
You lose everything on death, and friendly fire is always on. Other players can either help you, attack you, or steal your resources. You play on a server with up to 60 players. And you can create almost anything, like houses, camps, fences, and vehicles.Ĭharacters suffer hunger, dehydration, and hypothermia, so you need food, water, and medicine (like a blood transfusion). Your goal is to survive and build a base. You spawn somewhere in the map surrounded by The Infected (zombies), the NPC AI faction. The map, Chenarus, is huge and gritty, with an atmosphere akin to Escape from Tarkov. Nowadays, it plays like a survival looter shooter sandbox.


DayZ is the original multiplayer survival shooter, even though it began as an Arma 2 mod.
