Garry's Mod vs Starbound
Reviews on Steam
Garry's Mod
8.9× more reviews
Critical reception
Garry's Mod
6.8pp gap
Cheaper at launch
Garry's Mod
$5.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Garry's Mod
6.9× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Starbound
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
Starbound
2016 · Action
- Reviews
- 120,582
- Positive
- 90%
- Launch price
- $14.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 10.9M
- Net rev
- $92.9M
Tag overlap
40% shared , 8 shared tags, 12 only on Garry's Mod, 12 only on Starbound.
Only Garry's Mod
ModdablePhysicsCasualFunnyFirst-PersonSingleplayerFPSSimulationComedyShooterPvPRealistic
Shared
SandboxMultiplayerBuildingOnline Co-OpCo-opActionIndieExploration
Only Starbound
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalSpaceAdventureCraftingPixel GraphicsOpen WorldRelaxing2DRPGAtmosphericSci-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
vv1.06.5M to 15.2M
units (median: 10.9M)
≈ $55.8M to $130.1M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
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