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Garry's Mod

Facepunch Studios · Valve · 2006-11-29

Steam

CasualIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative

Releases: Oct 01, 2013 (Linux), Sep 23, 2010 (Mac), Dec 24, 2004 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

Garry's Mod is a Casual, Indie and Simulation game released in 2006, priced at $9.99, with an estimated 20,000,000 .. 50,000,000 owners and an Overwhelmingly Positive review sentiment (97% of 1,257,506 reviews).

34,118
playing now
97%
positive of 1.3M reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam rating
20,000,000–50,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
82
twitch viewers (latest)
79/100
IGDB user rating (474 ratings)
33501h
to beat · rushed 9.3h · completionist 41h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

34,118 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 15:00 UTC (census sample)

Garry's Mod, commonly clipped as GMod, is a 2006 sandbox game developed by Facepunch Studios and published by Valve. The base game mode of Garry's Mod has no set objectives and provides the player with a world in which to freely manipulate objects. Other game modes, notably Trouble in Terrorist Town and Prop Hunt, are created by other developers as mods and are installed separately, by means such as the Steam Workshop. Garry's Mod was created by Garry Newman as a mod for Valve's Source game engine and released in December 2004, before being expanded into a standalone release that was published by Valve in November 2006. Ports of the original Windows version for Mac OS X and Linux followed in September 2010 and June 2013, respectively. As of September 2021, Garry's Mod has sold more than 20 million copies. A spiritual successor, S&box, was released in 2026.

Health check

Thriving
  • · 34,118 players in-game right now — a Steam top-100 title.
  • · 68,888 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~8,611/week).
  • · Review velocity up 19% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 1% of 9,503 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 50M–101M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,261,816 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.49 at Steam (2012-11-02) · bundled 4×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 10 of 20 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
27k27k20182026Week of 2018-01-01: 4,332 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 211 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 3,257 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 165 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 2,993 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 170 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 2,417 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 156 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 2,551 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 131 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 3,532 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 211 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 3,897 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 211 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 2,843 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 155 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 2,016 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 122 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 2,024 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 133 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 8,976 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 196 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 3,091 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 185 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 3,104 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 185 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 2,880 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 147 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 2,339 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 106 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 2,335 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 119 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 2,448 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 151 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 10,735 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 304 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 12,942 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 348 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 2,394 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 135 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1,963 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 100 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 4,620 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 110 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 26,680 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 447 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 21,785 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 456 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 17,443 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 388 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 12,552 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 314 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 17,065 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 436 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 17,043 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 493 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 13,676 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 395 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 12,337 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 378 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 13,632 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 384 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 11,497 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 346 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 9,508 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 299 negativeWeek of 2020-10-01: 9,701 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 241 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 12,783 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 332 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 12,908 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 352 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 13,955 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 383 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 11,231 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 329 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 10,547 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 323 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 9,571 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 290 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 9,757 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 338 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 10,350 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 377 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 12,361 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 425 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 11,466 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 351 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 8,796 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 270 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 9,353 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 326 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 11,068 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 324 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 11,176 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 367 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 14,008 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 443 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 10,796 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 382 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 9,372 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 519 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 8,729 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 310 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 8,915 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 343 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 11,297 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 406 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 14,257 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 494 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 13,415 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 424 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 10,002 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 299 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 9,390 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 310 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 11,470 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 298 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 11,482 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 389 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 12,533 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 413 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 8,343 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 272 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 9,087 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 284 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 8,181 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 285 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 8,585 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 275 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 10,500 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 352 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 14,759 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 446 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 10,172 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 353 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 7,761 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 254 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 7,574 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 249 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 10,968 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 294 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 10,333 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 338 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 10,923 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 375 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 8,066 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 270 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 8,972 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 300 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 6,991 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 302 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 7,035 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 273 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 8,230 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 316 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 11,199 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 395 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 8,653 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 312 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 5,851 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 225 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 6,101 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 221 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 9,997 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 257 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 10,038 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 261 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 10,921 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 385 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 7,306 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 271 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 8,099 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 281 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 5,970 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 222 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 5,828 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 213 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 7,155 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 226 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 7,944 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 277 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 6,647 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 243 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 5,580 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 194 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 6,918 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 268 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 9,885 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 213 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 8,420 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 242 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 9,817 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 290 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 8,053 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 247 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 8,298 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 252 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 7,235 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 229 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 7,508 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 257 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 7,833 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 262 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 9,636 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 309 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1,875 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 66 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

