DayZ Standard Edition

DayZ drops you into Chernarus, a post-Soviet country that fell apart after an infection turned most of its population into something that no longer negotiates. You start with a flashlight and a shirt. Everything else — food, water, a weapon, a coat, a working car — has to be found, and every other survivor you meet is either the best or the worst thing that will happen to you that day. The systems are unusually granular: hunger and thirst, body temperature, blood loss, broken bones, infected wounds that need antibiotics rather than a health bar. Death is permanent for that character, and everything you were carrying stays on the body for whoever finds it first. There is no campaign and no objective; the story is whatever happens between players on a sixty-person server. Bases can be built and defended, vehicles repaired from parts, and servers choose whether third-person view is allowed. Bohemia's Livonia map was folded into the base game for free, and the Frostline expansion added the arctic island of Sakhal. The Standard Edition is the full base game, and since the 1.25 update it includes the Livonia map at no extra cost — there is no separate Livonia edition to buy any more. The Frostline expansion is sold separately.