Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville™

Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville™

Skip · Shooter · 2020

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The verdict

SKIP IT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

It scores 26, under the fair line, at $29.99.

Cost per hour▼
$6.00/hr
Reviews▼
71% of 18,876
Critics
77 players 6 lower
Genre rank
Top 67% Shooter

Holding it back: Cost per hour, DRM

Why
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Time and effort

Main story
5h
To 100%
165h 33.0x the story
Achievements
50

Price and sales

Sales
53 on record
Typical cut
75% off
Steam low
$2.99 July 2024
Sale every
44d last October 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $1.00 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
89 now
Recent reviews
78% 30 days
Cheaper than
7% of its genre
Better reviewed
31% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

31% start to 2% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

This site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

53 discounts in the 6 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 70 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Plants vs. Zombies™ Garden Warfare 2: Deluxe Edition ($29.99, scores 66) beats it on value, while it beats Umbrella Corps ($19.99, scores 0).

More about Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville™

This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 20 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2025 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,424 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 413 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 36 percent of the 2,937 reviews written there were positive, against 71 percent overall, and those are 19 percent of everything written about it. It sells extras on top of the sticker price (currency); the score docks it lightly for that.

5 hours to finish it, 165 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 33 times the campaign.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Replayability~30h to replay
Co-op and replay time. The value score counts hours well past the 5h main story
Holding it back
Cost per hour$6.00/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
MonetizationCurrency
In-game spending, a moderate drag
DRMEA account needed
Needs a second account on top of Steam, a small friction discount
For context
Refunds20 of 800 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score
In-app purchasesCurrencyPCGamingWiki

What players say

honestly underrated and overhated, but there are many problems like the removal of sticker shop and etc. you should still get it though
hunterkurtykaRecommendedafter 16h9 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
no one plays this anymore, but I 100% this on my ninteno switch. I loved this game had around 50-100 hours on this game. I loved it, but I don't know why I bought it again. Looks good and stuff but no one plays this.
Kry2ColdzRecommendedafter 2.4hOct 2026Read on Steam
the graphic is marvelous. the variants of plants and zombies astonishing. but the experience gameplay is actually confusing. you start the game without knowing where to click, where to go, and what should you do. when you finally understand, the game lost its charm and no quest focus.
winardixNot recommendedafter 6.0hSep 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

About the game

Kick some grass in Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville, the wackiest shooter yet!
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, AMD: Radeon HD 7730 or Equivalent/ NVIDIA: GeForce GT 640 or Equivalent, 15 GB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

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Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville™ scores 26/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1262240/plants-vs-zombies-battle-for-neighborville
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Reviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 8, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players-6
Critics77
Players71
Metacritic critics · 18,876 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperPopCap
PublisherElectronic Arts
GenreShooter
Released2020
Players1.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements50