While the game’s theme is zombie-based, the tongue-in-cheek presentation is very cartoonish in nature, featuring no blood or gore. At first, only a few types of plants can be used, like pea shooters and cherry bombs, but as the game progresses the arsenal grows, eventually including rock walls, jalapeno plants and poisonous mushrooms. Sunlight can be gathered slowly over time, while planting sunflowers causes it to be gathered more quickly.
Sunlight serves as a currency of sorts, and is spent each time the player places a plant. The player’s job is to stop the zombies by planting plants around the yard, which will attack the zombies as they approach. Zombies is a real-time strategy game that pits the player against hordes of zombies trying to make their way across the lawn and into the house.
