Garry's Mod
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CasualIndieSimulationSandboxModdableMultiplayerPhysicsBuilding

Garry's Mod

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.

Developer
Facepunch Studios
Publisher
Valve
Franchise
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Release date
Nov 29, 2006
Store page updated
Apr 22, 2026
Price
−50% $9.99 $4.99 · Steam store ↗

Review Analysis Score

92.0/ 100

Based on 375 reviews from the past 1 year

Steam User Rating
Recent 🤩 Overwhelmingly Positive 97% of 7,306
All time 🤩 Overwhelmingly Positive 97% of 1,265,398
“addictive gameplay, 638 hours played”

How it holds up

−50+5
Gameplay
+2.04
Freedom +4.61
“can build some really wonderful stuff” (99)

🔒 5 more indicators

Story & World
+1.79

Not enough data — only 4% of reviews mention this.

World +2.92

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Content Volume
+4.06
Volume +4.10
“высокая переиграемость, эквивалент всех игр Steam” (9)
游戏可玩性高，买了这款游戏相当于买了所以steam游戏，建议新手无脑入库，真的很好玩，缺点是创意工坊模组可能会有一点难找，但到网上查询就可以找到

🔒 2 more indicators

Visuals & Sound
+1.86

Not enough data — only 5% of reviews mention this.

Visuals +1.12

🔒 1 more indicators

Multiplayer
+2.88
Playing together +3.78
“playing with friends messing around is so much fun” (81)

🔒 1 more indicators

Fairness
-1.76

Not enough data — only 8% of reviews mention this.

Monetization +1.72

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Tech & Ops
-0.26
Performance -0.86
“sometimes stutters, optimization not very good” (22)
游戏很棒 吐槽一下：有时候会很卡顿，优化感觉不是很好。 很棒的地方：这款游戏使我的素质提高了很多，里面的服务器的人都特别友好，而且还有罕见的战术配合，使我的游戏体验感得到很高，强烈推荐超级爱。 而且这个游戏的创意工坊使我爱上建模，我要学建模，我要建可爱白丝小猫娘！

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Scores are the average of reviews that mention each category (−5 to +5). Fainter bars were mentioned by fewer reviews; grey means too few to trust. Tap a category ▾ to see what drives it.

Steam review activity

% positive over time
since launch, by month · major update
90%92%94%96%98%100%
Oct 2010Sep 2026
Reviews
per day · 7,169 reviews, peak 363/day
0250500
Aug 19Sep 16

Steam only gives daily counts for the last 30 days; longer ranges are by month. Months with fewer than 10 reviews are left out of % positive. "Show updates" marks major updates and DLC the developer posted on Steam (since about 2020) — hover a column to see % positive the month before and after.

Review languages

Languages of the 375 reviews we analyzed from the past year — not all Steam reviews.

  • English27%
  • Russian21%
  • Spanish14%
  • Portuguese9%
  • Chinese9%
  • Turkish5%
  • Other15%

🔒 Scores broken down by language — how Russian or Chinese players rate each category — are in the paid dashboard.

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