Bohemia Interactive has announced a 4-day long DayZ Free Weekend Event, starting on Thursday, February 13th and ending on Monday, February 17th on Steam for the game’s Windows PC version. This gives players ample time to try and play for free, albeit most preferably with friends, DayZ having recently won the Better With Friends award on Steam.

Dayz Free-to-Play Weekend

The game will be downloadable and playable free on PC via Steam starting today, Thursday, February 13th (10 AM PST / 6 PM UTC) through to Monday, February 17th (10 AM PST) at the following address: steampowered.com/app/221100/DayZ/

For those infected by the DayZ experience, there will also be a 40% discount on the base game, as well as a 10% discount on the recently released Livonia DLC, should you wish to continue playing after the free weekend ends.

About DayZ

DayZ is an unforgiving, authentic, online open world survival sandbox game where each one of 60 players on a server follows a single goal – to survive as long as they can, by all means necessary. There are no superficial tips, waypoints, built-in tutorials or help given to you. Every decision matters – with no save games, and no extra lives, every mistake can be lethal. If you fail, you lose everything and start over…