Comparison

Plants VS Bugs vs Plants vs Goblins 4

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

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About

Plants VS Bugs

Engage in a strategic tower defense game where you command plants to defend your homeland or bugs to attack enemy territories. Features real-time online battles, a vast collection of unique plants and bugs to train, and numerous challenging levels.

Highlights
  • Real-time networking battles
  • Collect and train 24 plant types
  • Collect and train 18 bug types
  • Challenging game levels
  • Customizable defensive and attack formations
  • Daily tasks and ranking systems
Features
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■■■Game Introduction■■■ “Plants VS Bugs” is a strategy game that includes tower defense, real-time networking battle, collection, training and other elements. In this game, the player can control the plants against the enemy's attack, and protect his own homeland; the player can also control the bugs and attack the enemy's homeland. In real-time networking battle mode, the player need to control both the plants and the bugs. ■■■Game Feature■■■ 1. In real time networking battle mode, an online player who be matched in strength will be selected for you by system. You can also invite your friends to play. 2. You can challenge a large number of carefully designed game levels. In the process, you can try all kinds of defensive formation and attack formation, and then you will be able to find and sum up your own fighting strategy. 3. There are 24 kinds of plants. Each type of plant has its own unique defense properties. You can choose to cultivate some plants according to your own defensive strategy, and upgrade and enhance their properties. 4. There are 18 kinds of bugs. Each type of bug has its own unique attack properties. You can choose to cultivate some bugs according to your own attack strategy, and upgrade and enhance their properties. 5. The cultivation of plants or bugs in the designated areas can greatly shorten the time needed for growth, but at the same time, but at the same time it is also at risk of being harvested by others. 6. The game also provides daily tasks, a variety of ranking and other systems. At the same time, the game incorporates many innovative elements, extending many interesting gameplay. What are you waiting for? Download it right away, and join the interesting world of plants and bugs! ■■■Contact Us■■■ Email: services@mudotek.com

About

Plants vs Goblins 4

Defend the Garden Kingdom from a massive goblin invasion. Strategically plant and utilize various flora, including strawberries for power-ups, to combat waves of enemies and their devastating artillery. Explore new levels and uncover surprises in this epic plant-versus-goblin battle.

Highlights
  • Strategic plant placement
  • Diverse plant types
  • Goblin enemy variety
  • Power-up system (strawberries)
  • New levels and surprises
  • Intense combat scenarios
Features
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In recent times, the Garden Kingdom has evolved to be a haven for the plants, since all the cold and gruesome wars with the Goblins, it had regenerated an air of harmony, flourishing the gardening art and culture. They had festivals and competitions, and the youthful saplings sang the melodies and listened to accounts of war veterans. The great number of lives laid forth by the heroic plants raised a field full of blooming red strawberries after the Battle of Peasburg, and as a tribute to the fallen heroes and to pick up their insight and power, the young green warriors sow strawberries, to grow other plants and to gain flower-like points. The Kingdom had established good relations with the neighboring pumpkin and ginseng fields. The tremendous corn fields likewise trained their cobs with the green warriors. They welcomed the bordering forest beasty carnivorous plants into civilization. They had all pledged allegiance to the garden realm, in time of peace and war, to secure each knoll and turf, garden and nursery alike. Who knew the war wouldn't be that long to come? The archenemy vile goblins had donned on their facade of conceit. The goblins devised the biggest artillery with the help of the shrewdest of ghouls, elves, gnomes, pixies, and ghosts. They have been plotting ever since and gathered the biggest force the world has ever seen. They hadnít left but were biding their time until they destroy all the plants from the face of the earth. With the standing army of millions of destructive armored goblins, the thick billows of war were encompassing the Garden Kingdom and the air of dread and death was stirring. One fine morning, an immense tremor shook the grounds of the Garden Kingdom. The sky turned gloomy. The plants saw a rising tsunami and off came a Goblin Cyclop, pulverizing everything in its way. The war was declared, sirens aloud, the green warriors ready to protect. The Goblin army was something unseen before, covering every inch of sky, land, and water, with the goblin flying bombers, archers, warriors, and goblin riders. The flying goblin was back with the dynamite, which could kill all the plants within seconds. Nonetheless, the sons of the Garden Kingdom, with chlorophyll running in their veins fought with all their might, entangling and the goblins, the pumpkin cannonballs crushed the flying goblins, joined by ginseng, corn, and carnivorous plants in the onslaught. Planting strawberries helped increment the plant power yet remained the question of the dynamite. Plants are devising ways to take and dismantle the dynamite, with every 21 plants against 17 goblins, with much more surprises and 46 new levels. Who will win? Let's play and find out. Here's Tip: Grow more strawberries to get more rewards!

