How many copies has Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition sold?

indielist estimates Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition has sold between 5,961,312 and 13,909,728 units (median 9,935,520), derived from its 141,936 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition?

Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition was developed by PopCap Games, Inc. and published by PopCap Games, Inc..

Who published Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition?

Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition was published by PopCap Games, Inc., developed by PopCap Games, Inc.. See PopCap Games, Inc.'s full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition released?

Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition was released in 2009.

How many reviews does Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition have on Steam?

Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition has 141,936 Steam reviews, of which 98% are positive.

Is Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition worth playing?

Steam players rate Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition 98% positive across 141,936 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition

May 5, 2009 Strategy $4.99

Developer PopCap Games, Inc. Publisher PopCap Games, Inc.

Profile updated May 2026

Tower defense mechanics define this release, which arrived on the market in 2009. The title maintains a high market standing with 41,714 reviews on Steam, 98% of which are positive. This performance confirms its status as an indie product within the platform's library.

Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition is a 2009 Strategy game developed by PopCap Games, Inc. and published by PopCap Games, Inc.. On Steam it has gathered 141,936 player reviews, 98% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Strategy category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $5. The pairing of developer PopCap Games, Inc. with publisher PopCap Games, Inc. is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Strategy projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 6.0 million to 13.9 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition can be compared against similar Strategy titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

141,936

Positive

98%

Steam appid

3590

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

1,629

Fresh snapshot · 2026-07-24 21:35 UTC · 24h peak 3,717

Sales estimate

v1.0

6.0M to 13.9M

units (median: 9.9M)

≈ $17.0M to $39.6M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

6.0M median 13.9M

+ How is this calculated?

141,936 reviews × NB(70) = 9,935,520 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2009	+30
price_$5	-20
positive_98%	+10
final NB	70

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition at roughly 6.0 million to 13.9 million copies, with a median around 9.9 million, derived from its 141,936 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $28.3M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.

Price history

54 observed days · window low $4.99

Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-15 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $4.99 to $4.99. The tracked-window low was $4.99 on 2026-05-15.

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Platforms

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition sold?: indielist estimates Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition has sold between 5,961,312 and 13,909,728 units (median 9,935,520), derived from its 141,936 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition?: Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition was developed by PopCap Games, Inc. and published by PopCap Games, Inc..
Who published Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition?: Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition was published by PopCap Games, Inc., developed by PopCap Games, Inc.. See PopCap Games, Inc.'s full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition released?: Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition was released in 2009.
How many reviews does Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition have on Steam?: Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition has 141,936 Steam reviews, of which 98% are positive.
Is Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition worth playing?: Steam players rate Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition 98% positive across 141,936 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Strategy titles such as World of Goo, Hidden Folks, Plague Inc: Evolved, Clicker Heroes, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, PopCap Games, Inc.'s other releases and PopCap Games, Inc.'s wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Strategy game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.