Skip to main content
PC Gamer PC Gamer THE GLOBAL AUTHORITY ON PC GAMES
UK EditionUK US EditionUS CA EditionCanada AU EditionAustralia
Sign in
  • View Profile
  • Sign out
  • Games
  • Hardware
  • News
  • Reviews
  • Guides
  • Video
  • Forum
  • More
    • PC Gaming Show
    • Software
    • Movies & TV
    • Codes
    • Coupons
    • Magazine
    • Newsletter
    • Affiliate links
    • Meet the team
    • Community guidelines
    • About PC Gamer
PC Gamer Magazine Subscription
PC Gamer Magazine Subscription
Why subscribe?
  • Subscribe to the world's #1 PC gaming mag
  • Try a single issue or save on a subscription
  • Issues delivered straight to your door or device
From$32.49
Subscribe now
Popular
  • Essential Hardware
  • Battlefield 6
  • Arc Raiders
  • Silksong
  • Quizzes
Don't miss these
a zed with a visor screaming
FPS Killing Floor 3's Rearmament update drops this Halloween, bringing new weapons, a revamped perk system, and loads of bug fixes and performance improvements
a first-person POV of someone throwing a grappling hook ahead of them
VR Reach combines the best of Mirror's Edge and Prince of Persia in a sleek VR package
ominous eyes in a retro pc setting
Horror 'Liars must be punished': Dyping Escape looks creepy as hell, pitting you against a pair of eyes that seem to be taking over your PC
A player points a Mosin rifle at a bandit emerging from a house in Road to Vostok.
FPS Road to Vostok finally has a playable demo on Steam and it's the most terrified I've ever been of getting shot at in a videogame
A guy with a shotgun
Survival & Crafting 'The Day Before 2?': Everyone is skeptical about this survival game promising a map five times the size of DayZ and 5,000 players per server
Promotional screenshot of Toxic Commando, showing dozens of zombies attacking a group of players.
FPS The new John Carpenter game will absolutely stuff your screen with zombies
A dinosaur preparing to attack
Action After more than a year of waiting, Jurassic Park: Survival gives us a tiny gameplay tease in a fluffy behind-the-scenes video
A person being scanned with UV light
Sim Quarantine Zone creator reveals 3 reasons the zombie sim went viral on TikTok
Kyle Crane ripping a zombie's head in half in Dying Light: The Beast.
Survival & Crafting Techland reveals an 11-week roadmap for Dying Light: The Beast, the gaming equivalent of a hastily-drawn sketch showing the way to the nearest post office
A woman saying she was bit by a dog
Sim 'People hate it. It's very annoying. It's like a boss in Dark Souls': Quarantine Zone's biggest source of negative feedback is that dang supply cart
A person being inspected for zombie virus
Sim Quarantine Zone: The Last Check has been wishlisted on Steam 1 million times, and will be published in November by Devolver Digital
A zombie
Survival & Crafting No More Room in Hell 2 delays its 1.0 launch into 2026, confirms that 'child zombies will not be present in the final product' just in case you were wondering
Blight: Survival guide - Looking out over a marsh
Action Blight: Survival—everything we know about the medieval co-op horror game
A young woman with a camera is loomed at by a cryptid
Adventure Find and photograph cryptids in 2D adventure Lone Pine
Cronos: The New Dawn sci-fi survival horror
Horror Cronos: The New Dawn's sci-fi survival horror channels RE4 and Dead Space, but it took Bloober awhile to realize it 'subconsciously' is also a game about Covid
  1. Games
  2. Survival & Crafting
  3. DayZ

DayZ screenshots are stealthy, contemplative, and not exactly action-packed

Features
By Tom Sykes published 12 June 2013

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

DayZ - sign

DayZ - sign

The revamped Chernarus is looking particularly gorgeous - well, apart from all the zombies and dudes with guns.

Page 1 of 7
Page 1 of 7
DayZ - bedroom

DayZ - bedroom

Building interiors have also had a lick of paint. You'll be able to enter more of these in the Standalone, though by the looks of things you won't be coming across many mattresses.

Page 2 of 7
Page 2 of 7
DayZ - life preserver

DayZ - life preserver

A guy stares thoughtfully at a life preserver, possibly thinking about all the friends and family he's lost to the sea - or maybe he's just wondering why the damn thing is clipping through the ground.

Page 3 of 7
Page 3 of 7
DayZ - hide

DayZ - hide

There won't be any vehicles at the DayZ Standalone's launch - Dean Hall and co are going to make some big changes, and add them later on.

Page 4 of 7
Page 4 of 7
DayZ - hallway

DayZ - hallway

PC Gamer would like to exclusively reveal that the Standalone will feature hallways.

Page 5 of 7
Page 5 of 7
DayZ - grunge zombie

DayZ - grunge zombie

This zombie is the very definition of Standalone.

