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Plants vs. Zombies™ Replanted

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The beloved classic Plants vs. Zombies™ returns in its best form ever. Play the original game with upgraded visuals, extra game modes, and new features. Play solo or with a friend in co-op or versus modes! 

Please note that the accessibility information included here is based on the US, English version of the game for consoles, unless specified otherwise. For more information about the game, patch notes, and news, visit the official website.

Noteworthy Features:

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Visual

Camera comfort

  • The game offers a toggle in the settings and pause menu to disable all screen shake encountered on certain scenarios, like when using a cherry bomb or playing the bowling minigame. By design, the fixed 2D perspective of the game does not feature any other camera effects that could induce discomfort, such as chromatic aberration, or motion blur.
 Game settings menu with options for music, sound effects, cursor speed, vibration, screenshake, and high contrast. Buttons: Restart Level, Main Menu, Back to Game. Plants vs. Zombies game scene: Lawn with various plants like sunflowers and pea shooters defending against two approaching zombies. House and fence in background. Plants vs. Zombies game: A nighttime level with various plants (peashooters, sunflowers) defending against approaching zombies. Sun icons and game menu are visible.

High-contrast mode

  • The game features a high-contrast mode toggle in the settings and pause menu, that reduces saturation of the game’s background and highlights the in-game assets with different color shaders to help clearly identify them for users with low vision.

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Audio

Sound Settings 

  • Music and Sound effects sliders can be separately customized or muted.
 Game settings menu with options for music, sound FX, cursor speed, vibration, screenshake, high contrast, and half speed. Adventure and other modes on a stone menu.

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Controls

 A daytime Plants vs. Zombies lawn with one sunflower planted in the middle. The player has 75 sun and six plant cards available at the top, including Peashooter, Sunflower, Cherry Bomb, Potato Mine, and Snow Pea. No zombies are visible yet, indicating the start of a level. Early daytime level of Plants vs. Zombies. A basic setup with two Peashooters and one Sunflower is shown defending against zombies walking in from the right. The player has 50 sun and several plant cards available at the top bar.

Supported input methods

  • Mouse and keyboard, as well as controllers are supported on PC (the console version of the game only supports controller input).
  • The cursor speed can be reduced or increased in the settings menu for both controller and mouse controls.
  • Switch 2 users can benefit from the mouse mode of the Joy Con 2 controllers to interact with the game as a mouse would.

Input challenges

  • The game does not require any analog input to be played. It can be controlled entirely with the D-pad and the controller’s buttons.
  • The game does not feature button mashing interaction, simultaneous button presses or quick-time events at any point.
 A nighttime Vasebreaker mini-game from Plants vs. Zombies. The player has broken a few vases revealing a zombie and some plants, including a Wall-nut and a Peashooter. Many unbroken vases remain arranged in rows on the lawn. Another I, Zombie mini-game scene from Plants vs. Zombies. The player controls zombies attacking a defensive layout with Sunflowers, Peashooters, and Wall-nuts. A buckethead zombie advances through the middle row, while the player has 25 sun remaining.

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Gameplay

 A daytime lawn in Plants vs. Zombies featuring advanced defenses. Rows of sunflowers, kernel-pults, pumpkins, and double Peashooters are protecting against various zombies, including pole vaulters and coneheads. The player has 400 sun and a total of $8,980. A busy daytime lawn in Plants vs. Zombies with various plants including Sunflowers, Peashooters, Cacti, Chompers, and Starfruit. Zombies with cone and bucket helmets are approaching from the right. The player has 100 sun, and several pumpkin shells protect plants in the middle rows.

Gameplay Affordances

  • The game can be paused at any moment during gameplay.
  • New to this version, the game features a gameplay speed button that can make the gameplay go faster, up to 2.5x the speed.
  • For the players who need the game speed to be decreased instead, the game also offers a “half-speed” toggle setting that changes the speed presets cycle between 0.5x, 0.8x, 1.0x and 1.3x. Please note that this setting is only present in the main menu settings, and cannot be enabled in the in-game pause menu.