DayZ (video game)

DayZ
Developer(s)Bohemia Interactive
Publisher(s)Bohemia Interactive
Director(s)
  • Dean Hall
  • Brian Hicks
Producer(s)Eugen Harton
Programmer(s)
  • Filip Doksanský
  • Miroslav Maněna
Composer(s)Filip Míšek
Platform(s)Microsoft Windows, Xbox One, PlayStation 4
Release
  • Windows
  • December 13, 2018
  • Xbox One
  • March 27, 2019[1]
  • PlayStation 4
  • May 29, 2019[2]
Genre(s)Survival
Mode(s)Multiplayer

DayZ is a multiplayer only survival video game developed and published by Bohemia Interactive. It is the standalone game based on the mod of the same name for Arma 2. Following a five-year-long early access period for Windows, the game was officially released in December 2018, and was released for the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 in 2019.

The game places the player in the fictional post-Soviet Republic of Chernarus (Based on the real life region of Ústí nad Labem in the Czech Republic), the original setting of Arma 2, where a mysterious plague has turned most of the population into violent "infected". As a survivor, the player must scavenge the world for food, water, weapons, and medicine, while killing or avoiding the infected, and killing, avoiding, or cooperating with other players in an effort to survive the outbreak.

In December of 2019, the very first DLC terrain was released, setting players in the fictional Polish-speaking country of Livonia, directly ported from Arma 3.

DayZ began development in 2012 when the mod's creator, Dean Hall, joined Bohemia Interactive to commence work on the standalone version of the game. The development has been focused on altering the engine to suit the game's needs, developing a working client–server architecture, and introducing new features like diseases and a better inventory system. The game sold over three million copies during its early access phase.

  1. ^ "DayZ leaves Xbox Game Preview and gets full Xbox One release at end of March". Eurogamer. March 13, 2019. Archived from the original on March 13, 2019. Retrieved March 14, 2019.
  2. ^ "PS4 DayZ coming to PS4 on May 29". Gematsu. May 25, 2019. Archived from the original on May 25, 2019. Retrieved May 25, 2019.