Plants - Zombies - Characters - Spaces - Minigames - Updates - Scrapped features
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Party and RPG |
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Platforms: |
Nintendo Switch |
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Release Dates |
May 26th 2020 (USA) |
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Current Version |
1.26.39 |
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Number of Players: |
1-4 (Local and Online) |
Plants vs. Zombies: Build Your Lawn! (Abbreviated as PvZ BYL) is a spin-off partystyle and RPG game of the Plants vs. Zombies franchise.
As of August 27th of 2020, it's sequel is being worked on, featuring new mechanics, art style and Story Mode. Plants vs. Zombies: Build Your Lawn! 2 is releasing in Spring 2021.
Latest News[]
With all the new content that we have brought for the past 6 months, it is time for the game to bloom into its final stage, we are honored to announce that the game's support has been ended and that it is a finished project. We plan on adding limited time content until December, but after that, everything will be done.
But as bad as this may sound, the team is already working on Plants vs. Zombies: Build Your Lawn! 2, which is a bigger project with many new surprises! We hope you have enjoyed this project as much as the team enjoyed making it, thanks to all for the support and feedback.
Gameplay[]
Plants vs. Zombies Build Your Lawn is a party game that has 20 turns or more, each player has its own lawn and they start from that point, each lawn is at each corner of the board. There are multiple boards to pick from and each of them has a different layout.
You will roll a dice block that has 1-6 faces and you will advance the shown spaces. You want to reach the Crazy Dave's Plant Stores that are in certain spots to buy him plants or environments with Sun, you can get Sun by playing minigames at the end of each turn or by landing on the Sun space, or you can get them by planting Sunflowers in your lawn.
The objective of the game is to defend your lawn from the zombies, you accomplish this by planting defending or attacking plants to prevent the zombies from reaching your house. The layout of your lawn is this one:
- 5 Rows
- 7 Columns
Zombies move different spaces forward at the start of each turn depending on the type of zombie. Your attacking plants attack them at the start of each turn as well, each game starts off with 1 Sunflower in each row to the left and 1 approaching zombie in each row to the right. Zombies will appear every turn (One per lane), there are multiple zombies with different strengths and abilities, there are also spaces on the board that can affect the movement of the zombies.
Zombies[]
Main article: Plants vs. Zombies: Build Your Lawn!/Zombies
Plants[]
Main article: Plants vs. Zombies: Build Your Lawn!/Plants
Minigames[]
Main article: Plants vs. Zombies: Build Your Lawn!/Minigames
Spaces[]
Main article: Plants vs. Zombies: Build Your Lawn!/Spaces
Environments[]
Environments can be purchased at Crazy Dave's Plant Stores. They will cover a lane and give an specific effect to plants or zombies. Plant environments benefit plants and can be bought by a player for their lawn, while Zombie environments benfit zombies and can be bought by a player for another player's lawn. They are bought with Sun.
Environments count towards the final Sun count at the end of the game.
Environment
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| Force Field | Plant | 300 | Plants here have a Tough defense |
| Mushroom Grotto | Plant | 300 | When a plant is played here, make a Puff-Shroom in another random lane. |
| The Red Plant-It | Plant | 500 | Plants here do +40 Damage |
| Planet of the Grapes | Plant | 200 | When a plant here destroys a zombie, move your character 1 Space forward. |
| Solar Winds | Plants | 200 | End of Turn: If there are 3 Zombies or less here, make a Sunflower here. |
| Area 22 | Zombie | 300 | Zombies here have +20 Health and Rapid speed. |
| Transformation Station | Zombie | 200 | Start of Turn: Transform the zombies here into a zombie that costs 25 Brains more. |
| Moon Base Z | Zombie | 300 | Zombies here jump over plants instead of eating them. |
| Black Hole | Zombie | 100 | Plants here do -10 Damage. |
| Laser Base Alpha | Zombie | 400 | Zombies here can eat plants 1 Space away from them. |
Superpowers[]
Superpowers are special minor abilities each character has based on their classes. Each character has 3 of them and each class has 3 superpowers (For a total of 15). Players are able to use them 1 time per match each. Here they are:
- Big Chill: A zombie can't move this turn. Move your character 1 Space forward.
- Whirlwind: Move a zombie 2 tiles behind it.
- Transmogrify: Transform a zombie into a random zombie that costs 50
or less. - Embiggen: A plant has +20 Damage.
- Time to Shine: A plant makes an extra attack.
- Holo-Flora: Your character moves twice as many spaces this turn.
- Scorched Earth: All zombies get -10 Health.
- Weed Whack: A zombie gets -20 Health and Stiff Speed.
- Geyser: You get +5 for each plant.
- More Spore: Make three Puff-Shrooms in random lanes and tiles.
- Storm Front: All attacking Plants do +10 Damage.
- Meteor Strike: A zombie's health is lowered to half.
- Nut Signal: Make 2 Wall-Nuts.
- Bubble Up: Move a plant. Move your character 1 Space forward.
