Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition ▶ Trailer
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StrategyTower DefenseZombiesSingleplayerCasualClassic

Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition

Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.

Developer
PopCap Games, Inc.
Publisher
PopCap Games, Inc., Electronic Arts
Franchise
EA Play
Release date
May 5, 2009
Store page updated
Apr 28, 2026
Price
$4.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

93.7/ 100

Based on 365 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 🤩 Overwhelmingly Positive 98% of 971
All time 🤩 Overwhelmingly Positive 98% of 155,978
“masterpiece that you can 100%, real ones play this”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+1.87
Difficulty +1.37

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Story & World
+3.19
World +3.79
“nostalgic, emotionally resonant childhood memories” (16)
我是2008年出生的，小时候看家人在一个比我岁数还大的台式机上玩游戏，我爸玩红警和魔兽，我妈玩植物大战僵尸。他们在那里玩，我就蹲在一旁看。我看着我妈一关关过，一直到最后一关僵王博士，当时感觉我妈真的很厉害。那时候我很害怕僵尸进入房子时的画面和那个“NO"的声音，每次都会跑开躲得远远的。天真的以为泳池无尽种了满屏的机枪射手和猫尾草就可以挂机一直刷下去。 但是逐渐的，我发现自从我上了初中，家人打游戏的时候越来越少。 steam是我初三时下载的，一直都没想过pvz会出现在这里。直到高二我想搜另一款童年一直想玩的游戏（花园战争）时，才发现这款游戏。当时虽然没打折，但是我直接买了，就算是为童年补票了。借着高二到高三的那个暑假，我再次通关了这款游戏。 时间一转眼来到了高考后，我拥有了一台属于自己的电脑。有一天闲来无事把pvz下了回来，正玩着，我妈进来看说她也想玩。在我的印象中，我妈玩这个游戏是属于高手的级别，但是我发现她的操作和我记忆中的差了很多。在我的印象中，她对战僵王时总是轻轻松松的，但是这次却我却能明显的察觉到她的慌乱，有时候还会把火爆辣椒放错行。她的操作变得笨拙起来。我想过很多种原因，可能是刚拿到鼠标不习惯，可能是太久没玩了。但是都有一个不可避免的原因——我妈也逐渐变老了 小时候，一次次的尝试，认真的过每一关。直到我打通了冒险模式，我又开始玩其他小游戏。现在，我可以轻轻松松的打过每一关

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Content Volume
+2.82
Volume +2.90

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Visuals & Sound
+3.82
Audio +4.34
“music by Laura Shigihara is spectacular” (45)
Estamos ante uno de los mejores clásicos dentro del género de defensa de torres y de juegos de zombies. Es un producto increíblemente divertido y lleno de personalidad debido a sus carismáticos personajes, por sus niveles simples pero iconicos, por su variada cantidad de plantas, por su preciosa música (la compositora se llama Laura Shigihara y es una artista espectacular, les recomiendo su trabajo). Cuenta con muchísimo contenido, lo cual le brinda al juego bastante rejugabilidad y tiene múltiples desafíos que pueden poner a prueba la habilidad de aquellos jugadores más experimentados, debido

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Multiplayer
+3.12

Not enough data — only 4% of reviews mention this.

Community +3.50

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Fairness
+1.63
Monetization +0.93

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Tech & Ops
-0.12
Developer support -2.23
“devs may remove this version to force purchase of expensive buggy remaster” (10)

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Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update
70%80%90%100%
Oct 2010Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 956 reviews, peak 42/day
02550
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive.

Review languages

Languages of the 365 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English30%
  • Chinese21%
  • Spanish17%
  • Russian13%
  • Portuguese12%
  • Polish3%
  • Other5%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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