare club Cold enough for you? 6.9%
- Alexander the great Kill 25 other players 4.6%