Set on a snow-covered archipelago called Sakhal, spanning an impressive 83km² (not including ice sheets), featuring a breath-taking winter wilderness teeming with new challenges and opportunities for survival. Brace yourself for a truly immersive adventure where the environment itself is as much your adversary as the infected and other survivors.

The developers describe the content like this:

This game may contain content not appropriate for all ages, or may not be appropriate for viewing at work: Frequent Violence or Gore, General Mature Content.

DayZ is a multiplayer-focused sandbox game. Other players might behave unpredictably and impact the game experience significantly. Voice chat and text chat can be disabled from the in-game options menu.