All three games deal with survival, and each one delivers a different kind of experience

Jan 27, 2014 07:58 GMT  ·  By

Dean Hall, creator of the wildly popular first-person survival game DayZ, has recently stated that he doesn't see the other two popular zombie survival games, Rust and Project Zomboid, as competition.

DayZ, Project Zomboid and Rust are all currently featured on Valve's Steam Early Access program, and they all deal with the same topic: a grisly and cruel struggle for survival, set in a post-apocalyptic world riddled with zombies.

During a recent DayZ AMA on Reddit, Hall mentioned that he didn't feel threatened by the other two competitors, he felt he just needed to focus on making a great game and providing an authentic survival experience.

"I don't see Rust, PZ, as competitors. I also think DayZ has already won anything it needed too. Now we just need to make it a good game. I think DayZ needs to focus on authentic survival, camping, hunting, etc... and then it will be great," Hall posted on the Reddit thread.

DayZ has already sold more than a million units since its Early Access launch in December, in spite of developer Bohemia Interactive's warnings regarding the game's very early development stage.