DayZ

A mod that invented modern multiplayer survival and directly seeded the battle royale lineage.

Released 2012 Developer Dean Hall Publisher Bohemia Interactive Platform PC Genre Survival Era Digital storefronts & indie Website dayz.com ↗

Mechanics it built on

Ideas DayZ inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Permadeath Run Structure ~~1980~~Survival Needs Clock ~~1980~~Open Data Formats and Mod SDK ~~1993~~Colour-Coded Loot Rarity ~~1996~~Persistent Shared World ~~1997~~

Descends from

ARMA 2 ~~2009~~

Directly influenced

PUBG: Battlegrounds ~~2017~~Escape from Tarkov ~~2017~~

Look this game up elsewhere

Official site ↗Steam ↗Wikipedia ↗MobyGames ↗IGDB ↗Giant Bomb ↗

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