Skip to content
indielist (beta)

Garry's Mod vs Iron Lung

Reviews on Steam

Garry's Mod

99.4× more reviews

Critical reception

Garry's Mod

4.9pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Iron Lung

$2.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Garry's Mod

107.1× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Iron Lung

16 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

Iron Lung

2022 · Adventure

David Szymanski · David Szymanski

Reviews
10,767
Positive
92%
Launch price
$7.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
700K
Net rev
$3.2M

Tag overlap

15% shared , 3 shared tags, 17 only on Garry's Mod, 17 only on Iron Lung.

Only Garry's Mod

SandboxModdableMultiplayerPhysicsBuildingCasualFunnySingleplayerFPSSimulationComedyOnline Co-OpCo-opShooterActionPvPRealistic

Shared

First-PersonIndieExploration

Only Iron Lung

HorrorAtmosphericPsychological HorrorSubmarineUnderwaterShortPixel GraphicsMinimalistAdventureSci-fiAbstract3DWalking SimulatorDarkMysteryDystopian Surreal

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

420K to 980K

units (median: 700K)

$1.9M to $4.5M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

420Kmedian980K

How comparison pages work

Verdicts are objective, they call out which game scores higher on a single measurable axis (reviews, price, sales estimate, recency). They don't claim "better." Tag overlap is computed from the public Steam tag list. Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method whose formula is shown in full on each game's page.

Want a comparison that doesn't exist? Browse all games, find two slugs, and concatenate them: /compare/games/<slug-a>/<slug-b>. Both orderings render the same content; we canonicalise to alphabetical for SEO.