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CastleMiner Z vs Garry's Mod

Reviews on Steam

Garry's Mod

96.2× more reviews

Critical reception

Garry's Mod

15.7pp gap

Cheaper at launch

CastleMiner Z

$4.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Garry's Mod

89.8× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

CastleMiner Z

8 years apart

A

CastleMiner Z

2014 · Action

DigitalDNA Games · DigitalDNA Games

Reviews
11,127
Positive
81%
Launch price
$5.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
835K
Net rev
$2.9M
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

50% shared , 10 shared tags, 10 only on CastleMiner Z, 10 only on Garry's Mod.

Only CastleMiner Z

Open World Survival CraftSurvivalZombiesAdventureOpen WorldCraftingDragonsWalking SimulatorSurvival HorrorHorror

Shared

MultiplayerActionSandboxIndieCo-opFPSShooterFirst-PersonOnline Co-OpPvP

Only Garry's Mod

ModdablePhysicsBuildingCasualFunnySingleplayerSimulationComedyRealisticExploration

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

501K to 1.2M

units (median: 835K)

$1.7M to $4.0M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

501Kmedian1.2M

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

How comparison pages work

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