Garry's Mod vs Hyper Light Drifter
Reviews on Steam
Garry's Mod
57.2× more reviews
Critical reception
Garry's Mod
3.9pp gap
Cheaper at launch
Garry's Mod
$10.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Garry's Mod
44.5× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Hyper Light Drifter
10 years apart
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
Hyper Light Drifter
2016 · Action
- Reviews
- 18,724
- Positive
- 93%
- Launch price
- $19.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 1.7M
- Net rev
- $19.2M
Tag overlap
20% shared , 4 shared tags, 16 only on Garry's Mod, 16 only on Hyper Light Drifter.
Only Garry's Mod
SandboxModdableMultiplayerPhysicsBuildingCasualFunnyFirst-PersonFPSSimulationComedyOnline Co-OpCo-opShooterPvPRealistic
Shared
SingleplayerActionIndieExploration
Only Hyper Light Drifter
Pixel GraphicsGreat SoundtrackAtmosphericAdventureDifficultHack and SlashRPG2DColorfulTop-DownPost-apocalypticAction RPGMetroidvaniaSouls-likeFantasySci-fi
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
vv1.045.0M to 104.9M
units (median: 74.9M)
≈ $256.6M to $598.6M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
Sales estimate
vv1.01.0M to 2.4M
units (median: 1.7M)
≈ $11.5M to $26.9M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
How comparison pages work
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