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Garry's Mod

Facepunch Studios · Valve · 2006-11-29

Steam

CasualIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative · Perspectives: First person

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).

13,420
playing now
97%
positive of 1.3M reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
20,000,000–50,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
39
twitch viewers (latest)
3.5
viewers/channel (concentration)
79/100
IGDB user rating (474 ratings)
44
Nexus mods (20k downloads)
33501h
to beat · rushed 9.3h · completionist 41h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$9.99
steam price (US)

13,420 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 05:00 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
  • · 13,420 players in-game right now — a Steam top-100 title.
  • · 65,776 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~8,222/week).
  • · Review velocity up 2% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 1% of 29,219 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 51M–102M copies

Review-multiple estimate from 1,270,128 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 9 of 19 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
27k27k20182026Week 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: 8,651 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 295 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 6,516 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 195 negativeWeek of 2026-10-01: 2,494 positiveWeek of 2026-10-01: 65 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

37k12k2026-09-15 05:00 — 12,132 players2026-09-16 02:00 — 16,189 players2026-09-16 23:00 — 19,388 players2026-09-17 20:00 — 25,649 players2026-09-18 17:00 — 32,041 players2026-09-19 14:00 — 32,088 players2026-09-20 11:00 — 25,389 players2026-09-21 08:00 — 12,430 players2026-09-22 05:00 — 12,384 players2026-09-23 02:00 — 16,094 players2026-09-23 23:00 — 18,886 players2026-09-24 20:00 — 24,778 players2026-09-25 17:00 — 31,444 players2026-09-26 14:00 — 31,894 players2026-09-27 11:00 — 25,204 players2026-09-28 08:00 — 12,210 players2026-09-29 05:00 — 12,781 players2026-09-30 02:00 — 15,996 players2026-09-30 23:00 — 18,879 players2026-10-01 20:00 — 24,202 players2026-10-02 17:00 — 30,502 players2026-10-03 14:00 — 31,734 players2026-10-04 11:00 — 25,736 players2026-10-05 08:00 — 15,585 players2026-10-06 05:00 — 14,191 players2026-10-07 02:00 — 17,722 players2026-10-07 23:00 — 19,120 players2026-10-08 20:00 — 25,004 players2026-10-09 17:00 — 30,542 players2026-10-10 14:00 — 31,854 players2026-10-11 11:00 — 25,068 players2026-10-12 08:00 — 12,881 players2026-10-13 05:00 — 12,911 players2026-10-14 02:00 — 16,922 players2026-10-14 23:00 — 19,084 players2026-10-15 05:00 — 13,420 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
39k4.5kJul 2012Aug 2026Jul 2012 — avg 7,966 · peak 12,253Dec 2012 — avg 10,730 · peak 22,009May 2013 — avg 12,034 · peak 22,094Oct 2013 — avg 16,792 · peak 33,252Mar 2014 — avg 23,922 · peak 47,455Aug 2014 — avg 34,338 · peak 51,503Jan 2015 — avg 36,143 · peak 73,750Jun 2015 — avg 31,106 · peak 51,539Nov 2015 — avg 26,362 · peak 60,907Apr 2016 — avg 30,770 · peak 59,069Sep 2016 — avg 26,078 · peak 53,570Feb 2017 — avg 31,924 · peak 62,069Jul 2017 — avg 34,958 · peak 53,019Dec 2017 — avg 28,716 · peak 53,203May 2018 — avg 24,846 · peak 47,581Oct 2018 — avg 22,775 · peak 45,573Mar 2019 — avg 25,679 · peak 48,267Aug 2019 — avg 27,440 · peak 41,907Jan 2020 — avg 26,582 · peak 49,001Jun 2020 — avg 29,115 · peak 42,557Nov 2020 — avg 24,014 · peak 41,428Apr 2021 — avg 25,108 · peak 41,837Sep 2021 — avg 21,523 · peak 39,242Feb 2022 — avg 25,214 · peak 43,667Jul 2022 — avg 29,233 · peak 43,359Dec 2022 — avg 23,117 · peak 39,296May 2023 — avg 21,574 · peak 38,623Oct 2023 — avg 18,679 · peak 34,157Mar 2024 — avg 21,563 · peak 38,902Aug 2024 — avg 23,125 · peak 35,828Jan 2025 — avg 22,177 · peak 38,212Jun 2025 — avg 20,165 · peak 32,816Nov 2025 — avg 18,496 · peak 32,386Apr 2026 — avg 21,020 · peak 38,055Aug 2026 — avg 25,476 · peak 38,810
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Chart history

