Hostile player interactions, or simply just struggling through severe weather can easily turn into intense, nerve-racking moments where you experience very real emotions. Scavenging for supplies and roaming the open world never feels safe in DayZ, as you never know what's behind the next corner. If you fail, you lose everything and start over.

Every decision matters - with no save games, and no extra lives, every mistake can be lethal. There are no superficial tips, waypoints, built-in tutorials or help given to you. You are one of the few immune to the virus - how far will you go to survive?ĭayZ is an unforgiving, authentic, open-world sandbox online game where each one of 60 players on a server follows a single goal - to survive as long as they can, by all means necessary.

Fighting over resources has bred a hostile mentality among survivors, driving what’s left of humanity to collapse.

The post-soviet country of Chernarus is struck by an unknown virus, turning the majority population into frenzied infected.

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