Recomp / Games / Windows

PvZ-Portable

Community reimplementation of Plants vs. Zombies GOTY aiming for the authentic experience on many platforms.

Rewrite Not stated released
Image: the project's own GitHub preview · source
Stars823+19 ★ in 4 days
Commits, 30 days9
Latest release0.2.5Oct 10, 2026
Last pushOct 18, 2026

GitHub figures as of 2026-10-18, refreshed daily.

Facts

Original
Plants vs. Zombies (Game of the Year Edition) (2009)
Platform
Windows
Method
Rewrite
Provenance
Not stated what this means
Status
released
Licence
LGPL-3.0
Team
wszqkzqk
Started
2026-01
Needs the original
Yes: you supply your own legally obtained copy

How to get it legally

This project ships code only. Build or download it from the official repository, then supply data from a copy of Plants vs. Zombies (Game of the Year Edition) you own. Recomp never links to ROMs, discs or game data.

This project was rebuilt by wszqkzqk. Facts last checked 2026-10-14. Suggest a correction

Sources

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Windows · 2009 · ★ 22

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Work-in-progress matching decompilation of the 0.9.9 beta build of Plants vs. Zombies, checked with objdiff against the user's exe and PDB.

Matching decomp Not stated
+4 ★ in 4 days

Windows · 2009 · ★ 121

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Plants vs. Zombies

Fork of a Plants vs. Zombies decompilation with fixes checked against the original binary.

Decompilation AI-assisted
+4 ★ in 4 days

Windows · 2009 · ★ 237

re-plants-vs-zombies

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Decompilation Not stated

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Archived disassembly of the Windows pinball game; the author points to the SpaceCadetPinball project for a working version.

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Clean-room Not stated

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