#5#612026-09-152026-10-152026-09-15 — #52026-09-16 — #52026-09-17 — #52026-09-18 — #552026-09-19 — #522026-09-20 — #502026-09-21 — #492026-09-22 — #492026-09-23 — #552026-09-24 — #562026-09-25 — #572026-09-26 — #532026-09-27 — #512026-09-28 — #512026-09-29 — #512026-09-30 — #562026-10-01 — #582026-10-02 — #582026-10-03 — #552026-10-04 — #532026-10-05 — #532026-10-06 — #532026-10-07 — #562026-10-08 — #572026-10-09 — #602026-10-10 — #582026-10-11 — #542026-10-12 — #542026-10-13 — #542026-10-14 — #612026-10-15 — #59
Best Steam most-played rank per day (census top-100 snapshots).
PositiveNegative
2562562026-09-162026-10-142026-09-16: 154 new positive2026-09-18: 183 new positive2026-09-18: 6 new negative2026-09-20: 233 new positive2026-09-20: 8 new negative2026-09-21: 189 new positive2026-09-21: 11 new negative2026-09-22: 256 new positive2026-09-22: 3 new negative2026-09-23: 117 new positive2026-09-23: 7 new negative2026-09-25: 153 new positive2026-09-25: 6 new negative2026-09-26: 211 new positive2026-09-26: 2 new negative2026-09-28: 163 new positive2026-09-28: 5 new negative2026-09-29: 137 new positive2026-10-01: 87 new positive2026-10-01: 6 new negative2026-10-02: 141 new positive2026-10-02: 9 new negative2026-10-03: 180 new positive2026-10-04: 210 new positive2026-10-04: 4 new negative2026-10-05: 228 new positive2026-10-05: 6 new negative2026-10-08: 167 new positive2026-10-08: 8 new negative2026-10-09: 143 new positive2026-10-09: 4 new negative2026-10-10: 167 new positive2026-10-10: 3 new negative2026-10-11: 201 new positive2026-10-11: 3 new negative2026-10-12: 172 new positive2026-10-12: 4 new negative2026-10-13: 123 new positive2026-10-13: 6 new negative2026-10-14: 119 new positive2026-10-14: 2 new negative
New Steam reviews per day (census review snapshots). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$9.99$0.002015-01-012026-09-272015-01-01 — 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 $9.992026-09-27 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1.1k5482026-05-29 — 831 pageviews2026-06-02 — 972 pageviews2026-06-06 — 854 pageviews2026-06-10 — 752 pageviews2026-06-14 — 846 pageviews2026-06-18 — 863 pageviews2026-06-22 — 934 pageviews2026-06-26 — 846 pageviews2026-06-30 — 879 pageviews2026-07-04 — 768 pageviews2026-07-08 — 744 pageviews2026-07-12 — 1,042 pageviews2026-07-16 — 999 pageviews2026-07-20 — 822 pageviews2026-07-24 — 924 pageviews2026-07-28 — 847 pageviews2026-08-01 — 845 pageviews2026-08-05 — 838 pageviews2026-08-09 — 697 pageviews2026-08-13 — 695 pageviews2026-08-17 — 656 pageviews2026-08-21 — 808 pageviews2026-08-25 — 657 pageviews2026-08-29 — 696 pageviews2026-09-02 — 654 pageviews2026-09-06 — 798 pageviews2026-09-10 — 658 pageviews2026-09-14 — 704 pageviews2026-09-18 — 548 pageviews2026-09-22 — 601 pageviews2026-09-26 — 779 pageviews2026-09-30 — 833 pageviews2026-10-04 — 884 pageviews2026-10-07 — 743 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Twitch viewers

37k62026-10-01 05:34 — 15 viewers2026-10-01 14:34 — 92 viewers2026-10-01 21:34 — 10,343 viewers2026-10-02 06:34 — 15 viewers2026-10-02 15:34 — 244 viewers2026-10-03 00:34 — 1,937 viewers2026-10-03 09:34 — 10 viewers2026-10-03 18:34 — 1,531 viewers2026-10-04 03:34 — 116 viewers2026-10-04 12:34 — 31 viewers2026-10-04 21:34 — 1,906 viewers2026-10-05 06:34 — 23 viewers2026-10-05 15:34 — 128 viewers2026-10-05 22:34 — 1,490 viewers2026-10-06 07:34 — 23 viewers2026-10-06 16:34 — 1,568 viewers2026-10-07 01:34 — 307 viewers2026-10-07 10:34 — 17 viewers2026-10-07 19:34 — 806 viewers2026-10-08 04:34 — 25 viewers2026-10-08 13:34 — 40 viewers2026-10-08 22:34 — 471 viewers2026-10-09 07:34 — 8 viewers2026-10-09 16:34 — 79 viewers2026-10-10 01:34 — 276 viewers2026-10-10 10:34 — 28 viewers2026-10-10 19:35 — 2,474 viewers2026-10-11 04:34 — 63 viewers2026-10-11 13:34 — 115 viewers2026-10-11 22:34 — 1,433 viewers2026-10-12 07:34 — 8 viewers2026-10-12 16:34 — 3,296 viewers2026-10-13 01:34 — 182 viewers2026-10-13 10:34 — 34 viewers2026-10-13 19:34 — 2,044 viewers2026-10-14 04:34 — 37 viewers2026-10-14 13:34 — 155 viewers2026-10-14 22:34 — 1,250 viewers2026-10-15 04:34 — 39 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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