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Garry's Mod vs The Long Dark

Reviews on Steam

Garry's Mod

9.7× more reviews

Critical reception

Garry's Mod

7.8pp gap

Cheaper at launch

Garry's Mod

$10.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Garry's Mod

6.8× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

The Long Dark

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

The Long Dark

2017 · Adventure

Hinterland Studio Inc. · Hinterland Studio Inc.

Reviews
110,190
Positive
89%
Launch price
$19.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
11.0M
Net rev
$125.8M

Tag overlap

40% shared , 8 shared tags, 12 only on Garry's Mod, 12 only on The Long Dark.

Only Garry's Mod

ModdableMultiplayerPhysicsBuildingCasualFunnyFPSComedyOnline Co-OpShooterPvPRealistic

Shared

SandboxFirst-PersonSingleplayerSimulationCo-opActionIndieExploration

Only The Long Dark

SurvivalOpen World Survival CraftOpen WorldAtmosphericAdventureCraftingPost-apocalypticWalking SimulatorSurvival HorrorStrategyDifficultEarly Access

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

6.6M to 15.4M

units (median: 11.0M)

≈ $75.5M to $176.1M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

6.6Mmedian15.4M

How comparison pages work

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