DayZ --> Multiplayer open-world survival FPS, set in the fictional post-Soviet Republic of Chernarus. It's real life counterpart is in the Czech Republic, where Bohemia Interactive is based in. Originally a mod released in 2013 for Arma 2 under the same name, development for the DayZ Standalone ended in 2018, where it became it's own game.. I started playing in 2023. This is my all time favorite game. I have, at the time of writing this, 650 hours of paranoidly sneaking around, getting sniped randomly, being yelled at by random people, and meeting so many types of people I'd never have the balls to speak to otherwise. The best part of this game, though, are the long, eerily silent hours you can spend in this game alone without seeing anyone, hearing distant gunfire, knowing at some point you may just cross paths. This is amplified even more on my favorite modded map Namalsk, where points of interest are very scarce and survivors must make the same journey to live, where camping towns is extremely common - more so than Chernarus. The amazing, and genuinely harrowing, stories I've lived through with complete strangers I will likely never see again absolutely make this the best game I've ever put time into.

See my Namalsk shrine here.

I. Zombies & Basic Care
So, you've woken up on the coast. What now? You always spawn facing North, so you can always use this to orient yourself a little.





Broken Legs, CQC, Shock Damage, Broken Necks , and Unconsciousness, Weather, Zombie Aggros, Helis, Cars, and Boats, Fires, Bullet Snaps and What direction you die in, Radio channels, Restraining others, Gas attacks, POX grenades, improvised filters and NBC suits. Noobtubes. Gun names. Bears and wolves. Halloween event. Christmas event. Walpurgisnacht. Basic cyrillic and important Cherno towns. Chernarus being called "Cherno" as in Chernogorsk. Achievements and Official servers. Sniper zeroing. Improvised suppressors, quick mag reloading and silent gun pickup.