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DayZ

Bohemia Interactive · 2018-12-13

SteamPlayStation StoreAmazonMicrosoft Store

ActionAdventureMassively Multiplayer

Modes: Multiplayer, Co-operative, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO), Battle Royale

Releases: Dec 13, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), May 29, 2019 (PlayStation 4), Mar 27, 2019 (Xbox One), TBD (PlayStation 5), TBD (Xbox Series X|S), 2026 (Nintendo Switch 2)

How long can you survive a post-apocalyptic world? A land overrun with an infected "zombie" population, where you compete with other survivors for limited resources. Will you team up with strangers and stay strong together? Or play as a lone wolf to avoid betrayal? This is DayZ – this is your story.

DayZ is a $49.99 game released in 2018, estimated to have 10,000,000 .. 20,000,000 owners, with Mostly Positive (78% of 467,258 reviews) in the Action, Adventure, and Massively Multiplayer genres.

56,032
playing now
78%
positive of 468k reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
10,000,000–20,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
5,186
twitch viewers (latest)
69/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
52/100
IGDB user rating (185 ratings)
41/100
opencritic · weak · 25% recommend
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$49.99
steam price (US)

56,032 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 15:00 UTC (census sample)

DayZ is a multiplayer online 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.

Trailer

DayZ trailer thumbnail

DayZ - Official Cinematic Trailer

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Thriving
  • · 56,032 players in-game right now — a Steam top-100 title.
  • · 19,720 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2,465/week).
  • · Review velocity down 5% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 1% of 10,710 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 12M–28M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 468,391 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$54.99
lowest across shops (ITAD)$55.56

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $22.49 at Steam (2020-12-22) · bundled 3×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $55.95 · on sale 15 of 106 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5.8k5.8k20182026Week of 2018-01-01: 419 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 663 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 286 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 520 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 332 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 491 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 307 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 421 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 309 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 387 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 414 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 478 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 255 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 369 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 196 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 358 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 239 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 374 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 176 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 234 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 2,116 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 709 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 1,450 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 2,004 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 537 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 502 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 292 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 241 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 249 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 167 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 267 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 197 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 497 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 295 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1,476 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 417 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1,988 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 407 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 345 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 156 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 306 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 182 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 688 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 196 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 5,579 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 507 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 3,748 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 891 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 2,535 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 837 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 2,408 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1,145 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1,667 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 487 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 2,128 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 544 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1,813 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 534 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1,743 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 299 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 1,799 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 360 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1,228 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 269 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 2,246 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 499 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 1,672 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 298 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 3,251 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 440 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 3,163 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 526 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 3,286 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 564 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 2,395 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 400 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 1,912 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 315 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 2,011 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 310 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 2,004 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 386 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1,992 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 360 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 2,335 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 449 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 2,176 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 421 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 2,023 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 355 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 2,276 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 378 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 3,885 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 397 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 3,266 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 460 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 3,764 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 592 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 2,526 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 356 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 2,101 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 294 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 3,177 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 487 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 2,283 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 323 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 2,684 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 437 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 2,769 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 410 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 2,526 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 361 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 2,508 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 347 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 2,757 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 407 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 4,261 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 414 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 2,768 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 422 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 3,809 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 593 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 2,544 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 377 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 2,662 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 389 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 2,313 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 286 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 2,270 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 308 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 2,678 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 386 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 2,967 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 439 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 2,308 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 339 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1,993 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 300 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 2,140 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 306 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 5,848 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 554 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 3,446 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 567 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 3,507 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 488 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 2,798 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 385 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 3,036 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 354 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 2,293 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 364 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 2,698 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 471 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 2,190 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 351 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 2,718 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 339 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 2,219 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 289 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 2,252 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 285 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 2,770 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 605 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 2,920 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 850 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 3,287 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 683 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 2,816 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 449 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 2,956 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 537 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 2,805 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 523 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2,280 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 354 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 2,180 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 342 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 2,376 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 369 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 2,506 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 442 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 2,000 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 308 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 2,315 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 446 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 2,242 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 352 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 1,959 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 262 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 2,203 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 343 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 2,547 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 439 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 2,220 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 379 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1,988 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 335 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 2,237 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 368 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 1,574 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 298 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1,906 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 396 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 2,147 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 340 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 297 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 51 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

