-Explore - Huge, rich environments, with unique biomes and worlds up to 100 square kilometers in size.
-Craft - Handcraft and repair weapons, clothes, armor, tools, vehicles, with hundreds of recipes and schematics.
-Build – Design your fort with traps, electricity, auto turrets, and gadgets to survive in a fully destructible and moldable world.
-Cooperate or Compete – Work together to build settlements or against each other in a wasteland where zombies and outlaws rule the land.
-Create – Unleash your creativity with over 800 in-game items, 1,300 building blocks and a painting system that offers infinite possibilities.
-Improve – Increase skills with a multitude of perks and attributes. Gain additional skills by reading over 100 books in the only real survival RPG.
-Choose – Play the campaign or randomly-generated worlds with cities, towns, lakes, mountains, valleys, roads, caves and over 700 locations.
-Combat – Encounter nearly 60 unique zombie archetypes with unique behaviors progressing in difficulty to provide an infinite challenge.
-Survive – Experience hardcore survival mechanics with nearly 50 buffs, boosts and ailments that can both challenge and aid your survival.
-Destroy – Buildings and terrain formations can collapse from structural damage or poor building design with real structural stability.
-Loot – Scavenge the best weapons, tools, and armor with 6 quality ranges providing thousands of permutations and a multitude of mods.
-Quest – Meet Trader NPCs who buy and sell goods and offer quests. Enjoy many unique quest types supported by over 700 unique locations.
-Customize – Create your own character and customize your look with a huge selection of clothing and armor you can craft or loot in the world.
-Drive – Scavenge for parts, learn recipes, craft and customize bicycles, minibikes, motorcycles, 4x4s or gyrocopters and ride with friends.
-Farm or Hunt – Plant gardens for sustainable resources or head out to the wilderness and hunt over a dozen unique animals.