Plants vs. Zombies™ Garden Warfare 2: Deluxe Edition

Plants vs. Zombies™ Garden Warfare 2: Deluxe Edition

Fair · Multiplayer · 2022

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The verdict

WAIT.

Winter Sale 2026 Dec 17
cut in 8 of 8 sales

Fair today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 90% in the Winter Sale 2025.

Today

$29.99Fair

Typical seasonal cut

$4.4985% off

Cost per hour
$3.57/hr
ReviewsA
90% of 51,315
Critics
82 players 8 higher
Genre rank
Top 7% Multiplayer

Holding it back: Monetization, DRM

Watch this gameOne alert at $4.49 or less.

Time and effort

Typical playtime
8.4h
To 100%
120.8h 14.4x the story
Achievements
63

Price and sales

Sales
39 on record
Typical cut
75% off
Steam low
$2.99 July 2024
Sale every
42d last October 2026
Lowest now on Steamall-time low $2.99 on IsThereAnyDeal

Players and genre

Online
749 now
Recent reviews
93% 30 days
Cheaper than
3% of its genre
Better reviewed
96% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

72% start to <1% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

A game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

Across all 39 discounts in the 4 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.

Against its own genre its score lands in the top 7 percent. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Military Conflict: Vietnam ($14.99, scores 68) beats it on value, while it beats Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville™ ($29.99, scores 26).

More about Plants vs. Zombies™ Garden Warfare 2: Deluxe Edition

Critics scored it 82. Players sit 8 points higher at 90 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.

Of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 17 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2026 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 62 percent of the 4,202 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it. It carries the aggressive kind of in-app purchases, and the score already docks it for that. The sticker price is where the spending starts.

HowLongToBeat players log 8.4 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 121, 14 times as much.

Buy now or wait

Buy now or wait

Last discount ended 31 days ago.

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
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach1.5M+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
Holding it back
MonetizationCurrency, Cosmetic, Free-to-grind, Infinite spend, Loot box, Time-limited, Unlock
Loot boxes / pay-to-win drag the score down
DRMEA account needed
Needs a second account on top of Steam, a small friction discount
For context
Refunds17 of 799 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 purchasesCurrency, Cosmetic, Free-to-grind, Infinite spend, Loot box, Time-limited, UnlockPCGamingWiki

What players say

downloaded this game expecting a chill little game about plants and zombies 5 minutes later i'm getting chased by a giant corn with a gun a sunflower is healing me while a zombie is flying through the sky i have absolutely no idea what is happening and somehow i'm having the time of my life 10/10 this is not a garden anymore, this is a war zone
supermanwithnograsstouchedRecommendedafter 1.6h31 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews
This is a great game even if it isn't in it's prime anymore. While I wouldn't recommend buying the game full price, it's 100% worth it for 12 dollars or less!
XelleityRecommendedafter 30h8 found this helpfulRead on Steam
Great game i have over 1000 hours on console and just bought it again on pc just to mod it and it made the already great experience of playing this game 10x better. I just wish this game still had the large player base it used to have truly a great game
LupatRecommendedafter 3.4h5 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

About the game

Ready the Peashooters and prepare for the craziest, funniest shooter in the universe: Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, Radeon HD 7730 or better, GeForce GT 640 or better, 40 GB of storage. Windows only.

Cite this score

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Plants vs. Zombies™ Garden Warfare 2: Deluxe Edition scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1922560/plants-vs-zombies-garden-warfare-2-deluxe-edition
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Nov 8, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+8
Critics82
Players90
Metacritic critics · 51,315 Steam player reviews

Details

DeveloperPopCap
PublisherElectronic Arts
GenreMultiplayer
Released2022
Players1.5Mowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements63