Banished vs Garry's Mod
Reviews on Steam
Garry's Mod
28.4× more reviews
Critical reception
Garry's Mod
6.4pp gap
Cheaper at launch
Garry's Mod
$10.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Garry's Mod
22.1× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Banished
8 years apart
Banished
2014 · Indie
Shining Rock Software LLC · Shining Rock Software LLC
- Reviews
- 37,730
- Positive
- 90%
- Launch price
- $19.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 3.4M
- Net rev
- $38.8M
Garry's Mod
2006 · Casual
- Reviews
- 1,070,685
- Positive
- 97%
- Launch price
- $9.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 74.9M
- Net rev
- $427.7M
Tag overlap
25% shared , 5 shared tags, 15 only on Banished, 15 only on Garry's Mod.
Only Banished
City BuilderColony SimStrategySurvivalMedievalResource ManagementRelaxingEconomyManagementOpen WorldDifficultBeautifulProcedural GenerationHistoricalRTS
Shared
SimulationIndieSingleplayerSandboxBuilding
Only Garry's Mod
ModdableMultiplayerPhysicsCasualFunnyFirst-PersonFPSComedyOnline Co-OpCo-opShooterActionPvPRealisticExploration
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
vv1.02.0M to 4.8M
units (median: 3.4M)
≈ $23.3M to $54.3M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
Sales estimate
vv1.045.0M to 104.9M
units (median: 74.9M)
≈ $256.6M to $598.7M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
How comparison pages work
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