Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
BANGER · Strategy · 2009
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $4.99.
- Cost per hourS
- $0.61/hr
- ReviewsS
- 98% of 157,233
- Critics
- 87 players 11 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Strategy
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 8.2h
- To 100%
- 42.5h 5.2x the story
- Achievements
- 21
Price and sales
- Sales
- 55 on record
- Typical cut
- 60% off
- Steam low
- $0.99 October 2016
- Sale every
- 46d last July 2024
Players and genre
- Online
- 2,111 now
- Recent reviews
- 96% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 59% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 99% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
82% start to 9% rarestThis 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
Across all 55 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 60 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 119 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is the best reviewed of its genre. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Bloons TD 6 ($13.99, scores 87) and Bejeweled® 3 ($4.99, scores 96).
On this data it would still be a BANGER at $12.28.
More about Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
87 from critics against 98 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 14 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written October 2024 to October 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,604 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,237 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 93 percent of the 11,413 reviews written there were positive, against 98 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 8.2 hours; clearing it takes 43, which is 5.2 times the campaign.
157,233 reviews stand behind that percentage.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 831 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
What players say
This game is better than butter on a poptart. in all seriousness, I believe this is the single best mobile game ever produced. Along with that it has some of the best music in gaming, arguably on the same level of greatness as c418's music.
2 more reviews
One of the best tower defence games ever the levels are fun and challenging the music is AMAZING the side game modes are cool and NO MICROTRANSACTIONS. A game you can just pick up and play whenever you want (On Mobile) and Defo worth the penny's in your wallet 10/10 oh and also i'm in it pretty cool
Plants vs. Zombies.. where does one begin? This game has held the hearts of millions throughout the many years it has existed. Plants vs. Zombies is monumental to gaming history and the lineage of tower defense style games. This is a game that many have played and many more will play later on, like Peggle. Everyone likes Peggle. Even if you don't like Peggle, you like Peggle. Just like Plants vs. Zombies. PVZ has...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 128MB of video memory, 16-bit or 32-bit color quality. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Cite this score
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition scores 97/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3590/plants-vs-zombies-goty-editionReviews 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 4, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.