- Root Wall: A plant gets an Armored defense.
or less.Dice Blocks[]
Dice Blocks are rolled by each player at the start of every turn, the players then move the number of spaces shown by the dice block. There are many dice blocks, each one with different numbers and colors. You pick the desired dice block for the game before the match begins.
You can also purchase them at Crazy Dave's Plant Stores for some Sun, every turn 3 random ones will appear to purchase. The player can have a total of 3 dice blocks at its disposal (The main one and the purchased ones), the purchased dice blocks can only be used once.
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Special Spots[]
These spots don't count as spaces, you don't have to land on them to trigger their effect, instead, passing through them will trigger their effect.
Crazy Dave's Plant Stores[]
Go through them and you will be able to buy any plant for your lawn.
Golden Shovel Trophy[]
Go through this space to get the Golden Shovel, with this item, you will be able to remove one plant from your lawn each turn and get full sun refund.
Hero Minigame Throne[]
Reach this space and you will fight a hero minigame, each player will get different rewards depending on their position in the game, the player that reached this space will get a boost.
Super Brainz Building Madness
Each player has to escalate a building by pressing the buttons shown on screen, but Super Brainz will be flying through the buildings as an obstacle to the players, if Super Brainz hits a player, they will, after 60 seconds, the player that escalated the most wins.
The Smash's Wrestling Feast
Each player has to imitate The Smash's wrestling moves with the usage of motion controls, they will get different amount of points based points based on their accuracy, but the least accurate player will be facing a slamming smackdown against him and lose some points. The player with the most points wins. There will be 10 rounds.
Point System: The most accurate player will get 5 Points, the second most accurate will get 4 Points, the third most accurate will get 2 Points, and the least accurate will get -2 points.
Impfinity's Imp Raid
Impfinity will make copies of himself and they will be mixed up, each player has to pick the one they think is the original, if they pick the right one, they will move one space forward, but if they pick the wrong one, they will not move, Impfinity's Imps will also move forward after the picking stage, and if they reach a player, the player loses. The player that reaches the end first wins, or if all other players have already been reached by Impfinity.
Structure: The Imps start in Space 1, while the players in Space 3, the Imps move 1 Space per turn, while the players move depending on their answer, if they were right, they move 1 Space per turn, but if they were wrong, they don't move.
Differences: There will be 1 small difference between the Imps and Impfinity that helps you identify the real one.
The Electrical Dance Off
Electric Boogaloo will summon Disco Zombies in the arena, and they will move and dance, the players have to follow the assigned Dancer with the joystick, the player with the most accuracy gets the most points. There are 5 rounds, each one harder than the previous one. However, starting from the third round, a secret dancer will appear, and the player with the most accuracy to it will lose points.
Point System: The most accurate player will get 10 Points, the second most accurate will get 8 Points, the third most accurate will get 6 Points, and the least accurate will get 4 Points, the most accurate towards the secret dancer will get -5 points.
The Rusty Junkyard
Rustbolt will throw 4 copies of an object at the whole junkyard and the players have to find it, and then take it to Rustbolt, the player with the fastest time wins, there are 4 rounds.
Octo-Mania
Neptuna will use her Octo-Pet to trap players in its tentacles. If you don't get trapped by the tantacles, you get a chance to attack her and get points, but if you get trapped you lose points. The Octo-Pet will be launched 10 times, and the player that ends with the most points wins. While Neptuna is vulnerable to attacks, you can attack her for 10 seconds, each attack you make takes 2 seconds to be completed.
Point System: Every attack gives the player 3 Points, while a tentacle attack gives the player -5 Points.
Prizes for the Hero Minigames:
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| First Place | 200
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| Second Place | 150
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| Third Place | 100
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| Fourth Place | 050
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025
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How to win the game[]
At the end of the 20 turns, there will be a sun countdown, each plant will be refunded for their initial cost and the player with the most sun wins, but there will also be a brain countdown, each zombie will be refunded for their token cost, and the final brain quantity will be substracted to the total sun quantity.
Alternatively, a player can win if all the other players have had their brains eaten. If the zombies reach your house, the player loses and gets its brain eaten. If three players have lost, the remaining one wins.
Characters[]
Main article: Plants vs. Zombies: Build Your Lawn!/Characters
Boards[]
There are 6 boards, each one with a different layout
- Daytime House: No gimmick
- Nighttime House: Plants cost +10 Sun more.
- Pool Backyard: Zombies have +10 Health.
- Fog Backyard: Plants cost +10 Sun. The dice block is altered and changes of numbers each turn, alternating from 1,2,3 to 4,5,6.
- Roof: Peashooters do -10 Damage, Pults do +10 Damage.
- Time Machine: Players switch places every two turns.
Extra Game Modes[]
Story Mode[]
You have to play through every board against the AI and beat them to win that match, once you beat one game, you unlock the next one in the next board in this mode. There is a special mission in each board, and if it is completed, you unlock a character.
Here are the special missions for each board:
- Daytime House: (To unlock Kernel Corn) Win half of the minigames of the match.
