DayZ
Intense overall intensityWhat's in it
Realistic firearm and melee combat against infected and other human players, with blood, bleeding-out wounds, and corpses; no dismemberment focus.
Bleak post-apocalyptic survival where starvation, sickness, and betrayal are constant, including eating human flesh that inflicts the incurable kuru disease.
Tense atmosphere with swarming infected, sudden wolf and bear attacks, and lethal contaminated gas zones.
Standard survival hunting of chickens, pigs, cows, and deer that are then skinned for meat and hides.
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What it is
DayZ is a hardcore multiplayer survival game set in fictional Eastern-European countries after a plague has turned most people into hostile 'infected.' Players scavenge houses, farms, and military sites for food, water, medicine, weapons, and clothing while managing hunger, thirst, illness, and injury. Combat is realistic and can be bloody, using melee weapons and firearms against both the infected and other human players. Encounters with strangers are unpredictable: they may cooperate or ambush and kill you for your gear, and death is permanent, erasing all progress. Players can hunt animals for food and hides, and the game uses proximity voice and text chat, so unmoderated conversation with strangers is a routine part of play.
How it's framed
The game frames its violence and hardship as consequences of a brutal survival scenario rather than glorified action; there is no scripted morality system, so the tone is set almost entirely by other players. Trust, betrayal, and killing over scarce resources emerge from player interaction, and the persistent, permadeath world presents survival itself as the only real objective.
Details
- Developer
- Bohemia Interactive
- Publisher
- Bohemia Interactive
- Released
- Dec 13, 2018
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