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Garry's Mod vs The Past Within

Reviews on Steam

Garry's Mod

64.8× more reviews

Critical reception

Garry's Mod

2.1pp gap

Cheaper at launch

The Past Within

$4.00 cheaper

Estimated sales (median)

Garry's Mod

69.8× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

The Past Within

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

The Past Within

2022 · Adventure

Rusty Lake · Rusty Lake

Reviews
16,511
Positive
95%
Launch price
$5.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
1.1M
Net rev
$3.7M

Tag overlap

20% shared , 4 shared tags, 16 only on Garry's Mod, 16 only on The Past Within.

Only Garry's Mod

SandboxModdablePhysicsBuildingCasualFunnyFirst-PersonSingleplayerFPSSimulationComedyShooterActionPvPRealisticExploration

Shared

MultiplayerOnline Co-OpCo-opIndie

Only The Past Within

PuzzleEscape RoomHorrorMysteryPoint & ClickAdventurePsychological HorrorLocal Co-OpStory RichAtmosphericLocal MultiplayerAsynchronous MultiplayerThriller2DSurreal3D

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

644K to 1.5M

units (median: 1.1M)

$2.2M to $5.1M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

644Kmedian1.5M

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