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Garry's Mod vs Gold Mining Simulator

Reviews on Steam

Garry's Mod

66.2× more reviews

Critical reception

Garry's Mod

24.3pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Garry's Mod

$10.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Garry's Mod

57.9× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Gold Mining Simulator

11 years apart

A

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
B

Gold Mining Simulator

2017 · Indie

Code Horizon · Code Horizon

Reviews
16,167
Positive
73%
Launch price
$19.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
1.3M
Net rev
$14.8M

Tag overlap

50% shared , 10 shared tags, 10 only on Garry's Mod, 10 only on Gold Mining Simulator.

Only Garry's Mod

ModdableMultiplayerPhysicsCasualFPSComedyOnline Co-OpShooterActionPvP

Shared

SandboxBuildingFunnyFirst-PersonSingleplayerSimulationCo-opIndieRealisticExploration

Only Gold Mining Simulator

MiningOpen WorldDrivingEconomyStrategyManagementAutomobile SimAdventureRelaxingDifficult

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

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

Sales estimate

vv1.0

776K to 1.8M

units (median: 1.3M)

$8.9M to $20.7M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

776Kmedian1.8M

How comparison pages work

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