Screenshots

Plants VS Bugs4 screens
Plants vs Goblins 43 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Plants vs Goblins 4 at none against Plants VS Bugs's 7. Plants vs Goblins 4 also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 weeks). Plants VS Bugs's advantage is iOS requirement (7.1 vs 12.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Plants VS Bugs sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. Plants vs Goblins 4 asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Plants VS Bugs holds the better App Store score, 2.8 against 2.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 175 and 137 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 28% of Plants VS Bugs's written reviews are positive against 32% of Plants vs Goblins 4's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Plants VS Bugs ships an update every 3 weeks, Plants vs Goblins 4 every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Plants VS Bugs versus Plants vs Goblins 4: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlants VS BugsPlants vs Goblins 4
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.8 (175 ratings) — better2.6 (137 ratings)
Positive reviews28.3% of reviews31.8% of reviews — better
Number of ratings175 — better137
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS7.1 — better12.0
Further details — not scored
Size82 MB272 MB
Age rating9+4+
Developer驰国 马Aleksey Tselinko

Customer experience

Plants VS Bugs

All ratings175 ratings
Positive39.4%
Neutral6.9%
Negative53.7%
Written reviews92 reviews
Positive28.3%
Neutral10.9%
Negative60.9%

Plants vs Goblins 4

All ratings137 ratings
Positive38.0%
Neutral5.1%
Negative56.9%
Written reviews110 reviews
Positive31.8%
Neutral7.3%
Negative60.9%

User reviews

Plants VS Bugs

From 175 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🎮 Unique PvZ twist with dual-team gameplay
  • 🌱 Interesting plant-growing mechanic
  • 👥 Multiplayer/online competitive features
  • 🎨 Cute graphics and character names
  • 😊 Addictive gameplay when functional

Room to improve

  • ⏳ Extremely long loading times
  • 🐛 Gets stuck on loading/title screen
  • 📋 Derivative of Plants vs Zombies
  • 🔧 Numerous glitches and bugs
  • 💪 Plants are too weak compared to bugs

Plants vs Goblins 4

From 137 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🎮 Engaging gameplay mechanics for some players
  • 🎨 Unique plant designs with visual appeal
  • ⏱️ Good time-killer entertainment value
  • 🏆 Challenging difficulty that rewards strategy
  • 👥 Social appeal for group play sessions

Room to improve

  • 🚫 Blatant Plants vs Zombies ripoff
  • 🔊 Terrible sound design and goblin noises
  • 🎵 Missing menu and game music
  • 🎬 Poor animation quality (4-frame idle animations)
  • ⚠️ Severe bugs and game-breaking errors

Bugs and requests

Plants VS Bugs

Reported bugs

9 issues
  • Loading screen hangs indefinitely
  • Game crashes during loading
  • Title screen never progresses
  • Loading bar resets when complete
  • Connection failures after loading completes
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  • Text display cut off mid-word
  • Game stuck at 0% loading
  • Reinstalling doesn't resolve loading issues
  • Progress lost when unable to open game

Requested features

8 requests
  • Fix loading screen performance
  • Add more plants and bugs
  • Allow access to super plants/bugs
  • Improve star earning difficulty curve
  • Add new characters/slots per level completion
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  • Create sequel with better execution
  • Add AI fight mode
  • Balance plant strength vs bugs

Plants vs Goblins 4

Reported bugs

8 issues
  • Game crashes with 'error' messages on startup
  • Physics glitches causing plants to grow off-screen and water flooding
  • Severe lag and performance issues
  • Game doesn't pause during ad videos, causing unfair gameplay
  • Goblins combining unexpectedly mid-level
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  • Inability to see damage indicators on goblins
  • Game freezing and unresponsive controls
  • Incompatibility issues with certain devices

Requested features

14 requests
  • Add comprehensive tutorial explaining plant abilities
  • Implement background music in menus and gameplay
  • Improve goblin sound effects and voice lines
  • Increase animation frames for plant idle animations
  • Add more diverse level designs beyond level 32
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  • Reduce ad frequency and allow gameplay pausing during ads
  • Improve sun/resource generation rates
  • Create better and more intuitive UI menus
  • Add final boss encounter and ending cutscene
  • Increase plant variety and count
  • Implement language selection options
  • Add in-game marketplace or shop features
  • Reduce overall game difficulty or add difficulty settings
  • Optimize game performance and fix lag issues

In-app purchases

7 purchases

Plants VS Bugs

One-time7
  • Little box of gems$0.99
  • Half box of gems$0.99
  • Gift Pack$0.99
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  • Monthly Card Of 300 Gems$0.99
  • Monthly Card Of Double EXP$0.99
  • Big box of gems$1.99
  • Full box of gems$4.99
None

Plants vs Goblins 4

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Plants VS Bugs free?
Plants VS Bugs is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Plants vs Goblins 4 free?
Plants vs Goblins 4 is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Plants VS Bugs or Plants vs Goblins 4?
Plants VS Bugs is rated higher. Plants VS Bugs averages 2.8 out of 5 from 175 ratings, while Plants vs Goblins 4 averages 2.6 from 137 ratings.
Do Plants VS Bugs or Plants vs Goblins 4 have ads?
Neither Plants VS Bugs nor Plants vs Goblins 4 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Plants VS Bugs or Plants vs Goblins 4?
Plants VS Bugs ships an update every 3 weeks, and Plants vs Goblins 4 every 9 days. Most recently, Plants VS Bugs was updated on October 9, 2026 and Plants vs Goblins 4 on October 13, 2026.

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