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
  • Black Friday
  • 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
Don't miss these
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
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 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
A young woman with a camera is loomed at by a cryptid
Adventure Find and photograph cryptids in 2D adventure Lone Pine
Blight: Survival guide - Looking out over a marsh
Action Blight: Survival—everything we know about the medieval co-op horror game
Some dude showing me picture his brother drew of me.
Horror Cronos: The New Dawn reviewers say it's an 'atmospheric and uniquely introspective' survival horror outing—but it's held back by 'run-of-the-mill combat'
Ama looking in a mirror.
Horror Blumhouse's latest horror game Sleep Awake is the first psychological horror I've enjoyed in a hot minute
Kyle Crane looking angry and cut up
Action Dying Light: The Beast review – A step down from zombie-stomping greatness
An incredibly eerie, shirtless man grins at the camera, surrounded by fire.
Horror Who needs Silent Hill? The 'anxiety horror' game I'm most looking forward to is this freakish, grotesque thing about who you let stay at your house in the apocalypse
A dinosaur attacking a person
Survival & Crafting Co-op dino survival horror game Deathground prepares to launch with one final reminder that, no, 'you won't be able to play as a dinosaur'
Nate in his gray onesie looks at an ice cream truck and a distant mountain
Action 'You wouldn't believe how much stupid s**t is in this giant world': The Baby Steps devs want you to know as little as possible before you play their walking sim
Silent Hill F
Horror Silent Hill F dials down the action just a bit for a new story-focused trailer
Popular
  • Essential Hardware
  • Top 100
  • PC Gaming Show
  • Arc Raiders
  • BF6
  • Quizzes
  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
 
 
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 zombie
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
 
 
Latest in Survival & Crafting
A player smokes a cigarette in first person while their comrades drink vodka and play a guitar in Misery.
Stalker dev GSC Game World DMCA'd a Stalker-inspired indie off Steam⁠, and the devs are crying foul: 'This is an abuse of power against small independent developers by a large corporation'
 
 
A Rust NPC holding a gun while the player wields a rock
My return to Rust is going well, other than my freakish Guns N' Roses-loving neighbor shooting me every time I try to hang string lights on my roof
 
 
No Man's Sky Mass Effect Normandy SR-1
No Man's Sky is rerunning all of its expeditions from 2025, while also giving players another chance to add Mass Effect's Normandy to their spaceship collection
 
 
A Rust player rides a horse as it leaps into the air.
Rust doubles down on its 'controversial' meta changes by wiping everyone's crafting blueprints to 'bring back that sense of discovery', and it might become a regular thing
 
 
Four Minecraft Cosplayers on Halloween
Minecraft cosplays have come a long way since I started playing over a decade ago, and this year has shown the most creativity I've seen yet
 
 
Dragon Ball Z DLC Crossover in Minecraft
Minecraft's DLC crossovers never fail to impress me, and the new Dragon Ball Z collab changes the experience entirely
 
 
Latest in Features
Nosebleed update
If you love Arc Raiders, you really need to try my favourite extraction shooter: The Forever Winter
 
 
A lineup of superheroes on a CRT monitor
The dispatching minigame in Dispatch is good enough to be a standalone game
 
 
Key art for Service With a Shotgun, showing two shop clerks preparing to fend off zombies
Five new Steam games you probably missed (November 10, 2025)
 
 
A truck drives through a bamboo forest with a mascot in the back
Why I love driving around oddball Japan in Promise Mascot Agency
 
 
Two children on ridge overlooking futuristic arcology colony city.
'The human body is equivalent in mass to 50,000 crickets': In city builder Generation Exile, humanity's last hope for sustenance is cricket mush
 
 
The Sims 4- Bella goth looking sad
The life sim revolution was supposed to happen this year but it completely evaporated
 
 
  1. Two of the best PC cases with the PC Gamer Recommended badge in the top right.
    1
    The best fish tank PC case in 2025: I've tested heaps of stylish chassis but only a few have earned my recommendation
  2. 2
    Best gaming laptop 2025: I've tested the best laptops for gaming of this generation and here are the ones I recommend
  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. City view with colosseum in distance
    1
    Anno 117: Pax Romana review – A polished city-builder that goes the extra mile
  2. 2
    Logitech MX Master 4 mouse review
  3. 3
    Gigabyte Aero X16 gaming laptop review
  4. 4
    Arc Raiders review: An extraction shooter for all
  5. 5
    Victrix Pro BFG Reloaded controller 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...