Plants vs. Zombies: Collide

Plants vs. Zombies: Collide (abbreviated as PvZC and occasionally referred to as Plants vs. Zombies: Collision) is a tower defense game released by PopCap Games. This game is a spinoff that is set after the events of Plants vs. Zombies 2 but before the events of Garden Warfare 2. It was soft launched on iOS and Android devices on September 16th 2025 in Australia and New Zealand and fully released on Mobile and PC, on November 20th 2025. On December 12th 2025, a HD version was released, exclusively on iPad. This time, the player battles new zombies and old plants through universes and locations to try and stabilize them.
== Plot ==
After the events of Plants vs. Zombies 2 where the player recieves a taco with a waffle from Dr. Zomboss after battling through time, zombies once again attack the Player’s house. The player learns that Dr. Zomboss had stolen Penny’s time travel thing-a-ma-bob and used it to restore and buff his Zombot from the first game, but he spills coffee on the control panel causing it to malfunction and blow up and rip a hole in time and space. Everything starts to destabilize. However Dave learns from Penny that the plants can now be fed Plant food according to their respective element to be buffed in various aspects. There are also the plant heroes to help them. Crazy Dave, Penny and the player go out to save Suburbia from reality collapsing. 
== Icons ==
File:Pvzcmobile.png|Mobile icon
File:PvzcPC.png|PC icon
File:PvzcHD.png|HD icon (iPad only)
== Description ==
The Zombies have returned! With them they bring a whole Multiverse of problems. Unlock powerful new plants and lead them with heroes! Upgrade your heroes and build your defence to take on this interuniversal zombie horde!
=== Unlock new Plants and Zombies! ===
With the whole multiverse caving in, there’s bound to be new friends and foes to be met. Each character with their own elements. Unlock plants like the Cactus-Water, or the Light-Bulb. Fight a brand new massive array of zombies like the Firefighter Zombie and the Mountain Climber Zombie and protect your brain from Zombie Hero minibosses. 
=== Grow your characters ===
Go to the sticker shop and unlock pieces for new plants for your defences. 
=== Stabilize the city ===
Battle Across countless crazy worlds, with new worlds being released every season! From your Suburbs, to the Pixel Playground and beyond. Over 80 new levels as well as even more levels coming your way. Challenge yourself with puzzles and Brain Buster. Beat daily challenges. Dr. Zomboss is  waiting for you at the end of every location. Ready your defenses for Dr. Zomboss is waiting for you at the end of every location. 
=== Defend and Attack you and your friend’s suburbs ===
Jump into Tower Defence and establish plant defenses to defend your town from other players’ zombie attacks. Train your zombies and train Zombies to raid other player’s towns for loot and xp. Unlock new zombies in the sticker Shop and train them in your graveyards. 
== Gameplay ==
Plants vs. Zombies: Collide is paid on Steam and tablet. However it is free to play for iOS but unlike those versions, contains ads and in-app purchasing of coins and gems. Plants and zombies now have 1-2 of the 7 elements associated with them. (Nature, Solar, Darkness, Earth, Fire, Water, Air). You can tell which element a plant or zombie is associated with by looking at the bottom left corner of their seed packet. When a plant defeats a zombie, that zombie will charge up the elemental upgrade(s) associated with it. Once the upgrade is fully charged, the player may level up one of the plants on the lawn that is associated with that element. 
=== Heroes ===
This game also adds heroes, a mechanic based off of the hero mechanic from Plants vs. Zombies: Endless Edition. They are variations of plants that function very similar to their normal counterparts. They can be moved anywhere on the screen by the player before having to recharge stamina. The player can only use one hero and it appears on the lawn at the start of ever level on the 5th column on lane 3. Once the hero is upgraded to a certain level, they can unlock new abilities that go off continuously, randomly, or as a Tacobility. Each hero can be levelled up with experience when being used in levels. Each time a plant levels up, the plant gains skill points which are represented by a blue lightning bolt icon and can be used to upgrade abilities and skill of that plant to increase the probability and effectiveness of their abilities. Some skills and abilities can only be unlocked once the plant is a certain level. 
