Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted

Whether you’re new to the series or returning after a long hiatus, Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted is a game that’s going to suck you in with its hypnotic soundtrack and addictive action.

We now have a remake of one of my favourite casual games of all time and this is one delectable treat for any strategy game fan.

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!

Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted is the best way to play this seminal tower defense in 2025, but with so many cut corners, it leaves us wanting more.

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.

Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted is a faithful, nostalgic port that succeeds on the strength of its core cult classic gameplay and the excellent addition of local multiplayer and co-op support.

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.

If you've never played Plants vs. Zombies before, think of it like a cartoonish tower defense with a ton of style and charm. You play as the plants, and with the help of sunflowers (and other resource-generating plants later on), you'll pick up sun, which is used as a currency to create offensive and defensive plants. The team at PopCap managed to craft a wonderful, interactive onboarding experience, allowing even complete newcomers to the genre to pick it up in minutes.

There are far too many games from PopCap that I’ve played with my mother (shoutout to Bookworm and Bejeweled), but where both of our interests really aligned

Ya’ll, PopCap is dead and they’re not coming back. The maker of beloved puzzle games was absorbed by EA a while ago, and the franchises that we played to avoid doing work back in high school and college now no longer exist. It’s why we have things like Bejeweled Stars and why Bookworm hasn’t been heard from since Obama took office. But the core franchise, Plants vs. Zombies, still gets acclaim and occasional pushes to make it a thing again. Garden Warfare was decent, that weird mobile...

Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted is a remaster of the original Plants vs. Zombies, released in 2009, a game that has been ported to more platforms than Skyrim. How does Replanted bring an aging tower defense into the modern age?

It’s been nearly two decades since the cult classic game Plants vs. Zombies was first released, and even its multiple sequels and spin-offs have yet to capture the magic that was the original. Other than Minecraft and Club Penguin, my nine-year-old self had a Windows laptop with Plants vs. Zombies i