DayZ Reviews

I loved and do love every single minute of this game.. the hard times the easy full kit shit and the "oh my fuck there are 1500 zombies after my boy" times.. that being said Community server owners are known to ban at the first whiff of skill against them or their friends.. RIP

Weird game, I have played for a few days so far and starved about 10 times, randomly dropped dead a few times and been attacked by players who just wanted to kill me a few times. The farthest I have got is I spent a few hours running around until I found water and a chicken, I was able to build a fire and roast the chicken just as my HP was almost gone from starvation, literally just as I was taking the chicken off of the stick someone either shot me or whatever but my screen went black and I died. Somebody said it is a starvation simulator and I have to agree. It's also a human hunting simulation for a lot of players. I think the game would be more fun if there were more loot. I don't think I have the time this game requires to have fun with it or achieve anything beyond dying from starvation or being helplessly hunted by other players. For a solo casual gamer looking to relax, I'd say this isn't the game for you.

Are you tired of living in a city? Are you tired of shallow and meaningless interactions with players online? Do you have an inner urge to live in the woods like Uncle Ted? Then this is the game for you! You can live in the woods, fish, pitch a tent, fist fight some wolves, kill zombies, and even commit war crimes on your fellow players. This game has it all my friend. This game will keep you company when you're away from home. Nothing is better than putting on a gillie suit, grabbing your rifle, a six pack of beer, and camping a zombie infested Army camp for hours and HOURS waiting for some unfortunate piece of shit to wander into your cross hairs. So if you're too poor to afford land in Colorado, hate human beings, and have a love of canned bacon then this game is for you! RIP OZZY!

I've put in plenty of hours on this game and it is fun and exciting. Sadly the number of cheats on the official servers has got out of hand. Maybe someone would find a stash every few months or longer at random, but now your's will be visited every 24 hours because people use ESP cheats to easily find loot. The next worse cheat are the shoot box aim bots. Players pay for these too and allow players to shoot at aerial hit boxes (+ 2000 yards) to hit players. No damage no noise just shocking your player to death. These are extremely prevalent on servers with high active users. So if you want to be a sneaky player with a nice stash hunting other players, sadly these cheats will ruin your experience quickly. All the best to Bohemia in their quest to rewrite this gem to remove these cheesy cheats. If anyone says Dayz cannot be hacked just google for Dayz cheats and sites with half million plus user bases will show up. Not all for Dayz but enough to make it pointless to play. I'd rather play on a server with 10 real people, than with a full server with one cheat ruining the experience.

4,223 days of development 16 December 2013 – 9 July 2025 Maybe Bohemia might summon Dean's ghost and deliver the game they promised instead of wasting 12 years of development with this incredibly depressing corpse of a game.

*This review is mostly based on DZSA modded servers since Vanilla DayZ is pure dehydration, starvation, disease, and death* No other game scratches the *hardcore-survival-looter-shooter-prox-chat itch* like this game. The contrast of ultra realistic firearms ballistics, but with the jankiest world collision hitboxes & zombies, will either make you love or hate the game... for the DayZ veterans maybe a bit of both. It feels like a glitchy retro game but also modern sim at the same time. Takes a while to get up and started with a base, pvp encounters are few and far between until you venture into cities/towns, but when you do encounter someone its pure adrenaline. One moment you're just running through the forest or looting a building, and the next thing you know you're in a gunfight holding 12 hours of loot and everything to lose, all while zombies are rushing towards you from a 100m away. No other game has made me more paranoid about losing my loot than DayZ although it gets better when you've established a base with storage. The sound of distant 1km away gunfire will give you a rush. The players are either the solo ghillie sniper, or the team who just rushes and flanks you on contact. If you're new, a lot of the times you won't know how you died (to that sniper) since it just cuts to black screen with no sound (can't hear the gunshot that killed you). Be prepared to use real world tactics & mechanics in this game to come out on top, eg. fire and maneuver, flanking, ambushing, concealment & cover, travelling in a spread out column formation with your group. Never sit still in the open in town. Even firearms mechanics like ballistics, zeroing, height over bore, etc. That or just rush in close range to spray and pray with an auto rifle. But seriously you'll save 100's of hours of pain, If you don't get the mechanics down in this game you're at a huge disadvantage. p.s. Play modded servers on DZSA launcher and bring a friend.

Have you always wanted to spend hours wandering through deserted forests, only to get scared by a bush? Or after two hours of looting, get killed by some guy in underwear wielding a stone axe? Then DayZ is the game for you! Highlights: Hope? A concept DayZ forgot to include in the patch notes. Small talk? “Are you French or a n****r?” DayZ’s take on cultural diversity. Food? You get it… if you’re lucky. Teamplay? Sure, if you enjoy being loot with legs. 10/10 Game!!

if you enjoy wasting hours only for hackers and petty server admins to ruin your game, this is for you

DayZ: The only game where you spend 2 hours gearing up, get fully kitted, and then slip off a ladder and die instantly or get killed by a bush.

I first and mainly played this game as an Arma 2 mod, but now my son is finally old enough to enjoy it with me, which has brought back the excitement i had when i first started to play this game. Sounds like the perfect time aswell with the newly announced DLC DayZ Badlands.