=== Adventure Mode ===
Adventure Mode is a gamemode that can be selected in the main menu of the game. Once selected it will pan up into outer space where there is a world select screen with multiple pages. Each page having a world and its night variant. Players will start in Suburbia (which takes place in front of the player’s house) in the tutorial level. After the world (which is beaten after 12 levels) is beaten. The player can unlock other worlds after earning a certain amount of stars which can be earned through completing levels. 3 stars can be unlocked per level. After completing each world they unlock an endless zone. In endless zone, zombies drop can Lunar keys. After collecting a certain amount of lunar keys they can unlock the night variation of the world. In night worlds, players can unlock extra plants including mushrooms and can also unlock upgrades. 
=== Shop ===
The shop can be accessed from the main menu and contains several sections. Most items are purchased with coins.
The sticker shop contains sticker packs which can be purchased with coins. Sticker Packs may contain sprouts, tombs, extra sun, extra brains, extra elemental charges, extra tacobilities, extra pop smarts, extra lawnmowers, materials, lawn ornaments and character stickers of plants and zombies.
Rux sells rare items including legendary character stickers and entire epic characters as well as special lawn ornaments and occasionally heroes for less gems. Also sells the DLCs for the game.
Adventure is similar to Rux’s bazaar however it never changes (except for the plant of the week) it has different shelves and contains more basic items with the garden-variety shelf containing Tower Defence items such as sprouts, tombstones, fertiliser, energy cans, tacobilities, elemental charges, extra sun, extra lawnmowers etc. It also has heroes which can be unlocked with gems. Tower Defence containing decorations and lawns for tower defence as well as materials. The character of the week is where the player can unlock an entire plant or zombie or an epic character piece for a cost depending on rarities. (Uncommon: 20,000 coins, Rare: 40,000, Epic character piece, 50,000). 
Coins and gems can be traded for each other in the coins and gems section (1 gem costs 3,000 coins).
As of the 1.1 update packs and items can be gifted to friends. 
=== Tower Defence ===
Tower Defence is a strategic mode that can be accessed after beating Suburbia where the player can build a town and have different lawns that they defend. Plants are grown in Zen Gardens and can be placed onto lawns for a certain amount of sun. A maximum of 15 of the same plant can be kept in the player’s inventory at a time. Graveyards can be built to raise and train zombies to invade other towns. The growing/training process can be sped up using fertiliser or energy cans which can be bought from the store (fertiliser for plants and energy cans for the zombies). 
Each building produces coins for the player. The amount of coins can be increased with Marigolds planted on the lawn of the building and can be sped up with Gold Magnets. Buildings can be built using sun or elemental charges or materials collected from the store, defeated zombies or towns the player invaded. 
Zombie attacks happen randomly. Either from other players or randomly from the servers. When attacking a town, the player must choose a building to attack. The attacking player has a time limit of 5 minutes to succesfully overwhelm the defences and enter the house. If succeeded, the player will earn coins, gems, elemental charges and materials varying based on the type of lawn. 
=== Tasks ===
Tasks can be accessed on the main menu. They work exactly how the original travel log worked in pvz2. It included tasks such as unlocking a certain plant or world or defeating a certain amount of zombies. The player would be awarded points. Each point would lead up to the player unlocking a new rank which will reward the player with gems or coins. The ranks would be scored in Game Center, Google Play, Steam or Red Fox Community under “Collision Rank” There is also a weekly event which is similar to the pinata event where a level with a special challenge will be available to be completed for awards. 
== Game Information ==
=== Game modes ===
Adventure
Tower Defence
Brain Busters
Puzzle
Daily Challenge
Weekly Event
Zen Garden
=== Puzzle ===
iZombie
Vasebreaker
Last Stand 
Heavy Weapon (PC only, soft released) 
=== List of Sub-versions ===
* iOS/Android version
* PC version
* Console version (coming soon)
== Achievements ==
Like in the previous games, there are achievements. On iOS and Android, they can be accessed via the menu screen and on PC, they can be accessed via Steam. 
== Update History ==
==== 2024 ====
* November 2nd: Pop Cap announces they have a new team working on a new game.
==== 2025 ====
* February 15th: Pop Cap releases an image of various Plants and zombies from different games coming out of portals
* May 5th: Plants vs. Zombies: Collide is revealed at the first Plants vs. Zombies convention, PopCap-Frenzy 2025. Including early footage of gameplay and a trailer. 
* June 12th the release date is announced along with several transmissions featuring snipets of gameplay the first 4 locations releasing across the next few days
* July 4th: A pvz2 thymed event starts which showcases zombies from other games and Plants vs. Zombies: Collide.