- Nighttime House: (To unlock Citron) Only have 15 Plants or less on the lawn for the whole match.
- Pool Backyard: (To unlock Grass Knuckles) Win the match with only peashooters as attacking plants.
- Fog Backyard: (To unlock Rose) Buy 20 Mushrooms.
- Roof: (To unlock Wall-Knight) Win the match without the usage of Pults.
- Time Machine: (To unlock Captain Combustible) Win the match without using plants with 0 Damage besides Sunflowers.
Zen Glory[]
In this mode, each player has 4 plants in a Zen Garden, the plants are all small at first, the players play minigames and the ones in the top 2 places get to water 2 plants, when you water a small plant, it grows to the middle stage, and if you water it again, it grows completely and you don’t have to water it again. If you make all your plants grow to the big stage, you win. The twist is, once you water a plant, if after two minigames you haven’t watered it again, it will shrink to the small stage, and if you don’t water it for other two minigames, you lose the plant. If you lose a plant, when you win a minigame instead of watering one of your allies, you have to plant one. If you lose 2 plants, you lose the game.
Endless Game[]
In this game mode, you will have a regular game (with CPUs only) but it won't end until all players lose except you, or if you lose. This mode will have endless zombie waves (Will get bigger the more turns there are) and you will play minigames as normal, except that just like in Plants vs. Zombies 1, you will have unlimited access to the Shovel and Evolution plants will have an increased cost the more you play them. After turn 20, unlike in the regular game mode, zombies will summon in each lane after each turn no matter what instead of after two turns.
I, Zombie[]
In this game mode, you take control of the zombie side and your mission is to eat the brains at the end of the lawn. But there are plants there, so be careful and plan things correctly, because you have limited Sun.
There are four levels:
- Easy (5 waves against only the first 7 Plants)
- Medium (10 waves against the first 15 plants)
- Hard (20 waves against all plants)
- Endless (Against all plants)
Just like in Plants vs. Zombies, you get Sun when your zombies eat Sunflowers. Your Sun resets after every wave to 300. Instead of being turn-based like the main game mode, in this mode it is like in the original game where zombies move based on their speed and attack plants.
Zombies that you can use in this mode:
- Zombie
- Conehead
- Buckethead
- Football Zombie
- Jack-in-the-box Zombie
- Gargantuar
- Disco Zombie
- Traffic Light Zombie
Botany Casino[]
Players will go through a set of 10 minigames, gaining Sun based on their placement. Before playing each minigame, players will bet a certain amount of their Sun quantity based on what placement they think they will get in the next minigame, players that get their bet right will get the Sun that was betted (e.g. if two players get their bet right, the Sun betted will be split into two and both players get one half). After the ten minigames, the player with the most Sun wins.
Sun quantities you can bet:
- 25 Sun
- 50 Sun
- 100 Sun
- Half your Sun
- All your Sun
Dice Creator[]
Along with the new dice blocks the player can pick before playing a match, it can also pick one made by itself in the Dice Creator mode. The player can pick colors, numbers, name and a small description to give to his dice block. When finished, the dice can be saved and used in the "Quick Game" mode. A total of 10 dice blocks can be saved.
The dice blocks can have any number from 1 to 10, but it must have a total of 24 numbers or less (e.g. a typical dice block has 1,2,3,4,5,6, which gives for a total of 21, your own dice blocks must have a total of 24 or less).
Screenshot coming soon!
Event history[]
Birthdayz 2020 (July 18th - August 8th)[]
This event brought one new plant exclusive to the event, Crazy Cacao.
Fall is Coming 2020 (September 11th - October 1st)[]
This was the first season event of the game, it brought 1 new exclusive plant, zombie and board.
Lawn of Doom 2020 (October 11th - November 1st)[]
This event brought 1 new plant and zombie to celebrate the Halloween (Called "Lawn of Doom" in the saga).
Update history[]
Main article: Plants vs. Zombies: Build Your Lawn!/Update history
Upcoming content[]
Main article: Plants vs. Zombies: Build Your Lawn!/Upcoming content
Sales and reception[]
| Plants vs. Zombies: Build Your Lawn! received primarily positive reviews by critics, though the graphics were considered "below expectations" in regards to previous games from the franchise and the hardware's potential. The gameplay however saw praise for its risk-taking and new concepts. The criticism helped Fun Animation Productions develop the game's highly-successful sequel, making overall improvements in multiple aspects. |
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Sales-wise, the game has been a great success considering its short lifespan. It has sold over 7.7 million copies worldwide, which was enough for the game to get a sequel announced in August 2020. It is currently the joint 22nd best-selling Nintendo Switch game.
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Trivia[]
- The minigame "The rose's nightmare" is a reference to the Graveyard Variety Pack DLC from Plants vs. Zombies Garden Warfare 2, in which the playable plant class Rose got heavily weakened, that's why in the minigame, a rose is seen scared in a graveyard.
- As of update 1.16.02, Cob Cannon is the plant with the highest Damage in the game, with 200.
- Goat is the zombie with the lowest health, having only 10.
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