re-plants-vs-zombies
Reverse-engineered rebuild of the GOTY Plants vs. Zombies that modernises the old engine and swaps legacy DirectX for a GLFW backend.
Decompilation Not stated wipFacts
- Original
- Plants vs. Zombies (GOTY) (2009)
- Platform
- Windows
- Method
- Decompilation
- Provenance
- Not stated what this means
- Status
- wip
- Licence
- CC0-1.0
- Team
- Patoke
- Started
- 2023-07
- Runs on
- Windows
- 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 (GOTY) you own. Recomp never links to ROMs, discs or game data.
This project was decompiled by Patoke. Facts last checked 2026-10-13.
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