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Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville™

PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), Xbox One, Nintendo Switch • 2020

Should you play it?

Kick some grass in Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville, the wackiest shooter yet!

What works

  • Fun and accessible gameplay
  • Variety of characters and customization
  • Engaging single-player and multiplayer modes
  • Colorful and charming art style
  • Good value on sale

Things to keep in mind

  • Declining player base and dead multiplayer lobbies
  • Some balance and netcode issues
  • Grindy progression and premium currency
  • Lack of updates and abandoned development
  • Performance issues on lower-end hardware

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Plants vs. Zombies™ Garden Warfare 2: Deluxe Edition

  • Castle Crashers®

  • Palworld

  • Borderlands 2

  • DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE

  • HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed

More intimate

Games that feels like Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville™ but with more focus on close relationships

  • POPUCOM

  • SUPERVIVE

  • Zombie Vikings

  • MARVEL Cosmic Invasion

  • Once Human

  • Temtem

Less competitive

Games that feels like Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville™ but with less competition against others

  • SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom - Rehydrated

  • Bang-On Balls: Chronicles

  • SWAPMEAT

  • Mycopunk

  • LORT

  • DRAGON QUEST HEROES™ II

Less story-driven

Games that feels like Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville™ but with less narrative immersion

  • Topple Tactics

  • Shotgun Farmers

  • Block N Load

  • Witch It

  • Sherwood Extreme

  • Party Animals

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From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

Similarity map

How to compare these games

Compare nearby games

Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville™. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville™. These titles are not in What to play next.

Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville™: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Story, Fantasy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Domination.

Last update: 21/08/2026