38k15k2026-08-06 16:00 — 32,138 players2026-08-07 07:00 — 18,223 players2026-08-07 22:00 — 28,587 players2026-08-08 13:00 — 28,256 players2026-08-09 04:00 — 21,598 players2026-08-09 19:00 — 37,776 players2026-08-10 10:00 — 22,973 players2026-08-11 01:00 — 22,911 players2026-08-11 16:00 — 32,933 players2026-08-12 07:00 — 17,540 players2026-08-12 22:00 — 27,087 players2026-08-13 13:00 — 27,905 players2026-08-14 04:00 — 17,448 players2026-08-14 19:00 — 33,997 players2026-08-15 10:00 — 22,313 players2026-08-16 01:00 — 24,223 players2026-08-16 16:00 — 35,185 players2026-08-17 07:00 — 17,626 players2026-08-17 22:00 — 27,037 players2026-08-18 13:00 — 27,962 players2026-08-19 04:00 — 16,941 players2026-08-19 19:00 — 33,265 players2026-08-20 10:00 — 21,770 players2026-08-21 01:00 — 20,435 players2026-08-21 16:00 — 31,225 players2026-08-22 07:00 — 18,009 players2026-08-22 22:00 — 29,770 players2026-08-23 13:00 — 28,576 players2026-08-24 04:00 — 16,367 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 32,473 players2026-08-25 10:00 — 21,576 players2026-08-26 01:00 — 19,477 players2026-08-26 16:00 — 30,358 players2026-08-27 08:00 — 17,803 players2026-08-27 23:00 — 22,399 players2026-08-28 14:00 — 28,814 players2026-08-29 05:00 — 17,984 players2026-08-29 20:00 — 34,821 players2026-08-30 11:00 — 24,943 players2026-08-30 15:00 — 34,118 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Chart history

