Buy Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition

One of the great games of all time and a testimony to Popcap at their best, before their acquisition by EA. This game is many things to many people: casual time-waster, fount of slightly twisted humor, excellent strategy game. If you have never played it, it is worth much more than it costs here on Steam. I've been playing it since it first launched, and I am sure I'll be playing it ten years from now.

A joy and a pleasure.

*Got some sunlight
*Planted a pea shooter
*Proceeded to make it fire at zombies
*Planted 20 more
*Walked inside house
*Sat on computer to play some Plants vs Zombies
10/10 would kill zombies again

I didn't intend to cover this game originally, but then I figured it was certainly a big enough name to justify, and also a good enough game to talk about. Before Plants VS Zombies was following in the footsteps of Team Fortress 2 and interrupting an indie developer with mood-destroying music at every E3, it started here, as a simple tower defense. This is a kind that's a bit less common on Steam, where you're defending rows rather than winding path. As the title implies, you do this using militaristic plants to combat a bunch of eccentric zombies.

Compared to a lot of the games I've talked about, Plants VS Zombies is a pretty casual one. Experience in many of the above titles would make the campaign fairly easy to get through, and even when I played it years ago without any TD experience I don't remember having much trouble. Of course, not every game needs to be hard, far from it, and there's something relaxing about watching your garden take on all comers. Both your plants and the zombies are also both appealing enough to look at without trying too hard, and there's a good amount of enemy variety.

You start with a simple Peashooter for damage and a Sunflower for harvesting resources (you do need to manually click on them like Beware Earth, but that's the only thing like it in the game and it's not generally very hectic), and across the course of the campaign get access to forty-seven others that all have some different use, depending on what zombies you're up against or the level. The game mixes things up often enough to keep things from getting too repetitive, and aside from the normal sunny day you'll also have to defend at night, where you get less resources, or at the backyard pool, where you have to build terrain for most of your plants to stand on. You'll also get levels within those that operate on different rules, such as using the Wallnut to bowl down zombies or having to pick your defenses from a sort of conveyor belt.

Aside from the campaign there are a bunch of minigames and alternate modes you can unlock, including survival and a role reversal where you pick zombies to go after the plants' defenses. Quite a lot considering the game's only five dollars, the cheapest of any game mentioned so far. If you're looking for a more low-key entry into tower defenses, it would be a good one to pick up, as long as you remember most other ones aren't exactly like this. Even if you're not new to them though, if you somehow haven't played this I can't think of any reason to dissuade you.

Easily one of the best tower defense game out there.

It might seem easy at first but don't let that fools you..

Getting all the achievments takes time and skills, you will get your money worth for sure. Even after unlocking everything (which takes ALOTs of time), its always fun to come back and kill a few zombies ;)

I love killing Vegetarians.

Because these zombies never touched my house for once.

Even this or that, quality game, part of my childhood, worth buying again.

This game is an really good strategy experience, but kinda restricted as you can develop an strategy and just use the same one through the entire game.
That said, it's definitely worth the money! It's really cute, well made and has an good story.

I beat it 5+ times already when i was a little kid. Now i have the chance to beat it alot more

Excellent casual game.

童年回忆

Fun little game to play for a few hours. Buy when on sale.