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Plants vs. Zombies™ Garden Warfare 2: Deluxe Edition cover art

Plants vs. Zombies™ Garden Warfare 2: Deluxe Edition

PopCap · Electronic Arts · 2022-05-16

SteamEpic Games StoreMicrosoft StoreGame Pass

ActionCasualStrategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: May 16, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Feb 23, 2016 (Xbox One), Feb 23, 2016 (PlayStation 4)

Ready the Peashooters and prepare for the craziest, funniest shooter in the universe: Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2.

Plants vs. Zombies™ Garden Warfare 2: Deluxe Edition is a 2022 Action, Casual, and Strategy game priced at $29.99, with an estimated 1,000,000 .. 2,000,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (90% of 50496 reviews).

541
playing now
90%
positive of 51k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
1,000,000–2,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
silver
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$29.99
steam price (US)

541 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 11:00 UTC (census sample)

Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2 is a 2016 third-person shooter video game developed by PopCap Games and published by Electronic Arts. It was released for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One. It is the sequel to Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare and the fourth game in the Plants vs. Zombies franchise. The game was released in February 2016. A successor, Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville, was released in October 2019.

Health check

Healthy
  • · 541 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 10,989 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1,374/week).
  • · Review velocity up 100% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 2% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-27

Estimated sales: 1.0M–2.3M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 51,060 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$0.00

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.99 at EA Store (2024-07-23)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $29.99 · on sale 21 of 35 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3.1k3.1k20222026Week of 2022-05-01: 2,674 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 343 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 858 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 93 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 597 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 75 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 553 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 60 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 383 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 45 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 294 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 30 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 959 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 61 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 550 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 53 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 715 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 100 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 455 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 65 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 408 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 68 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 707 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 112 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 645 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 128 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 472 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 53 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 774 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 71 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 848 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 103 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 777 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 114 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 506 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 512 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 56 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 1,258 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 176 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 877 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 78 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 688 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 57 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 823 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 121 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 511 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 53 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 600 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 77 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 430 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 56 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1,657 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 322 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 1,528 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 154 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 622 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 67 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 448 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 571 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 54 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1,233 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 129 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 893 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 72 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 909 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 72 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 987 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 69 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 580 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 709 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 77 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 573 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 51 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 705 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 63 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 831 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 65 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 552 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 505 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 59 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 591 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 52 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 3,124 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 363 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 2,024 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 221 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 809 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 120 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1,105 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 166 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 600 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 185 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 598 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 72 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 665 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 120 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 714 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 103 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 622 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 82 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1.5k4462026-09-15 12:00 — 615 players2026-09-16 20:00 — 877 players2026-09-18 03:00 — 928 players2026-09-19 11:00 — 825 players2026-09-20 18:00 — 1,526 players2026-09-22 02:00 — 1,123 players2026-09-23 10:00 — 446 players2026-09-24 17:00 — 829 players2026-09-26 01:00 — 1,162 players2026-09-27 08:00 — 902 players2026-09-28 16:00 — 911 players2026-09-29 23:00 — 890 players2026-10-01 07:00 — 661 players2026-10-02 14:00 — 1,045 players2026-10-03 22:00 — 1,327 players2026-10-05 06:00 — 849 players2026-10-06 13:00 — 1,007 players2026-10-07 21:00 — 1,023 players2026-10-09 04:00 — 937 players2026-10-10 12:00 — 1,027 players2026-10-11 20:00 — 1,345 players2026-10-13 03:00 — 912 players2026-10-14 11:00 — 541 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
4.2k336May 2022Aug 2026May 2022 — avg 3,152 · peak 4,851Jul 2022 — avg 598 · peak 1,181Sep 2022 — avg 417 · peak 1,025Nov 2022 — avg 352 · peak 743Jan 2023 — avg 699 · peak 1,408Mar 2023 — avg 378 · peak 963May 2023 — avg 680 · peak 1,858Jul 2023 — avg 766 · peak 1,398Sep 2023 — avg 824 · peak 2,140Nov 2023 — avg 542 · peak 1,222Jan 2024 — avg 1,104 · peak 2,763Mar 2024 — avg 863 · peak 1,836May 2024 — avg 668 · peak 1,341Jul 2024 — avg 1,866 · peak 9,420Sep 2024 — avg 885 · peak 1,517Nov 2024 — avg 778 · peak 1,794Jan 2025 — avg 1,208 · peak 2,745Mar 2025 — avg 1,151 · peak 2,588May 2025 — avg 942 · peak 1,844Jul 2025 — avg 917 · peak 1,418Sep 2025 — avg 780 · peak 1,488Nov 2025 — avg 768 · peak 1,584Jan 2026 — avg 2,965 · peak 8,395Mar 2026 — avg 1,576 · peak 3,357May 2026 — avg 861 · peak 1,516Jul 2026 — avg 931 · peak 1,429Aug 2026 — avg 1,066 · peak 1,630
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

