DayZ
Fair · Multiplayer · 2018
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
WAIT.
Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 55% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$49.99Fair
Typical seasonal cut
$24.9950% off
- Cost per hour
- $0.99/hr
- Reviews▼
- 78% of 472,910
- Genre rank
- Top 17% Multiplayer
Holding it back: Reviews
Watch this gameOne alert at $24.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 50.5h
- To 100%
- 134.4h 2.7x the story
- Achievements
- 13
Price and sales
- Sales
- 95 on record
- Typical cut
- 40% off
- Steam low
- $22.49 December 2020
- Sale every
- 37d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 52,116 now
- Recent reviews
- 84% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 1% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 74% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
35% start to <1% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 95 discounts in the 13 years tracked, the median cut is 40 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 5 days ago.
Its score puts it in the top 17 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 74 percent. Among the games that feel like it, No More Room in Hell (free, scores 80) beats it on value, while it beats Z1 Battle Royale (free, scores 1).
More about DayZ
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 23 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2026 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 798 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 201 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 43 percent of the 12,892 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 50.5 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 134, 2.7 times as much.
472,910 people have reviewed it, which is a big enough crowd to settle the number.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 5 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Fun survival simulator, but the master server response can be poor, this needs to be fixed.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
after looking at the controls and ui of this game I can guarantee you that this game was coded by hitler himself thats how old everything in this game is developers never touched the game after release because hitler killed them to make sure no other game like this is ever released
F this game, devs, and their support. Short story kid hacks into this account. Plays nothing but DayZ, I contact steam they confirm and help me get the account back. Few days later I'm game banned on DayZ. Contact steam support, you're responsible for your account (even though we know you were hacked). Contact BattleEye, hear nothing, bump request a few times. Finally get the same BS you're account is banned, you're...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 or AMD R9 270X, 25 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
DayZ scores 52/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/221100/dayzReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 3, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.