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0.0 hrs last two weeks / 59.9 hrs on record
Posted: Oct 1, 2025 @ 8:46am

Ah, Unturned, you brave, blocky testament to the fact that sometimes the apocalypse can be built out of cubes and polygons barely thicker than a slice of cardboard. You gave us a sandbox of survival: chopping down trees made of four pixels, driving box-shaped cars that somehow always explode, and shooting zombies who look like they’ve just escaped from a low-budget Lego convention. And your soundtrack—ah yes, that melancholic, minimalist OST that makes me feel like I’m the last human alive in a world made entirely of sharpened shoeboxes. Beautiful, haunting, but let’s be honest: next to Plant Vs Zombies : GOTY Edition, it feels like a kazoo solo trying to outshine a full chlorophyllic orchestra.

Because in Unturned, the music hums softly as you forage for berries and patchwork bandages, whispering to you: “yes, you are alone, and yes, this world is emptier than your fridge.” Meanwhile, in Plant Vs Zombies : GOTY Edition, the soundtrack celebrates every pea shot, every wall-nut sacrifice, every cherry bomb detonation. Its OST is not survival—it is VICTORY manifest, trumpeting the glory of photosynthesis in 4/4 rhythm. The final sunflower song in Plant Vs Zombies : GOTY Edition could make even the blockiest Unturned zombie break into dance and renounce the apocalypse entirely.

In Unturned, you survive by scavenging, rationing, and running away from zombies shaped like disgruntled filing cabinets.
In Plant Vs Zombies : GOTY Edition, you CRUSH zombies with botanical overkill. Do you have exploding potatoes, Unturned? No. Do you have mushrooms that weaponize sleep itself? No. Do you have corn cobs that rain down buttery destruction from the heavens? Absolutely not. You have… canned beans and a rifle that jams.

And oh, your zombies, Unturned—square-headed, slow, awkward, like interns on their first day at a haunted IKEA. They are honest zombies, yes, but next to the lineup of Plant Vs Zombies : GOTY Edition, they seem underdressed. For here come the disco zombies, the football zombies, the dolphin-riding zombies! Zombies with personality, zombies with ambition, zombies with swagger. Your zombies simply lurch and groan; theirs arrive with choreography and props.

So congratulations, Unturned, for crafting a survival playground where simplicity and cubes reign supreme. You are the quiet guitar strum in the corner of the apocalypse. But when compared to the dazzling horticultural opera of Plant Vs Zombies : GOTY Edition, you are the warm-up act while the main show showers the audience in sunbeams, pea projectiles, and the eternal chorus of victory sung by a smiling sunflower.
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