* August 25th a comic is Published based off of the events of the game as well another transmission, this time showcasing the Tower Defence mode. 
* September 16th the game is Soft Launched on App Store and Google Play in a few select regions. The game is also able to be pre-ordered on Steam for $19.99 for access to the Deluxe Upgrade. 
* November 20th, the game is fully launched. Also available on PC via Steam for $11.99.
* December 12th, a HD version was released on iPad that includes cleaner graphics and UI, no ads and the Deluxe Upgrade.
==== 2026 ====
* January 10th a Console version is confirmed
* February 7th a trailer for the Xbox and PS5 versions is released featuring new 1.2 content such as new sticker shop plants, new unlockable zombies, a new VS mode exclusvie to Console and a Puzzle exclusive to PC and Console called Heavy Weapon
* February 28th Version 1.1.5 is released Soft releasing the first 3 Heavy Weapon puzzle levels to PC version for $2.99 and adding fixes to the Tower defence mode as well as improved multi-language support
== Areas ==
 			
Suburbia (PvZC) 			
Bloom & Doom Manufacturing Plant			
Sunflower Shores 			
Mount Brainer 			
== Plants ==
=== Returning Plants ===
* Peashooter
* Sunflower
* Cherry Bomb
* Wall-Nut
* Potato Mine
* Snow Pea
* Chomper
* Repeater (as upgrade)
* Puff-Shroom
* Sun-Shroom
* Fume-Shroom
* Grave Buster
* Scaredy-Shroom
* Lily Pad
* Squash
* Threepeater
* Tangle Kelp
* Jalapeño
* Spikeweed
* Torchwood
* Tall-Nut
* Sea-Shroom
* Plantern
* Cactus
* Blover
* Starfruit
* Magnet-Shroom
* Cabbage Pult
* Flower Pot (cameo)
* Kernel Pult
* Umbrella Leaf
* Marigold
* Melon-Pult
* Explode-o-nut
* Gatling Pea
* Twin Sunflower (upgrade only)
* Gloom-Shroom
* Gold Magnet
* Spikerock
* Winter Melon
* Imitater
* Fire Pea
* Chilly Pepper
* Bonk-Choy
* Snapdragon
* Power Lily
* Lightning Reed
* Banana Launcher
* Pepper Pult
* Rotobagga
* Spore Shroom
* Cold Snapdragon
* Shadow Shroom
* Buttercup
* Gaurd Shroom
* Smoosh-Shroom
* Bananasaurus 
* Zapdragon
* Garlic Drone
* Buttercup
=== New Plants ===
* Cactus Water
* Taco Chili
* Blastberry
* Light-Bulb
* Coconut Oil
* Springing Nettle
* Durian Pult
* Havocado
* Crocoli
* Planta Ray
* Tangled Roots
* Pumpkin Pult
* Glow Shroom
* Pult-Shroom
* Popcorn
* Caramel Corn
== Zombies ==
=== Returning Zombies ===
* Browncoat Zombie
* Flag Zombie
* Conehead Zombie
* Buckethead Zombie
* Newspaper Zombie
* Screendoor Zombie 
* All-Star
* Ducky Tube Zombie
* Snorkel Zombie
* Zomboni
* Dolphin Rider Zombie
* Zombie Bobsled Team
* Balloon Zombie
* Digger Zombie
* Bungee Zombie
* Gargantuar
* Imp
* Dr. Zomboss
* Tombstone Raiser
* Conga Leader Zombie
* Pianist Zombie
* Fisherman Zombie
* Weasel Hoarder Zombie
* Punk Zombie
* Brickhead Zombie
* Foot Soldier
* General Supremo 
* Sky Trooper
* Engineer
* Scientist
* Vampire Zombie
=== New Zombies ===
* Firefighter Zombie
* Sleepwalker Zombie
* Gravedigger Zombie
* Cargo Lifter Zombie
* Plant Zapper
* Sun Bather Zombie
* Crab Zombie
* Zombie Snail
* Zombot Octo Inker
* Dynamite Zombie
* Eagle Zombie
* Steampunk Zombie
* Fog Machine Imp
* Mountain Climber Zombie
* Zombot Mist-ery
* Sasquatch
* Trucker Gargantuar
* Flying Imp
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