Marrow March

Games like Plants vs. Zombies

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Plants vs. Zombies made tower defense friendly: a lawn in lanes, plants with jobs anyone can read at a glance, and zombies with personality. These games keep some of that: the lanes, the humour, the zombies, or simply a defense you learn in a minute and keep improving for hours.

We make Marrow March, so it is on this list; it is marked as ours and it comes last. The rest are games we would point a friend to.

  1. Plants vs. Zombies 2

    PopCap, Electronic Arts · iOS, Android · Free, with ads and in-app purchases

    The sequel, free on mobile: legions of zombies from the dawn of time to the end of days, hundreds of plants to collect, and Plant Food to supercharge them.

  2. Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted

    PopCap Games, The Lost Pixels · Windows (Steam) · Paid

    If you last played it years ago: the original, remastered in HD in 2025, with new secrets and content to uncover. On Steam.

  3. Swamp Attack

    Moving Eye · iOS, Android · Free, with ads and in-app purchases

    Defend your porch with a growing arsenal while mutant gators, alien invaders and zombies come at you through the swamp: a comic defense with the same daft charm.

  4. Dead Ahead: Zombie Warfare

    Mobirate · iOS, Android · Free, with ads and in-app purchases

    Hold out against raid after raid of zombies, collecting supplies and looking for survivors along the way.

  5. Garden Rescue

    Rainbow Games · Windows (Steam) · Paid

    The nearest to the original idea on PC: the plants defend a garden from waves of sneaky beetles.

  6. Bloons TD 6

    Ninja Kiwi · Windows, Mac (Steam), iOS, Android · Paid

    Another defense anyone can read at a glance and few people master: monkeys against balloons, 25 towers with three upgrade paths each, and heroes.

  7. Zombie Defense

    Home Net Games · Windows, Mac, Linux (Steam) · Free

    Recruit soldiers, place them on slots and let them shoot the incoming waves on their own, with supplies, grenades and airstrikes to call in: of everything here, the nearest to how Marrow March plays.

  8. Kingdom Rush

    Ironhide Game Studio · Browser (CrazyGames) · Free

    Free in the browser on CrazyGames: the fantasy tower defense with the same friendly face and a lot more depth than it lets on.

  9. Marrow MarchOur game

    Enes (us) · Desktop browser · Free

    If what you liked was the dead coming in waves: our tower defense sends a skeleton horde, 13 kinds of them, against the last wall, and you place and train the soldiers who hold it. Free in a desktop browser.

How we chose

We kept games that share at least one of its strengths: lane defense, a cast with character, or zombies at the gate. Facts were checked against each game's store on 1 October 2026.

Questions

Is there a game like Plants vs. Zombies on PC?

Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted is the original, remastered in HD for PC. Garden Rescue keeps the plants-defend-the-garden idea, Bloons TD 6 and Zombie Defense are on Steam, and Marrow March runs free in a desktop browser.

Is there a game like Plants vs. Zombies on mobile?

Plants vs. Zombies 2 is free on iOS and Android. Swamp Attack and Dead Ahead: Zombie Warfare are free defenses with zombies on both.

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