60k19k2026-08-06 16:00 — 43,183 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 21,406 players2026-08-07 22:00 — 44,505 players2026-08-08 13:00 — 42,579 players2026-08-09 04:00 — 29,644 players2026-08-09 19:00 — 59,964 players2026-08-10 10:00 — 28,467 players2026-08-11 01:00 — 30,843 players2026-08-11 16:00 — 44,874 players2026-08-12 07:00 — 20,882 players2026-08-12 22:00 — 36,046 players2026-08-13 13:00 — 32,350 players2026-08-14 04:00 — 20,908 players2026-08-14 19:00 — 49,157 players2026-08-15 10:00 — 32,157 players2026-08-16 01:00 — 34,043 players2026-08-16 16:00 — 55,570 players2026-08-17 07:00 — 21,264 players2026-08-17 22:00 — 38,477 players2026-08-18 13:00 — 34,108 players2026-08-19 04:00 — 21,045 players2026-08-19 19:00 — 48,882 players2026-08-20 10:00 — 26,184 players2026-08-21 01:00 — 27,860 players2026-08-21 16:00 — 43,144 players2026-08-22 07:00 — 25,735 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 45,671 players2026-08-23 13:00 — 46,792 players2026-08-24 04:00 — 21,559 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 49,719 players2026-08-25 10:00 — 26,113 players2026-08-26 01:00 — 27,474 players2026-08-26 16:00 — 42,981 players2026-08-27 08:00 — 21,680 players2026-08-27 23:00 — 32,226 players2026-08-28 14:00 — 36,974 players2026-08-29 05:00 — 25,849 players2026-08-29 20:00 — 56,394 players2026-08-30 11:00 — 42,161 players2026-08-30 15:00 — 56,032 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Chart history

#59#732026-08-062026-08-302026-08-06 — #592026-08-07 — #592026-08-08 — #592026-08-09 — #592026-08-10 — #592026-08-11 — #592026-08-12 — #592026-08-13 — #672026-08-14 — #672026-08-15 — #702026-08-16 — #692026-08-17 — #672026-08-18 — #672026-08-19 — #692026-08-20 — #712026-08-21 — #712026-08-22 — #722026-08-23 — #732026-08-24 — #712026-08-25 — #712026-08-26 — #722026-08-27 — #722026-08-28 — #732026-08-29 — #712026-08-30 — #71
Best Steam most-played rank per day (census top-100 snapshots).
PositiveNegative
95952026-08-072026-08-302026-08-07: 56 new positive2026-08-07: 6 new negative2026-08-09: 77 new positive2026-08-09: 11 new negative2026-08-10: 47 new positive2026-08-11: 49 new positive2026-08-11: 4 new negative2026-08-12: 68 new positive2026-08-12: 2 new negative2026-08-14: 47 new positive2026-08-14: 1 new negative2026-08-15: 53 new positive2026-08-15: 12 new negative2026-08-16: 56 new positive2026-08-16: 2 new negative2026-08-17: 73 new positive2026-08-17: 11 new negative2026-08-18: 43 new positive2026-08-18: 1 new negative2026-08-19: 37 new positive2026-08-19: 7 new negative2026-08-20: 50 new positive2026-08-21: 41 new positive2026-08-21: 8 new negative2026-08-22: 52 new positive2026-08-22: 14 new negative2026-08-23: 63 new positive2026-08-23: 4 new negative2026-08-24: 54 new positive2026-08-24: 8 new negative2026-08-25: 56 new positive2026-08-25: 11 new negative2026-08-26: 63 new positive2026-08-26: 7 new negative2026-08-27: 50 new positive2026-08-27: 2 new negative2026-08-28: 46 new positive2026-08-28: 8 new negative2026-08-29: 62 new positive2026-08-29: 13 new negative2026-08-30: 95 new positive2026-08-30: 13 new negative
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$55.95$0.002015-01-012026-08-262015-01-01 — best price $29.742015-12-01 — best price $34.992016-07-04 — best price $34.992017-05-08 — best price $34.992017-11-01 — best price $34.992018-01-04 — best price $34.992018-04-25 — best price $29.742018-11-01 — best price $34.992019-02-11 — best price $44.992019-07-09 — best price $44.992019-10-21 — best price $44.992019-12-04 — best price $44.992020-04-01 — best price $26.992020-09-14 — best price $44.992021-02-15 — best price $44.992021-10-22 — best price $26.992022-04-14 — best price $26.992022-10-25 — best price $26.992023-03-16 — best price $26.992023-11-21 — best price $26.992024-04-15 — best price $26.992024-09-19 — best price $49.992025-01-02 — best price $49.992025-06-02 — best price $49.992025-09-29 — best price $24.992026-03-19 — best price $24.992026-05-19 — best price $55.652026-05-28 — best price $24.742026-06-05 — best price $55.282026-06-14 — best price $55.542026-06-22 — best price $54.822026-07-01 — best price $54.582026-07-09 — best price $49.992026-07-17 — best price $54.852026-07-26 — best price $54.592026-08-03 — best price $55.212026-08-11 — best price $55.362026-08-26 — best price $54.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

