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Amnesia: The Dark Descent vs Garry's Mod

Reviews on Steam

Garry's Mod

53.1× more reviews

Critical reception

Garry's Mod

2.3pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Garry's Mod

$10.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Garry's Mod

41.3× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Amnesia: The Dark Descent

4 years apart

A

Amnesia: The Dark Descent

2010 · Action

Frictional Games · Frictional Games

Reviews
20,154
Positive
95%
Launch price
$19.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
1.8M
Net rev
$20.7M
B

Garry's Mod

2006 · Casual

Facepunch Studios · Valve

Reviews
1,070,495
Positive
97%
Launch price
$9.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
74.9M
Net rev
$427.6M

Tag overlap

30% shared , 6 shared tags, 14 only on Amnesia: The Dark Descent, 14 only on Garry's Mod.

Only Amnesia: The Dark Descent

HorrorGorePsychological HorrorSurvival HorrorAtmosphericPuzzleNudityDarkLovecraftianAdventureStealthWalking SimulatorStory RichSurreal

Shared

First-PersonIndieSingleplayerExplorationActionPhysics

Only Garry's Mod

SandboxModdableMultiplayerBuildingCasualFunnyFPSSimulationComedyOnline Co-OpCo-opShooterPvPRealistic

Sales estimates

Both estimates use the same vv1.0 multi-factor Boxleiter method. Click "How is this calculated?" on either to see the per-factor breakdown.

Sales estimate

vv1.0

1.1M to 2.5M

units (median: 1.8M)

≈ $12.4M to $29.0M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

1.1Mmedian2.5M

Sales estimate

vv1.0

45.0M to 104.9M

units (median: 74.9M)

≈ $256.6M to $598.6M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

45.0Mmedian104.9M

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