PositiveNegative
42422026-09-222026-10-132026-09-22: 19 new positive2026-09-23: 13 new positive2026-09-24: 20 new positive2026-09-24: 2 new negative2026-09-25: 15 new positive2026-09-25: 3 new negative2026-09-26: 19 new positive2026-09-26: 2 new negative2026-09-27: 42 new positive2026-09-27: 3 new negative2026-09-28: 19 new positive2026-09-29: 19 new positive2026-09-29: 3 new negative2026-09-30: 8 new positive2026-09-30: 1 new negative2026-10-03: 13 new positive2026-10-03: 2 new negative2026-10-04: 27 new positive2026-10-04: 1 new negative2026-10-05: 15 new positive2026-10-05: 1 new negative2026-10-06: 13 new positive2026-10-06: 2 new negative2026-10-08: 13 new positive2026-10-09: 24 new positive2026-10-09: 2 new negative2026-10-11: 17 new positive2026-10-11: 3 new negative2026-10-12: 30 new positive2026-10-12: 4 new negative2026-10-13: 5 new positive2026-10-13: 1 new negative
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$69.99$0.002015-06-162026-10-082015-06-16 — best price $69.992016-07-14 — best price $34.992016-11-29 — best price $49.992017-04-18 — best price $49.992017-11-20 — best price $14.992018-01-30 — best price $29.992018-05-29 — best price $29.992018-11-01 — best price $29.992019-01-29 — best price $29.992019-07-25 — best price $29.992020-08-18 — best price $29.992020-11-20 — best price $9.992021-07-22 — best price $9.992021-11-19 — best price $7.492022-02-22 — best price $7.492022-05-24 — best price $29.992022-08-11 — best price $29.992022-11-01 — best price $29.992023-01-05 — best price $29.992023-03-23 — best price $29.992023-06-29 — best price $5.992023-10-26 — best price $5.992024-01-04 — best price $29.992024-03-28 — best price $29.992024-05-30 — best price $29.992024-08-19 — best price $29.992024-11-11 — best price $29.992025-01-02 — best price $29.992025-04-10 — best price $8.992025-07-10 — best price $29.992025-09-29 — best price $8.992025-12-18 — best price $2.992026-02-09 — best price $8.992026-03-26 — best price $29.992026-07-02 — best price $29.992026-08-27 — best price $0.002026-10-08 — best price $0.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

141672026-05-30 — 92 pageviews2026-06-03 — 95 pageviews2026-06-07 — 109 pageviews2026-06-11 — 85 pageviews2026-06-15 — 87 pageviews2026-06-19 — 85 pageviews2026-06-23 — 96 pageviews2026-06-27 — 81 pageviews2026-07-01 — 100 pageviews2026-07-05 — 108 pageviews2026-07-09 — 74 pageviews2026-07-13 — 83 pageviews2026-07-17 — 100 pageviews2026-07-21 — 94 pageviews2026-07-25 — 70 pageviews2026-07-29 — 67 pageviews2026-08-02 — 73 pageviews2026-08-06 — 105 pageviews2026-08-10 — 79 pageviews2026-08-14 — 98 pageviews2026-08-18 — 104 pageviews2026-08-22 — 81 pageviews2026-08-26 — 92 pageviews2026-08-30 — 98 pageviews2026-09-03 — 80 pageviews2026-09-07 — 124 pageviews2026-09-11 — 74 pageviews2026-09-15 — 73 pageviews2026-09-19 — 131 pageviews2026-09-23 — 88 pageviews2026-09-27 — 99 pageviews2026-10-01 — 69 pageviews2026-10-05 — 102 pageviews2026-10-08 — 71 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
71.7%
earned "Hero to Zero"
10.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPCo-opOnline Co-opSteam AchievementsIn-App Purchases

8 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Traditional Chinese

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

PvPCuteFunnyActionCasualShooterZombiesColorfulControllerTeam-Based

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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