#43#492026-08-062026-08-302026-08-06 — #492026-08-07 — #492026-08-08 — #492026-08-09 — #492026-08-10 — #492026-08-11 — #492026-08-12 — #452026-08-13 — #452026-08-14 — #462026-08-15 — #462026-08-16 — #452026-08-17 — #452026-08-18 — #442026-08-19 — #432026-08-20 — #432026-08-21 — #462026-08-22 — #462026-08-23 — #472026-08-24 — #482026-08-25 — #472026-08-26 — #472026-08-27 — #482026-08-28 — #482026-08-29 — #492026-08-30 — #48
Best Steam most-played rank per day (census top-100 snapshots).
PositiveNegative
3033032026-08-072026-08-302026-08-07: 259 new positive2026-08-07: 11 new negative2026-08-08: 303 new positive2026-08-08: 6 new negative2026-08-09: 289 new positive2026-08-09: 4 new negative2026-08-10: 265 new positive2026-08-11: 249 new positive2026-08-11: 11 new negative2026-08-12: 259 new positive2026-08-12: 3 new negative2026-08-14: 246 new positive2026-08-14: 4 new negative2026-08-15: 246 new positive2026-08-15: 16 new negative2026-08-16: 248 new positive2026-08-16: 4 new negative2026-08-17: 297 new positive2026-08-17: 2 new negative2026-08-18: 244 new positive2026-08-18: 10 new negative2026-08-19: 216 new positive2026-08-19: 4 new negative2026-08-20: 238 new positive2026-08-20: 17 new negative2026-08-22: 241 new positive2026-08-22: 13 new negative2026-08-23: 247 new positive2026-08-23: 11 new negative2026-08-24: 231 new positive2026-08-24: 4 new negative2026-08-26: 215 new positive2026-08-26: 6 new negative2026-08-27: 163 new positive2026-08-27: 9 new negative2026-08-28: 174 new positive2026-08-28: 3 new negative2026-08-29: 254 new positive2026-08-29: 5 new negative2026-08-30: 255 new positive2026-08-30: 4 new negative
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$9.99$0.002015-01-012026-08-062015-01-01 — best price $2.492015-06-15 — best price $4.992015-07-30 — best price $2.492015-12-22 — best price $2.492016-04-12 — best price $2.492016-11-23 — best price $4.992017-06-22 — best price $4.992017-11-22 — best price $4.992018-02-15 — best price $4.992018-10-30 — best price $4.992018-12-20 — best price $4.992019-06-26 — best price $2.492019-11-10 — best price $6.692019-12-16 — best price $0.002020-01-27 — best price $9.992020-07-09 — best price $9.992020-12-01 — best price $9.992021-02-15 — best price $9.992021-11-01 — best price $9.992022-01-05 — best price $9.992022-07-07 — best price $9.992023-01-05 — best price $9.992023-07-13 — best price $9.992024-01-04 — best price $9.992024-07-11 — best price $9.992024-11-21 — best price $9.992025-01-02 — best price $9.992025-03-12 — best price $9.992025-04-25 — best price $9.992025-07-24 — best price $9.992025-10-20 — best price $9.992026-01-18 — best price $9.992026-03-26 — best price $9.992026-06-22 — best price $9.992026-08-05 — best price $9.992026-08-06 — best price $5.00
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1.0k6222026-05-29 — 831 pageviews2026-06-01 — 1,034 pageviews2026-06-04 — 799 pageviews2026-06-07 — 858 pageviews2026-06-10 — 752 pageviews2026-06-13 — 849 pageviews2026-06-16 — 800 pageviews2026-06-19 — 810 pageviews2026-06-22 — 934 pageviews2026-06-25 — 888 pageviews2026-06-28 — 913 pageviews2026-07-01 — 834 pageviews2026-07-04 — 768 pageviews2026-07-07 — 725 pageviews2026-07-10 — 898 pageviews2026-07-13 — 1,047 pageviews2026-07-16 — 999 pageviews2026-07-19 — 894 pageviews2026-07-22 — 845 pageviews2026-07-25 — 900 pageviews2026-07-28 — 847 pageviews2026-07-31 — 805 pageviews2026-08-03 — 745 pageviews2026-08-06 — 789 pageviews2026-08-09 — 697 pageviews2026-08-12 — 643 pageviews2026-08-15 — 622 pageviews2026-08-18 — 657 pageviews2026-08-21 — 808 pageviews2026-08-24 — 634 pageviews2026-08-26 — 671 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

1.6k02026-08-26 19:15 — 1,326 viewers2026-08-26 21:34 — 1,012 viewers2026-08-27 01:34 — 170 viewers2026-08-27 04:34 — 13 viewers2026-08-27 07:33 — 8 viewers2026-08-27 10:34 — 0 viewers2026-08-27 13:34 — 189 viewers2026-08-27 16:34 — 385 viewers2026-08-27 19:34 — 464 viewers2026-08-27 23:34 — 294 viewers2026-08-28 02:34 — 22 viewers2026-08-28 05:34 — 40 viewers2026-08-28 08:34 — 10 viewers2026-08-28 11:34 — 14 viewers2026-08-28 14:34 — 194 viewers2026-08-28 17:34 — 253 viewers2026-08-28 20:34 — 1,141 viewers2026-08-28 23:34 — 606 viewers2026-08-29 02:34 — 342 viewers2026-08-29 05:34 — 242 viewers2026-08-29 08:34 — 9 viewers2026-08-29 11:34 — 20 viewers2026-08-29 14:34 — 288 viewers2026-08-29 17:34 — 459 viewers2026-08-29 20:34 — 930 viewers2026-08-29 23:34 — 537 viewers2026-08-30 02:34 — 165 viewers2026-08-30 05:34 — 16 viewers2026-08-30 08:34 — 13 viewers2026-08-30 12:34 — 13 viewers2026-08-30 15:34 — 82 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (census snapshots).

Completion

29
achievements tracked
84.5%
earned "Play Multiplayer"
6.4%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPLAN PvPCo-opOnline Co-opLAN Co-opCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam Achievements

30 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian…

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)313,8333%29

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

FPSCo-opFunnyCasualComedyPhysicsSandboxShooterBuildingModdable

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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Similarity via IGDB.

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