Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted
Released: 10/23/2025
Score Breakdown
76.6
Critic Average
16 reviews
63
Steam User Score
5,659 reviews
64
Metacritic User Score
27 reviews
Disparity Breakdown
77 vs 63
77 vs 64
Average of both sources
Review Disparities
Each point represents a critic review. Hover for details. Positive = critic higher than users. Negative = critic lower.
11/12/2025
Launch Window“Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted is a good time, just not a great remake. It captures the heart of the original perfectly, but doesn’t do enough to justify itself as the “ultimate edition.” If you’ve never played Plants vs. Zombies before, this is absolutely worth jumping into. For returning players, though, it’s more of a comfortable rerun than a revitalized revival.”
70
70/100
10/28/2025
Launch Window“Plants vs Zombies Replanted, from developer PopCap and publisher Electronic Arts, is still fun as hell to run through, and doubly so with co-op, mini-games, puzzles, and a new game+ built into it. It’s the complete package. My biggest issue is price point, as the main game from 2009 is a hard sell for me at $20.”
75
75/100
10/28/2025
Launch Window“When it first launched, in 2009, Plants vs. Zombies became a permanent fixture in my household, as everyone got hooked on the simple tower-defence ga...”
75
75/100
10/24/2025
Launch Window“Plants Vs. Zombies: Replanted adds just a few bells and whistles to the classic strategy game, but it's still just as fun as ever.”
70
70/100
10/24/2025
Launch Window“Remember when you first pitted plants and zombies against each other in the garden? Well, Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted is exactly that same game, with the expected and obvious graphical improvements of a remaster, and a few minor quality-of-life updates that do little to make the game anything more than a reheated version of something that was always amazing.”
70
70/100
10/23/2025
Launch Window“Plants Vs. Zombies Replanted is a faithful recreation of the original game that brings every bit of its charm and fun gameplay loop to modern platforms. It's as entertaining, unique, and quirky as it was back in the day, and is definitely worth diving back into if you loved the original release. If you haven't, this one's a treat!”
80
80/100
10/23/2025
Launch Window“At its core, Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted is the same game you fell in love with 16 years ago.”
75
75/100
10/22/2025
Early Review“Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted isn't breaking the mould in gameplay options, and it isn't flawless, but I have still been glued to my controller since I got it.”
80
80/100
10/22/2025
Early Review“Gardens once again become the ideal battlefield for the zombie apocalypse.”
80
80/100
10/22/2025
Early Review“Plants vs Zombies Replanted is the same game you know and love, albeit with a shiny new veneer. Some games don't get old, and providing you're in the mood for something laid-back and casual, protecting your garden from zeds is as much fun as it's ever been.”
80
80/100
10/22/2025
Early Review“Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted's attempt to remaster the original comes with questionable choices, but it's still a good way to get re-acquainted with (or introduced to) one of the quirkiest puzzle-strategy games of the 2000s.”
70
70/100
10/22/2025
Early Review“PopCap has brought together the defining elements of each port for the definitive Plants vs. Zombies experience. But it's hard to look past the discredit that Replanted does to the talented devs who brought us this game nearly two decades ago, and the many cut corners.”
80
80/100
10/22/2025
Early Review“You can play with a controller, use the touch-screen in handheld mode, or use a Joy-Con 2 as a mouse. And it looks and runs great, making the Switch 2 version, arguably, the definitive version of the game.”
80
80/100
10/22/2025
Early Review“Including all previous content plus new ways to play, Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted emerges as the best version of an already near-perfect game.”
90
90/100
10/22/2025
Early Review“The original Plants vs. Zombies that started it all is back, but this remaster could use a few more tweaks before it's ready for primetime.”
70
70/100
10/22/2025
Early Review“PopCap and EA have managed to remaster a absolute classic. Plants Vs Zombies: Replanted is nothing if a brilliant oove letter to a game that could see a resurgence of the franchise or maybe some other classics that EA have twiddling its thumbs while sitting the vault.”
80
80/100
