Plants vs. Zombies™ 2 vs Last War:Survival
Choose Plants vs. Zombies 2 for its engaging gameplay despite technical issues.
Plants vs. Zombies 2 offers a fun and addictive experience, though it struggles with stability and ads. Last War: Survival has a more complex gameplay but is criticized for its heavy reliance on in-app purchases and time commitment.
Head to head
you enjoy strategic gameplay with a variety of plants and levels, despite some technical issues.
you prefer base-building and resource management games and are willing to invest time and money.
Evidence note: Both apps have significant complaints about bugs and in-app purchases, but Plants vs. Zombies 2 generally has more positive reviews about gameplay despite the issues.
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What reviewers actually said
Built only from these 120 real reviews (foreign ones translated). Superscripts jump to the quote here. Apple has no per-review links, so [ref] opens that app's reviews on the App Store.
- [R8] Plants vs. Zombies™ 2 Good Game: Everything is great, but the Premium and Seedium plants really bother me. It really pushes you to buy those just to get by a few levels. Still, absolute CINEMA game even to the OST. 5/5 stars all day every day
- [R56] Plants vs. Zombies™ 2 Great Game!: A really good game! It’s offline and somewhat satisfying. There’s nothing better than watching a group of zombies getting blown up. But I need EA to explain WHY the Chinese version of PVZ2 has like 80 more plants and like 3 more WORLDS, please fix this. Otherwise, RECOMMENDED!
- [R63] Last War:Survival Game gets stale: By season 5 the game gets boring since the developers stepped down the game gets stagnant
- [R84] Last War:Survival Used to be more fun: Game is fun but since they removed almost all special events but 2 that just rotate every couple weeks or so it really makes you notice how repetitive this game is. Gets very boring after a while without the new event per week
- [R3] Plants vs. Zombies™ 2 This game has pros and cons: One of the pros are that the game is extremely fun but in contrary, the game crashes way too much to enjoy properly. Please fix this for mobile. Thanks!
- [R30] Plants vs. Zombies™ 2 Crashes all the time: Lately this games crashes all the time. This happens when trying to play special events . Arena, trying to collect rewards etc. the game is almost to the point of not being playable. I have deleted the game and reinstalled but it continues to happen. I really enjoy this game too. Please fix.
- [R72] Last War:Survival Game not working: Game wont move beyond the building base screen. Been a long time player but sad bc the app isnt opening the past 2 days :(
- [R76] Last War:Survival The game freezes and locks you out: After about few months this game has gotten frozen on Home Screen and there is no update so everything is lost. Don’t waste your time or money
- [R28] Plants vs. Zombies™ 2 Beyond Broken…: For well over a year the app has been “delicate”. Move slowly or it’ll crash. Now it doesn’t matter, it just constantly crashes. Unplayable.
- [R52] Plants vs. Zombies™ 2 Bugs and crashes: I just downloaded this game a few days ago. Always crashes whatever you do. Play an event? Crash. Claim your reward? Crash. Opening the shop or loading something? Crash. It’s so delicate and I tried everything. And when it does work,sometimes the sun,mold and other sprites don’t show up. Deleted the game just after 2 days
- [R100] Last War:Survival Game not loading: What is going on…..I’ve been trying to load my game all day and it won’t
- [R88] Last War:Survival Don’t start. Lots of bugs and no support: I’m about to start season 2 and the devs have gone out of their way to make it impossible for f2p or low tier spenders to compete. Daily sales have been removed and task rewards have been reduced. Unless you or someone on your team wants to do non stop diplomacy with other alliances you won’t get anywhere. Today my shields were reduced for no reason and
- [R10] Plants vs. Zombies™ 2 Microtransactions: The newer plants and their animations are lazy, and this game is loaded with microtransactions, if you want to play a better pvz 2, just download a fan game version like refurnished.
- [R34] Plants vs. Zombies™ 2 Gross Greed: Asking users to pay $3 to remove scummy ads for only 30 days? That’s the real crime here. This franchise used to be amazing and now it’s just fallen to greed from every angle.
- [R66] Last War:Survival Addicted game but it is all about $$$$: Don’t download this game if you don’t plan to spend $2000+ and 4 hours a day. The part that is fun has almost no rewards and the only rewards come from $$$$. Game like this will eventually run out players as the regular players won’t stay long. Games that money plays some roles but not make you 100 times stronger than others are much better.
- [R101] Last War:Survival Too expensive: This game is fun to play but to compete you have to spend a lot of money. There are players spending thousands of dollars. If you want to compete at all you need to spend at least 40 dollars a month.
- [R57] Plants vs. Zombies™ 2 Good game but bungs: The game is good but doesn’t always give you your rewards. There isn’t anywhere to ask for help
- [R99] Last War:Survival Good game but absolutely useless customer service: The game itself is pretty good however after a update (which happens a lot) I was unable to gather my resources which was farmed within my base, I contacted customer service on numerous occasions and never heard anything back from them, I deleted the app and reinstalled it, it worked once then wouldn’t allow me to gather again, you need resources
- [R106] Last War:Survival It’s a pocket Casino: After more than $10k and 600 days of play I think it’s safe to call this game a casino. Its sole function is to get players to addicted to clicking on all the things to spend time and in turn spend money to keep up with everyone else. There are so many ways to spend money and every season brings new things to upgrade. Every aspect brings an increasing amount of things to spen
- [R1] Plants vs. Zombies™ 2 Ads and world keys: Too many ads, too many in app purchases and no world keys anymore
Synthesized from 120 recent App Store reviews · updated July 2026 · View on the App Store