7412622026-05-28 — 318 pageviews2026-05-31 — 356 pageviews2026-06-03 — 309 pageviews2026-06-06 — 335 pageviews2026-06-09 — 667 pageviews2026-06-12 — 368 pageviews2026-06-15 — 338 pageviews2026-06-18 — 310 pageviews2026-06-21 — 682 pageviews2026-06-24 — 493 pageviews2026-06-27 — 365 pageviews2026-06-30 — 366 pageviews2026-07-03 — 322 pageviews2026-07-06 — 357 pageviews2026-07-09 — 396 pageviews2026-07-12 — 350 pageviews2026-07-15 — 346 pageviews2026-07-18 — 313 pageviews2026-07-21 — 306 pageviews2026-07-24 — 423 pageviews2026-07-27 — 372 pageviews2026-07-30 — 369 pageviews2026-08-02 — 374 pageviews2026-08-05 — 331 pageviews2026-08-08 — 321 pageviews2026-08-11 — 341 pageviews2026-08-14 — 288 pageviews2026-08-17 — 311 pageviews2026-08-20 — 463 pageviews2026-08-23 — 436 pageviews2026-08-25 — 371 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

7.2k1.4k2026-08-18 08:12 — 1,510 viewers2026-08-18 15:12 — 5,645 viewers2026-08-20 08:12 — 1,434 viewers2026-08-22 09:12 — 2,702 viewers2026-08-22 12:12 — 2,516 viewers2026-08-22 15:12 — 3,848 viewers2026-08-25 18:12 — 3,467 viewers2026-08-26 20:34 — 5,284 viewers2026-08-26 23:34 — 3,202 viewers2026-08-27 03:34 — 1,966 viewers2026-08-27 06:34 — 2,341 viewers2026-08-27 09:12 — 1,359 viewers2026-08-27 11:34 — 3,513 viewers2026-08-27 14:34 — 4,319 viewers2026-08-27 17:34 — 6,166 viewers2026-08-27 21:34 — 2,653 viewers2026-08-28 00:34 — 2,958 viewers2026-08-28 03:12 — 3,141 viewers2026-08-28 04:34 — 4,703 viewers2026-08-28 06:34 — 2,082 viewers2026-08-28 08:34 — 3,009 viewers2026-08-28 10:34 — 2,759 viewers2026-08-28 13:34 — 3,249 viewers2026-08-28 16:35 — 5,730 viewers2026-08-28 19:34 — 7,091 viewers2026-08-28 22:34 — 3,747 viewers2026-08-29 01:34 — 2,721 viewers2026-08-29 04:34 — 2,234 viewers2026-08-29 07:34 — 1,976 viewers2026-08-29 10:34 — 2,453 viewers2026-08-29 13:34 — 3,665 viewers2026-08-29 16:34 — 4,794 viewers2026-08-29 19:35 — 6,627 viewers2026-08-29 22:34 — 4,335 viewers2026-08-30 01:34 — 5,369 viewers2026-08-30 04:34 — 1,835 viewers2026-08-30 07:34 — 2,176 viewers2026-08-30 10:34 — 2,398 viewers2026-08-30 13:34 — 4,072 viewers2026-08-30 15:34 — 5,186 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

13
achievements tracked
34.4%
earned "Act of mercy"
4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsMulti-playerMMOPvPOnline PvPCo-opOnline Co-opSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsSteam WorkshopSteam Cloud3 DLC

12 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Czech, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Xbox One (Xbox)71,0863%13
PS4 (PlayStation)43,6032%13
PS4 (PlayStation)31,3471%13
Steam (Steam)27,5572%13
Switch (Nintendo)0—0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

FPSPvPCo-opActionHorrorSandboxShooterZombiesSurvivalOpen World

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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