Page 6 of 7
Page 6 of 7
DayZ shots

DayZ shots

Page 7 of 7
Page 7 of 7
TOPICS
E3
Tom Sykes
Tom Sykes

Tom loves exploring in games, whether it’s going the wrong way in a platformer or burgling an apartment in Deus Ex. His favourite game worlds—Stalker, Dark Souls, Thief—have an atmosphere you could wallop with a blackjack. He enjoys horror, adventure, puzzle games and RPGs, and played the Japanese version of Final Fantasy VIII with a translated script he printed off from the internet. Tom has been writing about free games for PC Gamer since 2012. If he were packing for a desert island, he’d take his giant Columbo boxset and a laptop stuffed with PuzzleScript games.

Read more
A player points a Mosin rifle at a bandit emerging from a house in Road to Vostok.
Road to Vostok finally has a playable demo on Steam and it's the most terrified I've ever been of getting shot at in a videogame
 
 
A guy with a shotgun
'The Day Before 2?': Everyone is skeptical about this survival game promising a map five times the size of DayZ and 5,000 players per server
 
 
Promotional screenshot of Toxic Commando, showing dozens of zombies attacking a group of players.
The new John Carpenter game will absolutely stuff your screen with zombies
 
 
A dinosaur preparing to attack
After more than a year of waiting, Jurassic Park: Survival gives us a tiny gameplay tease in a fluffy behind-the-scenes video
 
 
A person being scanned with UV light
Quarantine Zone creator reveals 3 reasons the zombie sim went viral on TikTok
 
 
Kyle Crane ripping a zombie's head in half in Dying Light: The Beast.
Techland reveals an 11-week roadmap for Dying Light: The Beast, the gaming equivalent of a hastily-drawn sketch showing the way to the nearest post office
 
 
Latest in Survival & Crafting
Minecraft Scape and Run parasites mod
5 Minecraft horror mods to make the overworld more intimidating this Halloween
 
 
Adventurers exploring a fantasy world
After 6 years, fantasy survive 'em up Necesse leaves early access with 'infinite seamless biomes', an end to its endgame, and a half-price discount
 
 
Kyle Crane ripping a zombie's head in half in Dying Light: The Beast.
Techland reveals an 11-week roadmap for Dying Light: The Beast, the gaming equivalent of a hastily-drawn sketch showing the way to the nearest post office
 
 
A creeper lurks over the shoulder of a miner in Minecraft.
The Minecraft devs probably wouldn't add the creeper if they were following their current design rules 'because it would actually be so controversial'
 
 
Nautilus and Zombie horse with player riding with a diamond spear in Minecraft Mounts of Mayhem drop
Minecraft's Mounts of Mayhem drop is now available to test, including sailing with the nautilus and a brand new weapon enchantment
 
 
abiotic factor
Abiotic Factor gets new roadmap featuring a mystery crossover, DLC plans, and new difficulty modes alongside dev Q&A: 'We're terrified of our obligations to the community so be nice, we love you'
 
 
Latest in Features
Astarion wearing shades and giving a thumbs up
RPGs make up more than 30% of PC Gamer's Top 100, so clearly we've settled on a favourite genre
 
 
Reanimal boss stood in the headlights of a vehicle in the darkness
Turns out Little Nightmares wasn't scary, Tarsier Studios was saving the horrors for the demo of Reanimal
 
 
Drinking in a bar
AdHoc and Critical Role's superhero comedy Dispatch cuts right to the best bits of Telltale's greatest games
 
 
Ventrue primogen Fletcher
Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2's sidequests are terrible, but you can safely skip them all
 
 
A car takes off down a muddy road, spraying dirt, in Assetto Corsa Rally.
Assetto Corsa Rally is a hardcore sim that proves Dirt Rally 2 was going easy on you
 
 
An illustration of a squad of Space Marine terminators firing storm bolters.
Confused about what's what in Warhammer? Let me introduce you to the Warhammer 40,000, Age of Sigmar, and Warhammer Fantasy settings in one easy beginner's guide
 
 
  1. MSI Vector 16 HX AI and Razer Blade 16 gaming laptops on a blue background with a PC Gamer logo in the foreground
    1
    Best gaming laptop 2025: I've tested the best laptops for gaming of this generation and here are the ones I recommend
  2. 2
    Best SSD for gaming in 2025: the fastest and the best value solid state drives to perk up your PC
  3. 3
    Best Hall effect keyboards in 2025: the fastest, most customizable keyboards for competitive gaming
  4. 4
    Best PCIe 5.0 SSD for gaming in 2025: the only Gen 5 drives I will allow in my PC
  5. 5
    Best graphics cards in 2025: I've tested pretty much every AMD and Nvidia GPU of the past 20 years and these are today's top cards
  1. A photo of the MSI MEG Z890 Ace motherboard, shown next to its retail packaging.
    1
    MSI MEG Z890 Ace review
  2. 2
    MSI MAG Z890 Tomahawk WiFi review
  3. 3
    8BitDo Retro R8 review
  4. 4
    Ninja Gaiden 4 review
  5. 5
    Acer Predator Triton 14 AI review

PC Gamer is part of Future US Inc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. Visit our corporate site.

Add as a preferred source on Google
  • About Us
  • Contact Future's experts
  • Terms and conditions
  • Privacy policy
  • Cookies policy
  • Advertise with us
  • Accessibility Statement
  • Careers

© Future US, Inc. Full 7th Floor, 130 West 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036.

Please login or signup to comment

Please wait...