The game allows players to make custom maps without zombies attacking to set up scenarios or make player made game types.

Recently added in the Alpha 9 release, randomly generated worlds allow the player a new play experience every time they open up the game. This means every server will have a different dynamic based on their layout of the world.

Three different play modes including solo, with friends, or competitively over the internet.

The game is a mix between a voxel world and full polygon models for buildings, making for a versatile survival based world that brings exploration and creation to the zombie survival genre.

Structural integrity is a real thing in 7 Days To Die. That means there cannot be unsupported floating blocks. The player can set up traps to take out hordes of zombies with a falling building.

Weapons will break and crumble but can also be forged to be awesome, and food will spoil so the player must cook and maintain supplies.

Create everything from a chainsaw to various guns to defenses for your fort - the crafting system lists what you can make with the materials you currently have in the player's inventory.