Escape the Backrooms vs Garry's Mod
Reviews on Steam
Garry's Mod
9.1× more reviews
Critical reception
Garry's Mod
6.4pp gap
Estimated sales (median)
Garry's Mod
14.2× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Escape the Backrooms
19 years apart
Escape the Backrooms
2025 · Action
- Reviews
- 117,078
- Positive
- 90%
- Launch price
- $9.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 5.3M
- Net rev
- $30.1M
Garry's Mod
2006 · Casual
- Reviews
- 1,070,495
- Positive
- 97%
- Launch price
- $9.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 74.9M
- Net rev
- $427.6M
Tag overlap
45% shared , 9 shared tags, 11 only on Escape the Backrooms, 11 only on Garry's Mod.
Only Escape the Backrooms
HorrorPsychological HorrorSurvival HorrorEscape RoomVRAdventure3DEarly AccessAction-AdventureStealthDungeon Crawler
Shared
MultiplayerOnline Co-OpCo-opFirst-PersonExplorationSingleplayerActionIndieCasual
Only Garry's Mod
SandboxModdablePhysicsBuildingFunnyFPSSimulationComedyShooterPvPRealistic
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
vv1.03.2M to 7.4M
units (median: 5.3M)
≈ $18.0M to $42.1M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
Sales estimate
vv1.045.0M to 104.9M
units (median: 74.9M)
≈ $256.6M to $598.6M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
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