Garry's Mod vs Universe Sandbox
Reviews on Steam
Garry's Mod
39.6× more reviews
Critical reception
Garry's Mod
0.4pp gap
Cheaper at launch
Garry's Mod
$20.00 cheaper
Estimated sales (median)
Garry's Mod
34.6× more units (white-box estimate)
More recent
Universe Sandbox
9 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
Universe Sandbox
2015 · Casual
- Reviews
- 27,041
- Positive
- 96%
- Launch price
- $29.99
- Engine
- n/a
- Sales (median)
- 2.2M
- Net rev
- $37.1M
Tag overlap
40% shared , 8 shared tags, 12 only on Garry's Mod, 12 only on Universe Sandbox.
Only Garry's Mod
ModdableMultiplayerBuildingFunnyFirst-PersonFPSComedyOnline Co-OpCo-opShooterActionPvP
Shared
SandboxPhysicsCasualSingleplayerSimulationIndieRealisticExploration
Only Universe Sandbox
SpaceScienceDestructionGod GameEducationEarly AccessRelaxingFamily FriendlyOpen WorldSpace SimSci-fiAtmospheric
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
vv1.01.3M to 3.0M
units (median: 2.2M)
≈ $22.2M to $51.9M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
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