DayZ
Ever wonder how you would fare in a zombie apocalypse? Not very well if DayZ is any indication. This gritty survival game has you scavenging empty houses and fields searching desperately for food and water while also avoiding any and all encounters with the undead. You’ll need to find some ammo to help you deal with them but you’ll also have to keep in mind the presence of other players in the world who can be just as dangerous, or way, way more dangerous.
You’ll sneak up on someone as they rummage through a home, their life in your hands, as you debate whether or not to kill them and loot their corpse. Or you could try and reveal your presence to them, in the hopes that they too will prefer to cooperate rather than fight. But that puts you at risk of being gunned down and robbed. In a game where death is permanent such choices never becomes less nerve-wracking. Nowhere is safe. Snipers can pick you off from hundreds of meters away, you could be swarmed by zombies, or you could meet your fate at the hands of the very stranger you agreed to cooperate with not fifteen minutes ago when they suddenly snap and decide to murder you in cold blood.
This world changes you, it forces decisions on you that you often don’t want to make and therein lies the beauty of it all, the morbid reality of survival. The chaos that is DayZ simply wouldn’t be what it is if it weren’t for the principal mover at the heart of it all: permadeath. Watch your back out there.
